A review by craftingrama
Earthborn by Orson Scott Card

3.0

If you have ever read the Bible and the book of Mormon, then listening or reading this series will give your brain a serious slap. I have trouble giving this series a good rating simply because if this had been done with any other books there would have been such screaming of plagarism so loud that the books would have been buried and never to see the light of day again. What Card has done is taking the 2 books and cut out and mixed up all the stories of the bible and the book of momon, changed names added a space ship and 2 planets, added a few pages of storyline to create cohesion of the new set up and is selling it as a new creation. Crikey I could have done the same but have to admit I have serious problems with doing that to the bible and its against the law of doing it with any other book. I seriously doubt Card could have spent all that much time writing this as so much of it was stolen out of those 2 books and since he is supposedly a strong mormon then he would have had to have intimate knowledge of both books to the point of almost total memorization. The extreme family drama he goes into actually kind of ruins it and adds too much make work that it almost causes you to glaze over while listening to it. I want to read a book that gives me escape and enjoyment not a bunch family fights similar to far too many I've been a part of or listened to over the many years of my life.