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Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

4.2 AVERAGE

mthibodeau1999's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This is truly one of the better science fiction books I have ever read. It covers a lot of ground and really leaves you thinking a lot about life, and trust, and humanity, and what is right. There is a part in the book you get to where it is such an emotional gut-punch that I had to put the book down and just stare at the wall the first time I read it. I absolutely love this book - I love Ender's creativity, his free-thinking, his strategy about how he approaches situations, and his emotional intelligence. I highly recommend this book to anyone, but if you are into military science fiction or aliens, then this is definitely the book for you!

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lathas's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

investedchickens's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

josephmosby's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

ookamiunleashed's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jschosh's review against another edition

4.0

I read this book in 9th grade for school and recently reread it because a) I had just seen the movie and it sparked my interest again and b) it's one of my friend's favorite books and he had it on hand. Despite really enjoying the novel, as with the first time I read it, it disturbed me. The excessive violence, cruel mind games, and depression of the main character seeped through the pages and into my personal life.

The real winner of this book was the plot. Both the main one focusing on Ender, and the side one following his brother and sister, were what kept me reading. Also, crazily enough, Card basically predicted worldwide internet forums (I mean this book was written 1985, years before the world wide web was even proposed) and modern tablets.

I've been warned the other books in this series are super weird but eh I think I'll give them a try anyway.