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Children of the Mind Ender’s Saga #4 by Orson Scott Card Science Fiction Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) Children of the Mind continues Ender’s journey and that of the people on Path. I enjoyed the book immensely because it shows psychologically how a defenseless planet stopped a deadly invasion.
Ellie the Flower Girl The Critter Club #14 by Callie Barkley Realistic Fiction Review #1 * * * Stars (Pretty good) Ellie has always dreamed of being a flower girl. Well, her dream does come true. Her cousin Hailey asks her to be a flower girl for her wedding. The Critter Club gets a surprising visit from a little French bulldog. Ellie tries hard to find it a home, but she’s having no luck. She … Read more
Where Hope Prevails Return to the Canadian West #3 by Janette Oke Adventure Romance Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Elizabeth Thatcher can’t wait to return to her beloved Coal Valley, after a long summer with her family. Her Mountie Jarrick Thorton has not yet proposed, but she already knows what her answer will be. His duties take him away from Coal Valley so much that he feels he is just starting to … Read more
Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow series #2 by Orson Scott Card Science Fiction Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) Shadow of the Hegemon explains what happens after Ender defeats the Formics and war breaks out on Earth. Peter, having written Locke and Demosthenes, is accepted as Hegemon, which is more of a ceremonial title that has no power.
Ender’s Shadow Shadow series #1 Companion to Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Science Fiction Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) Ender’s Shadow was interesting from beginning to end because it mostly replayed the story of Ender’s Game, but from another boy’s perspective.
Xenocide Ender’s Game #3 by Orson Scott Card Science Fiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) In Xenocide, Ender hopes he has found a sustainable home for the Hive Queen on Lusitania, a rebellious world to the Federation of Planets. Meanwhile, on Path, which is an old Chinese world, the computer program known as Jane, is working with mere civilians to save Lusitania from the Doctor Device, or the Molecular Disruption Device.
Speaker for the Dead Ender’s Game #2 by Orson Scott Card Science Fiction Review #1 * * * Stars (Pretty good) Speaker for the Dead takes you into about one thousand years after Ender’s victory in war, because he is traveling at relativistic speeds trying to find a new home for the Hive Queen of the alien race he vanquished. The book is very predictable because each vignette includes Ender Speaking someone’s funeral as a … Read more
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Science Fiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Ender’s Game was interesting because of the way it viewed the psychological aspects of children when subjected to war versus an alien race. The only reason I didn’t give the book five stars is because the end of the story got drab and boring very quickly. Overall, Ender’s Game was a good book, possibly worthy of 4 1/2 stars.
Illuminae Illuminae Files #1 by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller * * * * Stars (Great!) Kady breaks up with her boyfriend Ezra just hours before their world (a secret mining colony on Kerenza) is attacked by outside corporate interest BeiTech. They manage to put their differences aside long enough to survive and escape, but they end up on different ships. Kady finds herself on the Hypatia, while Ezra is conscripted into … Read more
Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough Biography Juvenile Nonfiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Rosa Parks was an amazing woman who stood up for what she believed in. One day when she was on a bus, the bus driver told her to move to give her seat to another man on the bus. Rosa Parks replied, “NO.” So the bus driver called the police. She was put in jail not … Read more