ender in exile Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card ReviewEnder in Exile by Orson Scott Card

Yes, Card does have his heart in his Ender stories to a degree beyond anything else he’s written, save perhaps for the early Alvin Maker novels. I’m not sure that Ender in Exile is a story that desperately needed to be told. But now that it has, I can say that it was, if nothing else, treated with consummate integrity by its author, and not as a lazy exercise in cashing in on a pre-sold title. Sure, I’d have appreciated less kitschy melodrama, less hand-wringing emotional self-recrimination, and more of the nuanced approach to character and story we got in EG, Speaker, and Shadow. In the end, the fact that this book’s modest artistic success can be judged the best thing Orson Scott Card has written in years feels less like praise than a sobering reminder of the heights from which he’s fallen.

SF REVIEWS.NET: Ender in Exile / Orson Scott Card ☆☆½.

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