Whitney Jamimah's Reviews > Children of the Mind

The long and short of it is that I shouldn't have read this book to begin with.

Upon finishing Xenocide I was very disappointed and had pretty much given up on this series. Fast forward to Medieval-A-Thon in which one of the reading prompts was "read a book you're scared of", I chose to read Children of the Mind. Xenocide went so poorly I had no high hopes for this installment, I was scared to read it because I figured it wouldn't be any good and I was correct.

Xenocide as well as Children of the Mind really felt like the author or the publishers or whoever were trying to milk the series because of how well Ender's Game did and were just trying to piggy back off of the success of the original hit. Sadly we see this often in TV, movies and books. It seems that we can never just quit while were ahead. After the events of Speaker for the Dead everything has just felt....I hate to say pointless but that's what it has been for me, it has all just felt like unnecessary filler.

I know there are more still more in the Ender's series but at this point I'm going to leave well enough alone and not be continuing on with the series.