Xenocide - Orson Scott Card

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Title: Xenocide (Ender's Saga #3)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: 2/5
# pages: 562
Date read: May, 2013

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.

On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, and a second xenocide seems inevitable.

Unfortunately a huge disappointment, and so this will be my last attempt to give the Ender Saga another chance. It read more like a philosophy essay than like a sci-fi novel, and while it did manage to get me interested at last, it wasn't until page 300-something... which is just too late.

There were just too many unsympathetic people. I liked Qing-jao at first, but she grew increasingly unlike-able as the book went along, and Quara, Grego and Novinha just got on my nerves something fierce.

So two stars because it did keep me entertained at times, but not enough for me to bother with more books in the series. I did like "Ender's Shadow" well enough that I might try more of the companion novels though.