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A review by delijha711
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
2.0
So I definitely read this out of the correct order so I had to go back and figure out what happened in Ender's Game.
I felt like this book was unnecessary and a tad tedious to the actual story but I still enjoyed it nonetheless. I liked that we saw more of Peter and Val's weird relationship. With her gone and traveling with Ender, Peter was alone and did ridiculous things. I did enjoy it showing that the parents are so much more than what was portrayed by Ender, Val and Peter. They were incredibly smart in their own right.
Quincy is a pretentious dick plain and simple and there is no real need to say anything else about that guy.
Ender I felt, even though we learn more about his character and who he is when he's young...I don't like who he is. He only sees people as pieces on a board he can play and I just feel that takes away from his humanness and makes him feel like a robot. He's also just has this, "better than thou" attitude about him. For example, when he meets with Verlomy (I don't remember how to spell her name) he shames her for wanting to get rid of Randall, the pain in the ass kid from her colony. He isn't the character from the other stories, he's an asshole. He's the guy that knows they're smarter than everyone else and let's no one forget but then has the nerve to be like, "well I'm not doing anything but saying the truth" I don't really like him anymore in this book.
And the whole thing with Randall and him being like a secret child was honestly the most annoying and repetitive storyline I've ever heard. Ender is so freaking annoying with his suicide mission and wanting to be like mightier than thou.
And he was pissing me off with Valentine. Like she knew what he was doing. Like there relationship is super weird in this book and I am not a fan. I am disappointed honestly, like I feel like it didn't make any of the characters more likeable or even humanize them. It made Ender seem more "god-like" than he actual was and introduced characters that really make no difference.
So in the whole span of things, in the Ender Universe, yes of course I wondered what Ender did during those years he was looking for a place for the new HIve Queen but I feel like the not knowing made the story better, it made Ender that much more mysterious of a character but still a character that was relatable and understanding of people and their circumstances. The Ender in this book was only looking at people as pawns. And maybe he was doing that in other books as well, but in this one, it was so much more prevalant that it took away from the good that was Ender.
Not horrible book but I don't think this book is needed nor do people need to read it for the original series.
I felt like this book was unnecessary and a tad tedious to the actual story but I still enjoyed it nonetheless. I liked that we saw more of Peter and Val's weird relationship. With her gone and traveling with Ender, Peter was alone and did ridiculous things. I did enjoy it showing that the parents are so much more than what was portrayed by Ender, Val and Peter. They were incredibly smart in their own right.
Quincy is a pretentious dick plain and simple and there is no real need to say anything else about that guy.
Ender I felt, even though we learn more about his character and who he is when he's young...I don't like who he is. He only sees people as pieces on a board he can play and I just feel that takes away from his humanness and makes him feel like a robot. He's also just has this, "better than thou" attitude about him. For example, when he meets with Verlomy (I don't remember how to spell her name) he shames her for wanting to get rid of Randall, the pain in the ass kid from her colony. He isn't the character from the other stories, he's an asshole. He's the guy that knows they're smarter than everyone else and let's no one forget but then has the nerve to be like, "well I'm not doing anything but saying the truth" I don't really like him anymore in this book.
And the whole thing with Randall and him being like a secret child was honestly the most annoying and repetitive storyline I've ever heard. Ender is so freaking annoying with his suicide mission and wanting to be like mightier than thou.
And he was pissing me off with Valentine. Like she knew what he was doing. Like there relationship is super weird in this book and I am not a fan. I am disappointed honestly, like I feel like it didn't make any of the characters more likeable or even humanize them. It made Ender seem more "god-like" than he actual was and introduced characters that really make no difference.
So in the whole span of things, in the Ender Universe, yes of course I wondered what Ender did during those years he was looking for a place for the new HIve Queen but I feel like the not knowing made the story better, it made Ender that much more mysterious of a character but still a character that was relatable and understanding of people and their circumstances. The Ender in this book was only looking at people as pawns. And maybe he was doing that in other books as well, but in this one, it was so much more prevalant that it took away from the good that was Ender.
Not horrible book but I don't think this book is needed nor do people need to read it for the original series.