These books are too addicting.
I promise I am not going to read the next one. It’s keeping me up at night.
This is the next in the series after Ender’s Shadow. Instead of battling aliens in space, the genius kids are now back on Earth, fighting the evil schemer whose one ambition is to rule the world. Such an original theme…
The story is very exciting, with kidnappings, treachery, and murders centered around world politics and military strategies. A lot is said about honor, vanity, good and evil, life and death….a nun willing to sacrifice herself for an orphan, parents letting go of their children to serve a greater good, soldiers giving their lives for their commander…the book is full of action, and along the way makes a few good philosophical statements about life.
China and America do not look good in this book.
I recommend not reading this book at bedtime. You won’t be able to put it down to go to sleep.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
[…] said I wouldn’t read another one, but it was available in the library, I couldn’t […]