Illini Hillel

Disappointing ending

Revisado: 02-14-20

The atmosphere in the book feels very real, but the main character feels very flat. The last chapters are full of unnecessary plot devices that make the entire book unrealistic.

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The ongoing disappointment of the formic wars

Revisado: 01-29-20

I keep listening to the series hoping for more character depth. While I still recommend Ender's Game and Speaker for The Dead, the current series feels so many levels below. The characters never really change... from one book to another, they repeat the same actions while the war advances. Lem stays Lem, Victor stays Victor and so on... It almost feels like the only character that develops is the hive queen.
The new characters in this book do not have an inside, only external performance. The characters we know, seem to think one way, but then the dialogue goes directly back to their good old selves. It's a shame. The story line could be so much deeper. A soldier's life in war is so much more developed than this.

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not very useful

Revisado: 05-05-19

I was hoping for more info on what would be the right plants, options etc.. so glad I didn't spend a credit on this.

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Not great

Revisado: 11-22-18

another Card story that could have been a lot better. It feels like he was not trying to build a real character.

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A bit childish.

Revisado: 01-17-17

The world and system could have a lot of potential. The Skills, The power composite etc... Really impressive system. But the relationships between the characters are very immature.
In fantasy world 20 year old men and women do not act like they are 13. Most people their age have families... I find the dialogues to be a miss.
The battle descriptions are actually very good and descriptive. These books read as really good action movies with really bad character development.

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stop dragging us through...

Revisado: 10-02-16

When you compare any of the prequals to Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead and even the first few of the Shadow series, it is clear that someone is in it for the money now.

The storyline hardly progresses from book to book. The characters stay relatively flat. As readers we are dragged from one book to the next without any eye opening ideas, no real challenges to the characters and nothing that we haven't heard about before. It's disappointing.

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Wonderful dystopian story

Revisado: 04-04-16

I read 48 as a teenager after visiting London. because of that story I came back again to see the city in a whole new way. Herbert became one of my favorite novelists. Hearing the book almost 15 years later with Slade's talent makes the book so much more powerful.

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Less than going postal

Revisado: 02-14-16

while the humor was still there, the story line was far less thought out than the previous book.
Fun listening, but not great.

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