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A review by suburban_ennui
Empire by Orson Scott Card
2.0
"Who are you, and what have you done with Orson Scott Card?"
This book was a real disappointment, although it does seem to have been diminishing returns with Card for some time now. (Stop writing Ender/Bean books, and finish the Alvin Maker series would you.) Books like "Ender's Game", the excellent "Homecoming" series and the early Alvin Maker books have given way to increasingly preachy, moralistic tales. Which would be fine - an author's politics don't really affect my enjoyment of their work, usually - if the quality of the actual writing hadn't sunk so much. Card's characters now just seem like mouthpieces for his own political statements. There's no descriptive prose, no details, nothing to make you *care* about these people.
(sigh)
This book was a real disappointment, although it does seem to have been diminishing returns with Card for some time now. (Stop writing Ender/Bean books, and finish the Alvin Maker series would you.) Books like "Ender's Game", the excellent "Homecoming" series and the early Alvin Maker books have given way to increasingly preachy, moralistic tales. Which would be fine - an author's politics don't really affect my enjoyment of their work, usually - if the quality of the actual writing hadn't sunk so much. Card's characters now just seem like mouthpieces for his own political statements. There's no descriptive prose, no details, nothing to make you *care* about these people.
(sigh)