Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.

Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.

I thought it was better than the previous book in the series (Xenocide), but this book was nothing special.

Orson Scott Card completes this complex saga by taking it from the tactical and emotional logic of its roots, to an all out orgasm of philosophical and metaphysical speculation. This does make things fun, but unlike the previous books where it was easy to follow where things where going due to Card's habit of hashing each tiny bit of logic out, here you have to swallow a lot of far-out concepts. I couldn't do that with all of this, so I felt a little less invested than I had in the past.

There's also the problem that after said orgasm, things dissolve into a whole lot of fluffy pillow talk. I know Card has never been exactly a gritty writer, I don't read his books for that, but the fact that things finish so damn prettily and the two major pairings wed with only sharing a single kiss respectively, just makes me want to roll my eyes. I think there is a reason why Card's most famous - and probably his best, though I haven't read anything else outside of the Ender series - book was about children.

So I'm pretty conflicted about this book. Parts I really enjoyed, others I really didn't. And as a whole it left me feeling kind of awkward.

Ok, this one was the last nail in the coffin. The basic idea is that Ender was sort of cloned twice, and now there is an evil and a good copy of his. The problem is that all characters act the same. I know these clones are a part of Ender, but it felt pointless to have such an elaborate story just for that.

The story was very boring. Even form the previous book, the whole thing with Novinha acting all religiously, and Ender himself converting to religion was a slap in the face for me.