This was really weird. I don't really know how to review it. The first book in the quartette was easy enough to read. The writing of Orson Scott Card is really "beautiful" but he finds some way to twist his ability to write well, into a means of promoting really horrible ideas. So I'm a bit mixed. The writing is something I just get into, but what he's really saying just is hard as can be to read, especially if you ignore the writing.