I find it funny that Card follows up one of the best sequels of all time with one of the worst sequels of all time.
This book is sad because of all the world building and good characterization that happened in the first two books seems to be forgotten here. Card preaches more and doesn't seem as concerned with characters as he did with the first two books. He has characters seem to sit around more and debate things, instead of moving the story forward these debates bring the story to a stand still, making the book harder to get through. As good as an argument as Speaker of the Dead was for a sequel, this book is as good an argument for sequels never being made.
There is just some much wrong with this book that I don't even know where to start. The only reason I picked it up to read was that I wanted to see if Card could further his world building but as I've already stated he doesn't even come close to it. Everything that made the first two books so good seem to be discarded or forgotten with this book as Card falls prey to all the other sci-fi writers: he gets more concerned with preaching and science fiction than he does with characters. Characters seem to take a back seat to everything else in the story. In the end Card falls prey to plot device that is just ludicrous in so many ways that when things go wrong ever in this story or further stories I automatically think just use that one miraculous plot device you created, which has conveniently been forgotten about.
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