Ender in Exile (The Ender Saga, 5) Mass Market Paperback – August 24, 2021

I've been a longtime fan of Orson Scott Card's Ender series (almost all of Orson's books, actually), and it was a pleasant surprise to learn that another book had been released. I've read both the Shadow series as well as the original Ender series. This book compliments both. While it is touted as a direct sequel to Ender's Game (and to some extent it is), within the author's note at the back of the book, Orson Scott Card reveals that he feels it's more a part of the Shadow series than a sequel to Ender's Game.That being said, the book really does take off almost immediately after Ender's Game. The War with the Formaics has been won, and Earth is debating as to whether or not to allow Ender to return. Peter and Valentine, Ender's brother and sister, get involved, and it's very interesting to see how they feel.The book continues by talking about the voyage that Ender and Valentine experience as they travel to Shakespeare, the settlement Ender has been sent to govern. We learn about his battles with understanding the Hive Queen and why they decided to let Ender kill them, and even find out more about Bean and Petra's lost child that is "forgotten" during the end of the Shadow series.All in all, a fantastic book. I will say that it wasn't a book, at least for me, that kept me dying to read more, but it did hold my attention. I never felt like it was too slow, but it was exciting enough that I continued through it.If you're an Ender fan, this one is definitely worth the read.

This book should be number 2 after Enders Game. Easy read and intriguing science and interesting personalities.

If you like the Ender's series you will like this.

This book is more properly considered part of the Ender's Shadow series, rather than a sequel to Ender's Game. It is stylistically like the Shadow series, features many of the same characters, and ties up loose ends from those books.Card has found a clever way to do that, while centering the story on Ender and Valentine. Readers of Ender's Game will recall that Ender and Valentine left on the first colony ship because there were some good reasons Ender could not return to Earth. This book picks up just before that voyage begins.However, that voyage takes decades because of time dilation. So the events of the Ender's Shadow series all unfold during the voyage.That allows a different slant on those happenings, while also resolving much of what happened to Ender during that period. Ender still has some life issues to face, and this novel shows us how he faces them.I don't recommend this as anyone's introduction to the world of Ender. Read Ender's Game for sure before this. I'd also recommend at least the first couple of books of the Ender's Shadow series as prerequisites. The more of the series you've read the better you'll lke this, though I don't think you needed to read all the way through that series to enjoy this book. (By the way, it's unnecessary to read Speaker for the Dead and its sequels. They take place later in the timeline and you won't suffer any loss of enjoyment if you have not read them.)However, if you liked Ender's Game and want to know what happened to Ender as a teen in more detail, this is the story for you. And if you felt there was one major loose end at the end of Shadow of the Giant, you're right and that loose end plays into the story as well.I was pleased because the sequels to Ender's Game (Speaker for the Dead, etc.) really didn't give me a satisfying view of Ender's character. I concluded at the end of that series that Card really didn't like Ender that much, based on the life he lived in those novels. Perhaps I was mistaken, or perhaps Ender has grown on Card over the years, because the tone of Ender as a character is completely different here than in those books.There are some minor inconsistencies in this story and the other books and stories in the series. Card details these in the Afterword. The biggest conflict is with the story where the computer character Jane is introduced, which was in the collection First Meetings in Ender's Universe. For me these inconsistencies did not get in the way of the story.If you have read and liked just about any of the Ender books before, you'll definitely want to get this one to complete some disparate storylines. If you're like me, you'll read it fast. It just came today; I finished it before bedtime and felt motivated to write this review right away.

Mr. Card is great with writing politics, wars, and histories, and he has the charm to make people believe he knows everything and everything he wrote is how the real world has worked. The successful Enderverse has long gone into the sewer, and maybe less than a handful of books in the series are actually readable. Ender's Game, of course, is a classic and wonderful; Speaker of the Dead and Ender's Shadow are equally great; Xenocide is alright and quite emotional; however, the rest of the Ender's Shadow series and Ender in Exile went south and will never come back.The first quarter of the book is filled with excitement, and many Ender's fans like me crave for more fillers between Ender's Game and Speaker of the Dead. Finally, this installment should be a proper read to tie some left over loose ends, but tying loose ends is all this book ever has done. After Ender and Val take off on the ship with Morgan, the story starts to become extremely dreadful. Then, here we come, the mother with all the plots, and the daughter so smart and so naive. The voyage to Shakespeare takes 2 years in space and 40 years or so of Earth time, and to me, as a reader, I hope I have gone to stasis.The confrontation between Achilles/Randall/Arkanian whatever his name really is and Ender during the very last few chapters of the book somewhat brings back some excitement, but all of a sudden, Achilles/Randall/Arkanian whatever his name really is believes Ender that his real father and mother are who have been accused of murdering his fake father by his surrogate mother, despite that he has beaten Ender up like a stray dog, and voila, everything goes back to be all bubbly wonderful.Back to those loose ends, the book merely provided a back story of why Ender wrote the Hive Queen and how it got distributed and believed by most living humans. During the process, Mr. Card even tried so hard to bring up some deep and cheesy conversations between characters, but they only sounded cheesy.

My 11 yr old loves it (he loved the prequel too). This book keeps them busy

Just finished reading this book. How does this man come up with such incredible stories? Just about to start the next book. It's lucky I have a Kindle as I can get the next book in seconds. Keep them coming pleaxe.

As I wanted, I love it

Enfin Ender est de retour, c'est la fin de la guerre il part en exil. Il a treize ans et Card ne perd rien de ses capacités à continuer de nous faire découvrir ce personnage si particulier qu'est Ender, sa grande intelligence toujours et sa sensibilité certaine. J'ai ri à voix haute et les larmes me sont montées aux yeux aussi. Magnifiquement écrit, on l'attendait depuis longtemps celui_là et on en redemande!

An excellently well written book, like all of OSC's books. Unfortunately I found myself disliking Ender somewhat towards the end of the book. His treatment of his parents was rude. John-Paul and Theresa used to write to him all the time in Battle School, sure Graff never forwarded the letters but he found out after he defeated the Formics. Yet he never responded, then all of a sudden he gets upset because they stopped writing to him and therefore didn't write to them for 50 years? Lame.