Ender Wiggins is a child genius who is recruited and exploited by the military of the planet. Earth is at war with an alien species. Ender who has been genetically altered and created with two siblings, neither of whom have the right balance of aggression and commanding abilities to enter training. His brother is nothing short of a psychopath and his sister is too much of a humanitarian. While Ender is away training and rising rapidly through the ranks his siblings are manipulating the political scene back home through the creation of a phantom and his ever so sagacious and brilliant debating abilities! It beggars belief. This book deals primarily with Ender's aggression being nurtured and rewarded and honed to a keen edge while all along Ender battles his own pre-pubescent feelings of angst. All the time Ender believed that he, and all other cadets he trained alongside were in military training. All the cadets were duped. It turns out that he did command an attack fleet on the alien world. I didn't see that plot twist coming; the author hid the truth of it all from the reader very well. What did I thing of this novel? It isn't detritus, poor, mediocre or better than average but a novel over-hyped without deserving its accolades. This book turned out to be something of a letdown.
