• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Xenocide, from the ender series. Enders game was good. Speaker was OK I guess. Ender was a whiny bitch the entire time but the descolada mystery was interesting. Now that’s solved and he’s still a whiny bitch and then he just solves basically every single problem with his super ai that can do magical space/time bullshit. The worst deus ex machina I have ever laid eyes on. I physically threw the book across the room at one point. I hate leaving books unfinished, so I slogged through the rest at like 5 pages per sitting, rolling my eyes out of my head the whole time.

    I did not finish children of the mind.

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      3 months ago

      I thought ‘Children of the mind’ was good, could have been merged with Xenocide.

      Whatever you do, stay away from ‘The Last Shadow’. What a terrible way to finish a series.

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        3 months ago

        Only read Enders shadow and it was decent. Made me realize that ender was a little bitch all along and not when he left.

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      3 months ago

      Anything with Ender after the first book is terrible. But the series that sticks with the happenings on earth after Enders Game is pretty good. I especially like the book that has Bean from a child through battle school.