Burning Ones

So I asked Timmy what I should read next and he plopped this book down on the coffee table. Its one of his favorites so I figured it couldn’t be all that bad :-).

And, of course, I loved it. It was extremely fast paced- I finished it in two days just because of how much action there was. I think I’d give it 4.5 stars out of 5 because it was very depressing at times, which I think added to the author’s goal, but depressing nevertheless. It also had some really realistic suggestions for what the future might be like. One of them was a population limit law, which prohibits you from having a third child (which is what Ender is).

As far as a brief synopsis goes, all I want to say is that Ender is a really, really smart six year old who is burdened with something that he should have never been burdened with. So its the story of him and how he carries it.

My Rating: * * * * 1/2