Grad dinner and dance is finished! I am done with high school. Not much else to say, nothing else is going on in my life right now other than getting a $50 dollar gift card to chapters woooo! I bought 3 books that are outside the genre that I normally read so it will be fun.
In order to develop a secure defence against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut-young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders.
Ender’s Game is witty, exciting and has you hooked in from the very start. Thrust into the future, the reader gets snippets of what is going on in the setting but the most vital thing is the buggers: the alien’s that invaded earth twice and almost won. Ender - who is only 6 years old when he is sent off to battle school - has the weight of his entire planet on his shoulders as he is expected to win the last battle.
As he grows up in space, training every day of his life, Ender is tested until it seems he will break. But he is the smartest and most capable, no matter what his age, and no matter how many other older soldiers underestimate him. Orson Scott Card was imaginative in describing the games between armies and his writing really pulled me along. The characters are what really make the story.
The ending comes before you realize it, and even after the climax there is a nice twist. PROPS TO CARD, he did a splendid job once again. I’ll give Ender a 5 OUT OF 5. The movie is coming out soon with Harrison Ford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRizeR4MmU and if you want to check out Orson Scott Card’s website, there you go: http://www.hatrack.com/
Until next time!
-MRR
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