Ender's Game

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

My Review

Ender's Game may be described as disturbing to some. To myself, it was intriguing. Ender has been genetically created to be the perfect general. His intelligence is beyond that of a normal human, which marks him as the only one who may have a chance to destroy the race of alien Buggers. At the age of six, he is launched to battle school, where he spends many years in military training. The teachers are no more then monitors, and spend their days testing Ender in the battles that the teams in the school take part in. Meanwhile, Valentine and Peter (Ender's sister and brother), are using their intelligence on earth to influence the world. This story was full of curses I'm afraid, even among the young children. One thing that I found interesting in this tale was Ender's struggle with those he feared and killing. The way he comes to term with it is most likely the most powerful thing about this book. 
  
Star's: 4.5 out of 5

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