Author: Orson Scott Card
Book Series: Ender's Saga (book 3 of 9 total works)
Reading Level: Young Adult (YA) (but it felt like an adult book to me)
My Rating: 3/5 Stars
Content Rating: PG-13 for some language and mature themes
Tidbit: When humans feel threatened by the happenings on the faraway planet of Lusitania, they send a device to destroy the whole planet and all species on it. Andrew "Ender Wiggins" and others on Lusitania must find a way to prevent this xenocide.
On
the planet of Lusitania, a human colony has begun to build. They
discovered a sentient species there, one with whom they also eventually
discovered they could communicate and come to understand. This species
is called the pequeninos, because they are small pig-like animals. The
survival of the pequenino species depends on a virus the humans call the
descolada. While it is vital for the pequeninos to live and reproduce,
it's detrimental to humans. The only way the humans have survived being
infected by the virus is by consuming food with antivirals in it daily.
But the virus is smart and adapts quickly. It's only a matter of time
before the virus can mutate faster than the humans can create a new
antidote. As such, the humans in the Starways Congress have decided to
destroy Lusitania to protect the rest of humanity from the descolada. A
fleet has been dispatched with a device that will wipe out the planet
and every living creature on it. Now those on Lusitania, humans and
pequeninos alike with some help from the Buggers, the species which
Ender almost annihilated 3000 years previously, must race against time
to find a way to destroy the descolada without destroying the pequeninos
AND prove that the Starways Congress has been responsible for it all.
This book is very philosophical. Which I should have known after reading book 2. That's not a bad thing. It just requires more thought than I was ready to give it. So many things to think about regarding relationships and science, and I think there are a lot of religious overtones as well. The author has a gift for creating a very complex story. The details are phenomenal. And there's some convoluted kind of stuff. Like I couldn't even begin to describe it all here because it's kind of crazy.
Now to decide if I should read the 4th in the series (according to publication date)... if I do, it won't be any time soon. My brain is tired.
This book is very philosophical. Which I should have known after reading book 2. That's not a bad thing. It just requires more thought than I was ready to give it. So many things to think about regarding relationships and science, and I think there are a lot of religious overtones as well. The author has a gift for creating a very complex story. The details are phenomenal. And there's some convoluted kind of stuff. Like I couldn't even begin to describe it all here because it's kind of crazy.
Now to decide if I should read the 4th in the series (according to publication date)... if I do, it won't be any time soon. My brain is tired.
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