Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is much better than the other recent Ender "midquel." Great craftsmanship as is usual from Card. I felt that it suffered from Ender being a bit TOO perfect and insightful. It made Ender a bit irritating and it doesn't fit with the earlier books (which come later in the in-world timeline).
And, as usual, Card has to fit in his Mormon apologetics. This time he points out that it makes total sense to be polygamist when the number of available women is disproportionately low. Um, sure.
Otherwise, I felt this was a good way to connect the Bean and Ender books, wrap up some loose ends from the Bean series, and set up the universe of the Ender series.
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