The Swarm: Volume One of The Second Formic War

Another excellent addition to the Enderverse. I recommend going back and reading Earth Awakens before reading this book, unless you are fresh on the details. I kept having to refer back to events in Earth Awakens because it had been a while since I had read it.

Our favorite Formic Wars characters are back. Of course, Mazer Rackham, but also Vico Delgado, Imala, Bingwen, and Lem Jukes. The book takes some turns I did not expect, particularly with Mazer's storyline, and it does a good job of further developing the mysterious teacher from Ender's Game.

If I had a critique, it would be the foreknowledge this book seems to have of things that seemed not to be known or accepted in Ender's time. I am curious to see how Card will connect the facts he has exposed in this book compared to what the International Fleet seems not to know, to have forgotten, or to have classified, by the time Ender becomes a cadet. We also see the initiation of the Battle Room, which seemed a little pandering, but still, enjoyable. I look forward to the next installment.

I was originally skeptical of the Formic War Series seeing as it was a co-authorship, but it held true to OSC's genius from the rest of the Enderverse. This one is no different. Can't wait for the next!

At the beginning it is really slow, maybe even boring. Eventually it gets interesting, however they shouldn't have split this into several books,l. Also I fell that the quality is not the same from the first trilogy.

As always from OSC: brillant story, unexpected solutions, a little of religion concepts practical in real life. Quite good week of reading. Plus Einstein & Heisenberg principles examples of inventions - that interesting extension of orginal Ender serie.

Nice to reconnect to old characters. A lot of information that explain how all the technology came to be, but lingers forever and still does not connect to Enders Game. Unsolved issues with the charachter of Mazor. Will we have another book?

This book, written in superb and easy to read storytelling style, with several key story lines carefully woven together keeps the anticipation high and delivers new insight wrapped in new mystery time and again.