Review: 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card

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'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card, 324 pages - Instagram @c_reads_books

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card tells the story of Ender Wiggin, a boy only six years old when he is sent away to a training academy in outer space called Battle School, a place where he spends a majority of his childhood learning battle tactics in order to defend Earth from an alien race dubbed the "buggers." Ender has to fight battles much deeper than the ones he fights in a zero-gravity battle school, however, when he struggles to fight the darkness and turmoil inside him, with full knowledge that he may be humanity's last hope at survival.

I must say, I enjoyed this book much more than I thought that I would. The story had kind of a slow start for me, but once I got further in, I began to really love it. I would describe this book as "very science fiction," which I usually don't tend to love. I really like science fiction, but I more so like Vonnegut's take on it (more satirical and more fiction than science) rather than someone like Wells (The War of the Worlds was just not my thing) or Card, whose science fiction is very science fiction. In synopsis, I tend to like books that are closer to the fiction genre rather than books that are more towards the fantasy and science fiction genre. All things aside, once I got further into Ender's story, I really began to appreciate the story and his character development. I'm still not completely sure how I feel about the ending (and not sure if I'll continue reading the series), but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and you do not have to be a science fiction fan to like this book!