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Walterlym Siqueira haideia — In "Earthfall," the rather biblical-feeling, constantly bickering, occasionally even murderous clan of Rasa and The Wetchick finally makes it to Earth, 40 million years in our future when all humans are long gone and two new sentient species are trying to fill their ecological niche. A few things stuck out to me as I read this second-to-last book in the series: 1) Card's books will never be made into movies. They don't deal with the right subject matter. Even in a plot where a couple of dozen soft, untrained, modern individuals attempt not only to resurrect 40-million year old ships but also create a functional, self-sustaining colony on a long abandoned planet, we don't have themes of "man vs. environment" or even "man vs. technology." The takeoff and landing take place off screen, for goodness sake, and the mid-trip alarm that scares everyone out of their hibernation sleep is due not to mechanical failure but the unplanned awakening and subsequent machinations of the murderous elder brother of Nafai. In other words, Card is far too busy dealing with "Man vs. Himself" - all that internal conflict - to bother with the pedestrian possibility of crop failure, illness, or the basic complexity of trying to go it alone in a wilderness with only a few dozen colony members. This is very different from most sci-fi w/ similar plot elements. The "introverted" focus, however, remains interesting - although frankly by book 4 the Elemak vs. Nafai conflict is getting a little bit old. Thankfully the "angels" and "diggers" appear to take some of the focus. 2) Card also delights in designing strange alien species with even stranger reproductive requirements and symbioses. In the Ender-verse we have the piggie / little mother / father tree / descolada setup that occupies so much of "Xenocide" and "Children of the Mind." The angel / digger interrelationship in "Homecoming" is only slightly less bizarre. Perhaps reading between the lines the message here is "If it was working when you found it, don't mess with it. You don't understand it and will probably break it." There's some wisdom in that, I must admit! In summary, read this book if you are a Card fan already and following the whole series, but it doesn't stand well on its own, nor is it supposed to. And the Ender-verse is really a bit better! :)

David Roura davidroura — I expected this book to be better, even though it was a bestseller - something along the lines of some of the Oprah-selected women's fiction books of the past. instead it had a great premise but didn't really go anywhere. there was too much repetitive prose and most of the characters were drawn only superficially, particularly Phoebe, the daughter born with down syndrome. I like to experience what the masses are reading, but this one definitely didn't impress me.

Lucien Abou-zeid _rchitectureinit — I didn't expect to enjoy this book so much but it was really quite a good story - the storyline was different to the usual sci-fi romance that I have read so far which was a nice break from the norm. And it was quite a nice and 'light' read as opposed to some I have read recently which are quite dark stories. There was some action, mystery, adventure and fantasy set on a new alien world and mixed up with a love story/romance running through the majority of the book. A nice little read and one that would convince me to read other books by this author in future. The main characters' story is concluded in this book, so I am guessing whilst they may be mentioned as an aside in future books in the series, the next one will be about a new set of main characters.