Earth Unaware (Formic Wars) (utgåvan 2012)

I don't know who the co-author is here... but... Orson Scott Card was the selling point for me. Turns out the story is really good, which isn't really a surprise. If you like OSC's work, you should like this one. It is very typical of his writing style/topic/characters.

No sex, nothing graphic, no swearing. Just lots of space/alien activity and the tweaking of our "justice" strings... (i.e. we want justice to be served, but you will have to finish the story to find out if it is or not). Bit of a cliffhanger, but it is a multibook series, and I don't mind "having" to read more OSC. ( )

When I first opened this book, I wasn't terribly concerned that one of the main POV characters was a teenager. After all, Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Game, which has an awesome child protagonist. Unfortunately Victor and many of the adult characters, just fall flat. I'm interested in the alien threat the characters face, but I couldn't name a single one that I would have felt sad or angry if they had died. They just don't make enough of an impression on the reader to really develop the kind of emotional connection that would make their death the gut punch Card and Johnston clearly expect it will be. ( )

This is a prequel to the Ender's Game series. This one goes back to the very first appearance of the Formics in our solar system. I thought the technology and culture to be appropriate and accurate, it both fit into the tech of Ender's Game and fit into what could possibly be coming in the near future, with the possible exception of the lack of robots and AI's. ( )

Some good interaction between characters, between adolescents and young men and women, parents and children. An interesting intersecting plot. (just wanted to use those two "i" words in the same sentence together, that's why I reviewed this book).

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Exciting, page turner. ( )