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A review by sarahanne8382
Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card
3.0
I have such conflicting feelings about Orson Scott Card. I loved Ender's Game & Speaker for the Dead as well as the beginning of the Shadow series, but it's been clear for some time that Card's just milking the cash cow of the Enderverse for all it's worth. And don't even get me started on his politics.
Still this was better than most of his more recent Ender books (Shadows in Flight, Ender in Exile, A War of Gifts, etc.) and shows some promise for an entertaining series detailing The First Formic War. I did this on audio, which is really the best way to experience these because they're done so well, so that might also explain why I'm in such a charitable mood about the book.
The other reason I'm cautiously optimistic for this series is that I like what appear to be the two main characters, Victor Delgado, a bright 17-year-old apprentice mechanic on a Free Miner ship deep in the Kuiper Belt, and Lem Jukes, heir to the Jukes mining fortune, currently out in space testing an exciting new mining tool, and trying to escape from the his ruthless father's shadow. Card is at his best writing bright adolescents like Victor, as well as people who need to solve difficult problems. As the first humans to spot the first Formic ships, Victor and Lem definitely have some challenges to overcome.
Still this was better than most of his more recent Ender books (Shadows in Flight, Ender in Exile, A War of Gifts, etc.) and shows some promise for an entertaining series detailing The First Formic War. I did this on audio, which is really the best way to experience these because they're done so well, so that might also explain why I'm in such a charitable mood about the book.
The other reason I'm cautiously optimistic for this series is that I like what appear to be the two main characters, Victor Delgado, a bright 17-year-old apprentice mechanic on a Free Miner ship deep in the Kuiper Belt, and Lem Jukes, heir to the Jukes mining fortune, currently out in space testing an exciting new mining tool, and trying to escape from the his ruthless father's shadow. Card is at his best writing bright adolescents like Victor, as well as people who need to solve difficult problems. As the first humans to spot the first Formic ships, Victor and Lem definitely have some challenges to overcome.