The melding of past and present, medieval and futuristic is excellent. The politics were simply Machiavellian and not much variety or alternatives there. Not a great deal but probably sufficient time was spent describing the scenes. The hero, while young, was quite multidimensional. The plot and character development were excellent. It was one of the main reasons I gave up on the Wheel of Time after about 4 of the books. The childish conversations in the book and the way they were narrated sometimes seemed a bit contrived and unsatisfying. Personally, I have raised 7 children and, while a wonderful experience, I am ready and have moved on to more adult dialogues. I have been very tempted to begin the Ender series on many occasions but hesitated because so much seemed to revolve around children. I have wanted to read Card before this book. All of the narrators were very good but the lack of consistency was distracting and detracted from the work. That makes no sense whatsoever and must have had something to do with the audio production itself. In the production, I did not care for the use and switching of multiple narrators for the same characters. While an important and necessary commentary, sometimes Card seems to overdo it with dialogues on the paradoxes. Anytime one deals with time-travel there is always the inevitable "paradox" to deal with. I liked the references to biology/evolution and physics/time-travel. There was a great deal to like about this book.
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