Book #4: Ender's Game
Back Cover:
"Ender's Game is a guaranteed crowd pleaser." --The Globe and Mail
Intense is the word for Ender's Game. Aliens have attacked earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses--and then training them in the arts of war...The early training, not surpisingly, takes the form of 'games.'...Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all the games....He is smart enough to know what time is running out. But is he smart enough to save the planet?" --The New York Times
"Now, in this novel, Card fulfills his early promise...and more." --Ben Bova
My Review:
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a long novel, but it always keeps you guessing. As soon as you feel like Ender’s safe and that he’s happy, the rules of the game changes and you feel just as at risk as Ender does.
Normally, I wouldn’t choose to read a book like this; I’m not a big science fiction fan. I chose to read this book because a few of my very low-level readers chose it for their choice novel selection and I wanted to keep up with them and check up on them. I’m the first to finish, but the others are loving it as well.
Ender’s Game took me a long time to read. At first, I was really into the story and then my desire to read it fell by the wayside. It might have been how busy I was at the time, or how many other books I was reading, or the fact that I was starting to get a little bored. So I set a goal: read one chapter every day; I did it! The penultimate chapter in the book was my favorite, but this trick they played on Ender was a particularly nasty one.
The ending was slightly disappointing, but then again, it isn't really the end as there is another book after Ender's Game. I don't think I'll ever read the next installment of the Ender series, but the first was very good, or at least much better than I thought it was going to be. I would recommend this book to a friend who was really into science fiction, or a teenager. This book was made for science fiction junkies and young adult readers.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Kelly <3