I think I liked this book overall a little bit more than the first one of the series but not enough to give it a different rating. Overall I think this series is not for me. There were parts about the book that I enjoyed, mainly the Mystery aspect with discovering / researching a new alien species and how the society is at the brink of war with them just because of misunderstandings / misconceptions with each other and this also reflects well with the real world for me. 

It was baffling to get such a huge time jump between book one and two but I thought that was actually a good thing. Lot’s of opportunity to show how Ender has grown as a character and lots of opportunities for deep reflections.

On the other hand the quite heavy religious themes of the book really didn’t work for me and also I just don’t like Ender as a character that much, at least not enough to make me read more books about him. I thought his relationship with Jane was very interesting and I would probably like to see more of her but I don’t think that’s where this is going. 

I also felt like the book is quite slow paced with just not that much actually happening which left me bored quite a lot of times. 

So after another quite average reading experience I’m gonna bounce off the series. A friend who also read them told me that he actually liked the Ender’s Shadow series a lot more. Maybe I’ll give that one a try at some point.