Ender's Game, A Review about the book (mostly)

Ender's Game
By: Orsan Scott Card
My Rating: 4.5/5 Loved it, will probably read again


This book seems a little intimidating at first, science fiction, space travel, and aliens.  No thanks, I would normally skip over that one.  To be honest, I only picked it up after watching the movie.   My boyfriend actually let me borrow his copy of it after he read it and said it was extremely good, and even better than the movie.  So that got me thinking "huh, I wonder how the book compares to movie."

The first thought I had was "wait, the kids are six?! I don't think they were that young in the movie!"  The answer is no, they did not show them that young.   They start off in battle school, training to fight an inevitable return attack by the Buggers, an alien species that almost wiped out humanity the first round. All of the kids grew up watching videos of the final battle with the Buggers. Then finally a heroic fighter pilot sacrificed him and his fighter jet to blow up the "mother ship" hoping that would put an end to the bloodshed.

Ender is a third child, which was unheard of, during the time in the books and was very uncommon.  Ender grows up before our eyes, and rather quickly.  He is so smart for only being six (must have something to do with being a special third child) and outsmarts bullies that are way larger than him.  His siblings, Valentine and Peter both went to the battle school Ender is in.  Peter failed out for being too quick to turn to violence and Valentine didn't make the cut because she was too kind.

The movie left out most of the subplot about Valentine and Peter, which I understand, but it is a shame.  For kids they are both highly intelligent and think like adults.  They were honestly two of my favorite characters in the whole series. 

With so much action, and a young unknowing hero, I couldn't put this book down and flew threw it.  So if you think this book it too intimidating, like me, just give it a chance!  You may just be surprised, I know I was.

Stephanie 




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