Absolutely, but Ender in Exile is a wild card. At Miro's urging, the Hive Queen begins working with her sisters and the pequenino fathertrees to discover a way to save Jane by helping her move into Young Val's body. I've loved this series. . This can be exemplified with the following passage (which was edited as to not give away too much of the plot): This book was depressingly awful for me. Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Children of the Mind, book 4 in the Ender Quintet, narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir, John Rubinstein and cast. The novel ends with Jane transporting herself and the other newlyweds to some unknown location. Half alien-human Cadet Voss's 1st assignment after 160 years in stasis is a sabotaged space mission where his hybrid powers are forced to emerge. "I can call spirits from the vasty deep," he said again. Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card's Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier's Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine's Golden Earphones Award. "Wang-mu spoke the common language well enough at least to understand the idiom. Ender's friends and family gather to lay him to rest. ""Well, it’s not true. "These words meant something to him, but not to her. Children of the Mind is the fourth and final novel in the Ender quartet, continuing precisely where Xenocide leaves off. He just sort disappeared from relevance, and I’m not sure any aiua games or new character drama can make up for that. From the stunning first novel, each book in the series has been progressively worse. Did I do it right? Did this make the great Speaker of the Dead Peter’s father? I mean, of course I was rooting for them, especially Miro and Jane. The end is coming. Father. The words just come to my mind. Or was he somehow Ender’s brother, not just named for but actually embodying the Hegemon who had died three thousand years before?Peter stopped murmuring, leaned back in his chair, and sighed. Stop the Lusitania Fleet. Something went wrong. All the stories are fictions. I was told by many internet people to stop reading after Speaker for the Dead, and I almost did because I loved that book so much on its own. After all he went through, and all he did for humanity, and for her family, to rob him of that irreplaceable experience…). Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Children of the Mind is the fourth and final novel in the Ender quartet, continuing precisely where Xenocide leaves off. Grudgingly, the admiral is convinced to file a report with Starways Congress that explains how the descolada threat has been neutralized and that the Lusitania Rebellion was really little more than a misunderstanding. A full review of 'Xenocide', though, isn't really necessary since both books are terrible and suffer from the same flaws. Will he be able to pull it off or die trying? Children of the Mind is the fourth book in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet. He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren. The First Formic War Series: One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. Well, now I've finished the "Ender Quartet" (or saga, as it's called here) at a very leisurely pace. So many confessions of love for a sci-fi novel! “She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. It made me excited to explore more of Card's work. Compared to the rest of the series, Ender's Game seems very simplistic. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. "That’s always the best guess when a European is doing the quoting," he said. Children of the Mind flows from the rest of the Ender saga. After reading the earlier books in the series, the final installment was really a disappointment. On a war-torn planet a young girl contributes to a shocking atrocity…a young boy fights to stay alive. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.