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A review by forloveoflit_
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
3.0
It’s taken me nearly 5 years to read this book if that’s any indication. I’ve started it about 4 different times and even this time I had to start it and 6 months later come back to finish it. I don’t even want to think about how long it will take me to read the last one.
Enough about the time though, while the book isn’t necessarily boring the concepts it tries to convey about physics, reality, and religion in combination with 3 alien species is enough to give you a headache when tried to swallow all at one time. It gives oddly discomforting closure to Enders story after his 3000+ literal years of life but his depression and sadness at the end with no hope for a better ending seems like a terrible way to treat someone so great and terrible even if he is only a literary character.
Like many I’ve come to love Ender through his complicated fictional brilliance and ability to love even his enemies and it was sad to me that his story should come to an end like this but I guess I will seek closure in the Children of the Mind.
Enough about the time though, while the book isn’t necessarily boring the concepts it tries to convey about physics, reality, and religion in combination with 3 alien species is enough to give you a headache when tried to swallow all at one time. It gives oddly discomforting closure to Enders story after his 3000+ literal years of life but his depression and sadness at the end with no hope for a better ending seems like a terrible way to treat someone so great and terrible even if he is only a literary character.
Like many I’ve come to love Ender through his complicated fictional brilliance and ability to love even his enemies and it was sad to me that his story should come to an end like this but I guess I will seek closure in the Children of the Mind.