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A review by tchowbella
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
4.0
Somehow this one seems much more melodramatic than its predecessors…not so compelling to me, but this may be appropriate as Ender looks at his three thousandth or so year of living experience. I usually don’t let a book sit this long, though!
Update: I ended up listening to most of this on Audible instead of reading. The absolute best part of the “book” was OSC explaining his intentions with this novel, plopping _Ender’s Game_ into the role of being the Intro to this work.
By the end, I was impressed with the scale of character development and removing long-term relations between human and non-human intelligent life from what we’ve seen in the movies. The author’s afterword also explains why there is so much Brazilian language and Catholicism in the novel.
Update: I ended up listening to most of this on Audible instead of reading. The absolute best part of the “book” was OSC explaining his intentions with this novel, plopping _Ender’s Game_ into the role of being the Intro to this work.
By the end, I was impressed with the scale of character development and removing long-term relations between human and non-human intelligent life from what we’ve seen in the movies. The author’s afterword also explains why there is so much Brazilian language and Catholicism in the novel.