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A review by professorfate
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
3.0
This book continues the adventures of Ender Wiggin from the novel "Ender's Game." Ender has won the war (even though he didn't know he was actually fighting--he thought it was just a war game on a computer), and now the troops that he commanded are all headed home. However, his return is problematic. Some people want to see him tried as a war criminal, some argue that if he returns home to America that America would then become too powerful. So he decides to exile himself to one of the new colonies that are being established on the formic worlds (the worlds formerly occupied by the beings that Ender wiped out in the previous war).
This is the third novel of Card's that I've read, and I'm finding that, while his stories are interesting, there is something in his prose that makes the journey through the book like a ride in a car with a badly-knocking engine. Sometimes, it is that he just keeps hammering on a point long after this reader has gotten it. Sometimes, it seems as though he is moving along nicely and all of the sudden, the novel stalls out. This is how it feels to me, anyway.
This is the third novel of Card's that I've read, and I'm finding that, while his stories are interesting, there is something in his prose that makes the journey through the book like a ride in a car with a badly-knocking engine. Sometimes, it is that he just keeps hammering on a point long after this reader has gotten it. Sometimes, it seems as though he is moving along nicely and all of the sudden, the novel stalls out. This is how it feels to me, anyway.