Earth Unaware

A "short" story in addition to the Ender's Game saga, Earth Unaware takes place during The First Formic War. This book follows a boy named Victor Delgado on a ship on El Cavador in the Kuiper Belt, a mining ship with a big family trying to make money. Through the "Eye" a way of seeing where ships, and asteroids are in space, one of the ship members sees a mysterious unidentifiable object deep in space, coming faster than humanly possible at that time. When it got closes enough they discover it's an alien species directly towards Earth...

What I Liked About It:
It is faster moving than most of the other Ender's Game books, and more fun to read because it takes place in a different time period than most of the other books. It also switched between three different characters, which makes it very different.

What I Didn't Like It:
Like I said, it mostly focus's on Victor, but it does switch to 2 other characters rarely. I do wish they expanded more on the other 2 characters also.

Shadows in Flight

It's a new life for Bean and his three children in space. they are in isolation from the rest of the human race. not like any humans would know who they are, anyway. While they have only aged 6 years, the human race has aged 421 years. The only reason they are in space is the hope of the people on Earth to find a cure for Anton's Key. But as so much time passed, nobody on Earth is even working on the matter. Did I mention how brilliant the kids are? The Giant (Bean) is so weak that he spends all doing work from a room, because of his size. His daughter, Bella (nicknamed Carlotta) maintains the ship, Andrew (Ender) works on research for Anton's Key, and Cinncanatus (Sargeant) does...well I don't know what he does. Together they work on the ship and...bond?...I guess.

What I liked:

I liked the personalities of the kids, but I also like seeing Bean as a father figure. From every other book, he is the kid getting his hands dirty, and messing around. But he passed that baton on to his kids.

What I didn't like:

I didn't like how different it was. There was no war strategy, no politics, no nothin'! I understand they aren't on Earth, but those aspects was what I liked most.

Shadow of The Giant

Throughout this novel, chaos strikes everywhere. Petra and Bean go try to find their "babies" who were taken to other families. I put quotes around babies because these are more than just regular children at that age. From the results of Bean getting genetically modified as a baby, he will never physically stop growing. The down side to this is that as he gets to be HUGE the Earth's gravity will pull so much force on him that he will die at a very young age, but since he never stops growing, his brain continues to get larger and larger making him smarter than anyone else. Back to the "babies", Bean and Petra tracked down all of the babies who were lost and given to other parents. After determining which one of the babies had Anton's Key passed down genetically, Bean and Petra had to make a tough decision. Take Bean and the other Anton's Key babies to space at near light speed in hope of finding a cure, or stay on Earth and die at the age of 20. They decide to go to space, and because of how fast they are going, Earth is aging 85 times faster than they are.

What I like:

I liked the emotions flowing throughout the whole book. There were many places in the story that had me wondering what was going to happen. I also like the ending. Yes, it made me cry but it was the most intense ending to a book I have ever read,

Shadow Puppets

The third book in the "Ender's Shadow" series was my favorite so far. It is so cool to watch the characters get older and change personalities. Since Bean learned he had "Anton's Key" that's really all he thinks about. I mean, if I had it that's what I would think about.

Since the Formics were destroyed by Ender, the battle school kids go back to an Earth in turmoil. China and Russia are trying to take over surrounding countries, and Ender's "Jeesh" have to stop it from happening.

What I liked about it:

The books in the series are not always full of action, but they're never boring. They are full of battle strategy and I love the characters. I won't give away anything but the ending was the best part.

What I don't like:

Sometimes in the story I don't know what they are talking about. For Example "Caliph." I never knew what that meant but after reading about it for a while i figured it out. It's also good to have someone in your class reading them too.

Ender's Shadow

WOW! And I thought no book could compare to "Ender's Game"! This meandering storyline made me stay up late at night to read it. "Ender's Shadow" is a companion novel to "Ender's Game". It takes place at the same place and time, but it is in the perspective of Ender's right hand man, Bean. This short boy was named after his size. But it was definately not named after his intelligence. He is probably the second or maybe the smartest kid at Training School, and when he enters Ender's (Dragon) army. With Ender and Bean on the same army they blow up the scoreboards leaving every other army in the dust. Together they take on challenges, but can they save humanity?

What I Liked About It:

Like "Ender's Game" the kids are amazing. They may be 10 but they act and talk like they're a college professor. Also it amazes me how much humanity and the teachers at the school rely on these 7-12 year olds!

What I Didn't Like About It:

I really liked everything about this book but i guess i might be able to think of something...OH YEAH! The only thing I don't like about this book is Graff. He is a very important character in the book but I really don't like him as a character.

Ender's Game

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a six year old with a wild life ahead of him. The I.F. battle school w3hich trains kids for to fight against the buggers, and alien species that hass attacked them before. The battle school, only picks the smartest kids in the world to come and train. Ender is one of them. They learn everything they would normally learn at a school on Earth, but in addition they learn how to fight in zero-gravity conditions. Each student is assinged an army that they will learn and train with. And that is just the beginning of this story.

Something I like about it is how you really feel the emotions of the characters. You could tell easily that Orson Scott Card loved writing it. All the sentences flowed together perfectly. The other thing I liked is how he had the most intelligent people in the story. Most books I read that have the main characters as kids, make the children have them looking to the adults, for advice. Int this book it's kids, that are making their own decisions.

Somethings I don't like about it, was that in the beginning not a whole lot of action happened. It was more of an emotional part. It did help you know the character more, but I don't think that he needed to have so much of the story be on that. Just like I wrote in the Mockingjay post, Orson Scott Card, made the character not the mos lovable person. He did go through a lot so I understand why Ender was like that.

I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THE NEXT ONE'S!