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Title: Mediocrity in a book...
Review: This book just left me wanting a little bit more. The conflicts seemed contrived, the deceptions were weak and thinly veiled, and the twist was not really a twist at all but was pretty obviously there all along.It might be possibly because I'm used to relatively intricate plots and developed characterizations and the author admittedly states the story is kept simple. Perhaps it's because I read this book over 20 years after it was released. It does have its good points, and I am a fan of Card's other works, but this one just kind of felt... juvenile.The best part of the book was after the climatic "twist", when Ender goes out and about. That part seemed to be the most intriguing part of the book, since there actually seemed like there would be drama and conflict instead of just Ender conquering obstacle after obstacle.Perhaps, it's the Superman syndrome. It is difficult to make a story interesting when the protagonist is basically, admitterdly, undefeatable.
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