Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed on 4/21/2015 + 350 more book reviews

Ender is a six year old genius who gets picked out to join a battle school in order to be trained for war against the Buggers, which are basically giant alien bugs. The story focuses on what his training is like and the relationships he forms or wishes he could form with his peers and teachers. Most of the story reminds me of laser tag with no gravity and with certain extra functions mixed with football. I think the author seemed to dwell too much on Ender's time at battle school, as the story was interesting in the beginning and near the end of this time in battle school and going into the story about Valentine and Peter, the siblings of Ender as well as the later portion of the book when he gets transferred elsewhere. The overall plot in this book is wrestling with how to treat people and others. It was well done. I did watch the film a year and a half ago and will say that I liked the movie better (rare for me to admit).

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