Book 35: Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

Ender in Exile is the story of Ender right after the events of Ender's Game. It deals with why he can't go back to Earth and where he does go. It also ties up some loose ends from the Shadow series about Bean. I have a hard time with the Ender series in general. I love Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Those two are awesome. I've read Speaker for the Dead once or twice and also the Shadow of the Hegemon. But, I can never get any further. I've owned Xenocide and Children of the Mind for years and years, but every time I try to start in on Xenocide, I give up after 50 pages. It just doesn't grab me the way the first book does. Anyways, Ender in Exile was good. Ender is a hard character to relate to. He's so inhumanly smart that it seems like he can accomplish anything. He manipulates people all over the place in this one. On the other hand, he's an emotional mess and it gets a little old. I got through it fast and there are a lot of interesting points to it. The handling of Quincy Morgan and Achilles II were very well done.