mike129 's review for:

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

4.0

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Speaker for the Dead is the 2nd book in the Ender's Saga/Ender's Game trilogy. Interestingly, this was the book the author was actually focused on writing. Ender's Game, the more popular of the two, was really just a sort of prelude to this book. That said, these two books are really quite different reads. Ender's Game strikes me as more classic Sci-Fi, where this book seems to be more mainstream fiction. The result is that many people really impressed with Ender's Game can feel let down by Speaker for the Dead. I think they are both very good books for fairly different reasons.