Card follows one of the worst sequels of all time up with an even more worse sequel - that just begs the question: Why?
This book was even more terrible than the previous book and only did further damage to the world Card had created with Ender's Game. Everything that was bad with Xenocide became amplified with Children of the Mind or to put it more appropriately - it all got turned up to 11.
Bad characters became even worse characters. Story lines got just to the point where I just didn't care about anything going on and suffered through this book only to finish it and be done with the Ender series. Characters that I found annoying only got more annoying. Everything he built upon in the first two books seemed to just get destroyed in this book.
One of the worst ending to a character (Ender) I've ever read about in any book, in no way was it a satisfying ending to Ender's life. It felt more as if Ender's life was a leaf wilting in the sun and all the time I had invested with Ender became nothing but static. I still don't understand how Card can justify the wife he gave Ender, who in just no way fit with Ender and I never found there relationship believable. It felt more contrived and plot motivated than anything else. The character Jane felt more alive and I believed the relationship she had with Ender more than the woman Card gave him as a wife. He never gave enough scenes with Ender and wife to justify their relationship as this whole book seemed to be just not enough of anything to be anything. There didn't seem to be the same kind of passion with these last two stories that was present in the firs two books. Herbert ran into this issue as well when he did the sequel to Dune, which didn't just feel like the same book as the first book. A book to missed for sure.
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