What could have been the saving grace of the Ender series, ends up being another way to further cast Ender as unimportant and a memory of the past.

Card artfully finds a way to resolve all of the conflicts in this conclusion to the series. However, instead of placing rationality between the characters and their relationships, he causes silly events, like people getting married who know almost nothing about each other and allowing one of the anti-heroes to consume the good, true heroes, well before their time.

I wish I hadn't tried to keep finding sanity in this series. My advise is for those who loved Ender's Game and find Ender to be an inspiring hero, don't read further than Ender's Game, or if necessary Speaker for the Dead. I wish I had stopped at Ender's Game.