Review: Speaker for the Dead

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the third time reading this book for me, and I find it ever more beautiful every time I read it. Hence my shift from four to five stars after this third read. I read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow before I read this, but this was the first I found truly captivating. And yet I've yet to seek out the next book in the series. Maybe soon.

There is so much compassion in this book in the heartbreaking situations the characters are faced with. So much is foreshadowed if you are a perceptive reader or if you're reading. I think there was too much time between the first and second time I was reading it (over five years) to catch most of it, but between the second and third time was just over a year, and I still remembered much of the plot. I think this helped me appreciate the book so much more.

I also really appreciate the Introduction at the beginning: "You will make of my story what you need it to be, if you can." I think this is such a giving and generous sentiment for an author.

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