This book was a fantastic ending to the series. There were a good number of twists that I didn’t see coming, but had been shown as building up the entire time. I really enjoyed the book, mainly for the story. I found a good number of the characters to be a little shallow and immature. Only a few had good development and those that did didn’t have much about them really change. They simply became more of what they were at the beginning of the story. I greatly appreciate the work that went into the world building and especially the lore building. Unlike many of the worlds that have been build before this world has a lot of the change in the stories. The real events got lost and changed with time.
This book has everything starting to come together. The action starts to focus on Southmarch, and things start going very wrong. Most of the big reveals have happened by this point, and now it is just resolution from here on out. I enjoy the stories of the non-humans much more than the humans. Most humans in this story are very immature.
The story really takes off in this book, with characters being spread all over the world. The world also goes through a lot of building where the gods are concerned. The stories of the gods are really well done in that there are multiple versions that have gone through many changes over time. There were revolutions and people bent the dogma to their own needs, making the topic of the gods in the stories change from place to place, even though it was all based on real events that happened thousands of years before. I also like that things older than the gods are alluded to, but not discussed in detail.
This book is quite good, but the characters are a little shallow. There isn’t too much changing about them, and they don’t seem terribly human. The story however is very good. I like the interactions between the races in the world, and the way the gods are displayed. They are Olympian style with the gods having very human drives.
This is out of the Ringworld universe, but doesn’t touch on Ringwold itself. The story is focused on the point in Earth history that the PAC renews contact with Earth. Some of the humans become protectors and then have to prepare for the PAC invasion. The story is decent, but the world building in the series is what this book is really about.
This book was just as good as the first one, if not better. The world is greatly expanded in this one and the story progresses in an unpredictable, but wonderful way. I really enjoy where the action is going and the way the world is coming together. I really hope that some of the big questions in the world will be answered at the end of the last book, but I fully expect there to be a huge lingering question at the end of the series with just a small part of the curtain pulled back. I don’t expect all the answers, but a few of them would be nice. I expect no big resolution.
This is one of the best stories and best written books I’ve ever read. One of the ways I can tell how much I like the book is how much I’m willing to do other stuff while listening. With this book there was very little I was able to do while listening, since I was so taken in by the world that was being built and the story that was being told. I can’t wait for the last book to come out so that I can finish the series.
This was a very interesting collection of short stories. The meeting of Ender’s parents was quite good. I liked the parity that my life has to it. The version of Ender’s game in this was much less mature and didn’t have some of the really psychological parts to it. The meeting of Ender and Jane was also a good story. I liked the part about the tax collector, and how Ender’s holdings just wouldn’t stop scrolling. This wasn’t the best of the Ender series, but it also wasn’t the worst.
This was a cute short story about a fundamentalist Christian at battle school in the Ender universe. He gets picked on and then is brought out of his shell by Ender. The story was cute, but not anything special.
It's an Exciting World 