Ruins

Reminds me of Childrens of the Mind and the constant bickering between deliberately made annoying characters. I guess it's just Orson Scott Card's style now. It's still ok for me. I'm still drawn enough to want to see it through to the third and final book no matter how convoluted it had become. Rigg is no Ender. You won't love him as much as Ender was worshipped. He started like Ender but too many characters got in the way halfway and you'll forget how special Rigg was after that.

I loved the first book of this series; however, after reading them back to back I realized that this book made things more complicated and seemed to change certain aspects from the first book to make it so. For instance in the first book their time travel never left doubles even when it changed the past; nevertheless, in this book it does. However, it isn't a horrible read once you wrap your head around what appear to be massive inconsistencies between the first and second books.

I liked both books 1 & 2 very much. They may have been written for 5th & 6th graders but adults will enjoy as well. Book 3 is just as good. Best to read all 3 together, with all the time traveling headaches its easy to be confused by something you didn't remember when you read other book or books.