Good writing. I like Card's characters and plots. This gets significantly more speculative than either of it's predecessors, and hops a few more POVs, but it's not confusing. the recording quality is deteriorated a little (at least on the edition I've got) from what EG and SftD had, though it's all by the same people and very well done. The music at chapter ends is a little annoying. 
 Card inserts a very interesting commentary on Free will and Predestination into the dialog of one of the middle chapters, I really like his take on it. He really brings up some interesting lines of thought throughout.