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Title: An irritating slog
Review: Like most ever other reviewer here, I read the entire Ender's series up through this book. While Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are outstanding books (five star worthy), Xenocide and Children of the Mind are simply irritating. I despised all the characters, who were so self-centered and so completely flawed you have no connection to them to care whether they die or live, and can't conceive they could succeed at anything. Page after page of characters contemplating their relationships with the other characters makes for a very boring read, and I found myself skimming much of the book. *spoiler* Without Ender, who essentially withdrawls from the narrative to have a relationship with his angry-at-the-world wife, there are simply no sympathetic or interesting characters that you really care about. But hey, at least I read all four books.
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