I guess I can appreciate that, but the narration never tried to fake a Portuguese accent (unless the characters were actually speaking Portuguese). Since Card didn't write the dialogue that way, the best they can do is use the "accents." Another reviewer liked the accents in that they helped distinguish different characters and sections of the book. It seems like the narration direction would have preferred to have the Chinese characters speaking pidgin English. I think they are so inauthentic that they just seem comical and degrading. I am amazed that only a few other reviewers had problems with the "Chinese" accents of the narrators. I was just listening last night and had to have my husband listen to my iPod to hear how horrible it was. But, and this is a HUGE but, I find the narration on this and Children of the Mind so horrible at times that I get pulled out of the story. I can pick up any of the Ender books (or Shadow books) and just start reading and immediately get caught up again. What it really comes down to, though, is that these are my comfort books.
So, the story arc isn't completed in Xenocide. Card has written that the final installment of his original series got too long and so was split into two books - Xenocide and Children of the Mind. I agree that this isn't one of the strongest of the Ender series. But if you think of it as the first in a two-part novel, then you'll likely be dying to get your hands on the next part of the story when you finish. If you think of it as a stand-alone book, you may be disappointed. The ending of this book ties up some threads of the story, but not all of them. Note, however, that, as the author himself mentions in a short commentary at the end, this book is actually the first of a two part series (the next book is "Children of the Mind"). Yet it is also very much its own new and wonderful story, and not at all just a revisit to the same old themes of the first two books. Xenocide is told with the same passion as Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, and it is filled with just as much emotion and understanding. In addition to making you think, it also makes you feel. But the philosophy in the book serves a purpose to move the story forward and develop characters more.
Xenocide is perhaps the most overtly philosophical of the Ender Wiggin series so far.
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