Ender's Game

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I wish that Goodreads had a "listened to" option because I always feel like it is a little misleading to say that I read something when actually I listened to it. Just a little random note.

I am pretty sure that this is the first science fiction novel that I've ever been able to finish. Not that I've tried a whole lot of science fiction, mind you. But it really hasn't been a genre that I've been into. I have read one other Orson Scott Card novel, and I did not like it at all, and I wonder if I had read Ender's Game (as opposed to listening to it) I would have liked it as much. I don't know. I think dramatic readings can inform your opinion of a novel. As in some readers are better than others, and I liked the readers, mostly (the female reader was tooooooo much for me). I'm just saying that I wonder if the readers helped me enjoy the story more than if I had simply read it. Wow, I'm such a rambler.

In any case, I'm not going to say much more here because enough has been said about it already, and almost everyone I know has read this. I'm super behind in the game. But, I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the story, especially the dystopian themes. In fact, I would say that I liked it more for its dystopian elements than I did for its sci-fi elements.

The ending was a bit odd, though. Perhaps I just had certain expectations because this is a series. Now I'm curious to read more because I do wonder where the rest of the story will go.


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