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Summary: Suspenseful!
Review: I didn;t expect so much suspence to be in a book about a long trip to Earth. It's an excellent book and adds great detail in the next generation charachters.
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Summary: It's downhill from here...
Review: I have to admit it... Card is a master of developing characters. By the time I made it to Earthfall I was on the edge of my seat! I loved Luet and Nafai and loathed Elmark. That is what Card does so well. You know the characters so intimately by the time you're through reading that you feel like you're a part of their world. Unfortunately, you don't want to be a part of this world. It has become a Cliche... Elmark hates Nafai, tries to kill him at every opportunity and Nafai does absolutely nothing about it. At some point in this book you'll be screaming at the book to just let Nafai get it over with!! Overall... Card's books are some of the best reads ever! You're hooked and can't put the book down.
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Summary: It's downhill from here...
Review: I have to admit it... Card is a master of developing characters. By the time I made it to Earthfall I was on the edge of my seat! I loved Luet and Nafai and loathed Elmark. That is what Card does so well. You know the characters so intimately by the time you're through reading that you feel like you're a part of their world. Unfortunately, you don't want to be a part of this world. It has become a Cliche... Elmark hates Nafai, tries to kill him at every opportunity and Nafai does absolutely nothing about it. At some point in this book you'll be screaming at the book to just let Nafai get it over with!! Overall... Card's books are some of the best reads ever! You're hooked and can't put the book down.
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Summary: Perhaps the biggest disappointment in all Science Fiction
Review: I must give credit to Card for having won me over in the previous three volumes of the Homecoming Saga. Initially frustrated by the endless character development and interaction of the large group of characters and longing for the plot to move along, Card won me over to becoming interested in the characters and appreciating the nuances of the changing interactions among them. When the humans finally return to Earth and meet not one, but two sentient species, I was anticipating the plot of the meeting of peoples and looking forward to the continuing interaction of the human characters. And Card did not disappoint. Then came the final four paragraphs, when Card essentially kills off all of the human characters, save one, by jumping his Saga's clock forward until well after all of their deaths. My feeling is that Card simply got bored with his own creation and ended it --- reader be damned! If you are reading the Homecoming Saga and enjoyed it, as I did, perhaps you should consider ending your reading four paragraphs short, put Earthfall down, and be satisifed to leave a very good series of excellent science fiction books before the author does.
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Summary: Not as good as the first three but still pretty good
Review: I was actually quite let down by Earthfall. If you've read the first brilliant three in the Homecoming Saga you'll recognise that the story is a huge build up of tension and competition amongst the characters. Well I know it could only go on for so long, and the tension finally erupts in some places... but the big build up, between Nafai and Elemak... well it's builds up and up during the whole book again... and then everything is let down in the last few pages. An anti-climax, I can't tell what happens without spoiling things but new plot lines have taken over that have ended that brilliant one. Unless the final book in the series can redeem Earthfall, to me, it's an anti-climax.
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Summary: The Best in the Series
Review: I'm surprised to be just about the only person to say that about this book. I thought this book was fantastic! I still get excited thinking about it. I can't tell you how much I was into this. I might go as far as to say that this is my favorite book of all time. I liked it more than Ender's Game, if that's possible.
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Summary: Earthfall -- If You Have Read The Series This Far...
Review: If you have read into the Homecoming Saga this far, then Earthfall will not be a disapointment. On Earth, our favorite characters have begun having children and by extending thier family tree the story keeps building, pushing imaginations even further. With two new species included with the space travelers and thier children, you can't help but to be deeply connected, as if you weren't already, to the circumstances that all of the characters face. As The Ships of Earth prepared readers for this ride, Earthfall will have you creating such deep ties to the characters that the last instalment of the Saga could bring tears to your eyes. It did for me...(read the review of Earthborn for that one). Card's Earthfall was written with such magnanimous proportion that I'm starting to choke up thinking about it. Genius.
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Summary: Plagarism of the Book of Mormon
Review: Orson Scott Card is Mormon, and if we didn't know it before, now we do--he based the entire plot of the Homecoming series on the Book of Mormon. It's so pathetic that I am speechless.
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Summary: Wonderfully imaginative. The recolonization of Earth.
Review: This book, just like all the others in this series, is great for many reasons, but what I especially liked about this particular one was the greater role played by the angels and the diggers. In getting to know the digger/angel people (particualarly Pto and Poto) on a personal level, a whole new demension is added to the story. All of the original characters continue to act just like you'd expect them to, so something new was needed and Card provided it with the introduction of the angels and diggers and their societies. I really liked how all of the events in this book unfolded and the next book promises to hold lots of excitment. Shedemei as somekind of "Mother Earth" and Nafai and Elemak as the angel's and the digger's kings, with war on the way. I only hope that the last few pages of this book are not literal because that would mean that the next book would contain none of the old characters at all, but instead would take place sometime in the distant future when only legends and stories survive from all that has happened so far.
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Summary: Wonderfully imaginative. The recolonization of Earth.
Review: This book, just like all the others in this series, is great for many reasons, but what I especially liked about this particular one was the greater role played by the angels and the diggers. In getting to know the digger/angel people (particualarly Pto and Poto) on a personal level, a whole new demension is added to the story. All of the original characters continue to act just like you'd expect them to, so something new was needed and Card provided it with the introduction of the angels and diggers and their societies. I really liked how all of the events in this book unfolded and the next book promises to hold lots of excitment. Shedemei as somekind of "Mother Earth" and Nafai and Elemak as the angel's and the digger's kings, with war on the way. I only hope that the last few pages of this book are not literal because that would mean that the next book would contain none of the old characters at all, but instead would take place sometime in the distant future when only legends and stories survive from all that has happened so far.
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