A review by mithrilreads
Visitors by Orson Scott Card

3.0

Honestly, the attraction of most books is the beginning. All the possiblities. Weird stuff happens, where is is going? what does it mean? The end of most series is a bit of a downer - esp. is they are the dystopian genre where you always know there is something over the fence. The first two books in this series were full of youthful imagination and included far more than just one 'wall' because its of course sci fi and not dystopian per se. However this third edition had an entirely different flavor and it had equal things to enjoy and disappoint. I enjoyed the bildungsroman (sp?) flavor of Umbo and Rigg/Noxon. I saw almost no growth whatsoever in the female characters. I know OSC generally writes from a male point of view and at least tries to put females in the book. Param ends up as Queen-in-the-Tent and the blind woman is intelligent. But other than that they have little to no role - except needing rescued and married. That's a disappointment. However as the two main characters were Rigg and Umbo essentially and Param was peripheral to the book, the lessons about life in general were still good. The end was duplicitous to say the least and I'm trying not to include spoilers. Enjoy, the end was ... too wrapped up. But like Orson Scott Card who struggled to invent an ending I am not going to put any of my brainpower into inventing a different ending myself.