![]() ![]() What it really comes down to, though, is that these are my comfort books. ![]() ![]() So, the story arc isn't completed in Xenocide. Card has written that the final installment of his original series got too long and so was split into two books - Xenocide and Children of the Mind. I agree that this isn't one of the strongest of the Ender series. But if you think of it as the first in a two-part novel, then you'll likely be dying to get your hands on the next part of the story when you finish. If you think of it as a stand-alone book, you may be disappointed. The ending of this book ties up some threads of the story, but not all of them. Note, however, that, as the author himself mentions in a short commentary at the end, this book is actually the first of a two part series (the next book is "Children of the Mind"). Yet it is also very much its own new and wonderful story, and not at all just a revisit to the same old themes of the first two books. Xenocide is told with the same passion as Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, and it is filled with just as much emotion and understanding. In addition to making you think, it also makes you feel. But the philosophy in the book serves a purpose to move the story forward and develop characters more. Xenocide is perhaps the most overtly philosophical of the Ender Wiggin series so far. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |