A review by protoman21
Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card

4.0

A great start to a new series in the Ender Universe! I immediately connected with the characters and the world that Card and Johnston have fleshed out for the die hard Ender fans. You can tell that these are the events that lead to his story without it being predictable and boring because of it. The characters and events on El Cavador drew me in the most, but I liked getting to see Lem's perspective as well. Wit's story felt completely disconnected from the rest of the story of space mining and the threat of the alien spaceship, so that partially led me to care about it a little less and be disappointed when one of his chapters came up. It almost felt like Card was trying to slip a few chapters of his Empire series into his Ender series. I'm excited to see more of Mazer, so that too was a disappointment that he was only briefly in one chapter and then dismissed. Overall I am excited with the beginning of this series and where it is going. I think I'll like it even more once all parties start to interact with each other.