The Ships of Earth (Homecoming Saga #3) in Ender's Jeesh

Apr 24, 2010 Mark Sanchez rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Great ending, leaves me dying to read the next book. However, this book deserves a review, so I’ll hold off long enough to write, what I hope to be, a helpful review of this book. When I think of words to describe this book, a roller coaster comes to mind. I know, Oh how original of me. However, it’s not the experience of riding the roller coaster itself that this book reminds me of, but waiting in line for what you know is going to be a great experience. You know where our incredibly young yet Great ending, leaves me dying to read the next book. However, this book deserves a review, so I’ll hold off long enough to write, what I hope to be, a helpful review of this book. When I think of words to describe this book, a roller coaster comes to mind. I know, Oh how original of me. However, it’s not the experience of riding the roller coaster itself that this book reminds me of, but waiting in line for what you know is going to be a great experience. You know where our incredibly young yet incredibly mature main characters are headed, but at the moment you’re in a place where there seems to be no end to and you just hope around the next bend is what you’ve been waiting for. I’ll just say…..there are more than 2 bends to this line and no, speed passes are not allowed in this metaphor or the book.

I’ll try my best not to spoil anything for anyone, but proceed at your own risk.

As they continue their journey through the, what seems to be, endless desert, the morals of all the characters from the second book are further established with the actions each takes. A few times I changed who my favorite character in this series was, because of the sudden wave of intel. you receive about a character. One page I thought a particular character was useless and only a part of the story because there needed to be equal numbers of men and women. A page later he’s the strongest character in the story, in my humble opinion. However the entire book doesn’t follow this design. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the book, but well past halfway through the book, I thought to myself, “wow they are still traveling to some place the oversoul wants them to go.” I understand that it was important. Along with learning more about their morals, Card seems to be developing what I hope to be future conflicts that for now certain characters choose to hide from the others.

Looking back at it now, some of the most important character developments came from their trials in the harsh terrain. Maybe what Orson Scott Card was going for was to make you go through your own sort of desert while reading about the characters and their conflicts. Maybe the fact that I read the first half before the semester started, and the second half after finals were over, contributed to the taste of sand in my mouth. Or maybe I just need to stop over analyzing this book and read the next one already.

P.S. Does Nafai remind anyone else of another one of Card’s young space-bound heroes?
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