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Title: Earthfall (Homecoming Saga)
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Author: Orson Scott Card
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Review of Earthfall (Homecoming Saga)

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Comments for Earthfall (Homecoming Saga)

• Posted on 2010-02-14
  Disappointing
  
  This book was a real disappointment. It's only positive feature was it passed the time whenever I had difficulty sleeping. The book never went anywhere. Two stars is probably generous.
  
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• Posted on 2009-10-01
  Enjoyed by Card Readers
  
  Card is a master at deep characters. This book is no different. It presents very human conflicts that pull the reader in, and make you want to talk to and empathize with the characters. While I doubt most readers can really appreciate it without having read the prior books in the series, it is another in one of Card's best tales.
  
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• Posted on 2009-03-17
  Homecoming series
  
  Loved the whole Homecoming Series (am currently enjoying book 5, Earthborn) Love all of Orson Scott Card's works, both his sci-fi, as well as his fantasy stuff.
  
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• Posted on 2009-02-14
  Earthborn
  
  This is a wonderful book. I recently discovered Orson Scott Card and he is a wonderful storyteller. I'm now reading my second series by him. Thank goodness Amazon was able to get the book immediately to me when it was not available at my local store.
  
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• Posted on 2008-02-05
  It Ran Out of Steam
  
  I've liked a lot of the science fiction that Card has written but, I now realize that when he writes a multi-volume series like the Ender series or the Alvin Maker series, I tend to lose interest after the first book or two and this series is no exception; I never made it past the middle of book 4 of 5.
  
  I thought his plot did not offer any great surprises and that he telegraphed his punches-- such as they were--long before they landed. I see that Card has written a lot of material concerning various people in the Bible. The strong parallels with various biblical themes found in this series just didn't appeal to me and, frankly, I did not think that his writing was up to the task of successfully incorporating these themes in a way that was powerful enough to justify their use.
  
  Card's portrayal of the nature of the key relationship between the good younger brother, Nafai, and his evil older brother, Elemak, really irritated me and struck me as being very unrealistic. Unrealistic because, although Nafai experiences several instances in which Elemak first plots to kill their father and then tries to kill him, in which Elemak tortures and beats Nefai severely and although Nafai knows--without a doubt--that his older, evil brother is constantly plotting his death, knows of his murderous hatred and rage, knows of his plotting a dictatorial take-over of the expedition to Earth and knows that Elemak's reign would be a catastrophe for the effort to return to Earth, the younger brother meekly accepts it all. Nafai never tries to eliminate this threat to his father and mother, to himself and his wife and child and to the whole purpose of the expedition to Earth. Nefai's incredible restraint in the face of constant plotting, murderous rage and physical abuse by his psychotic brother just strikes me as extremely unrealistic. I assume all turns out well in the end but, I was not interested enough--despite the investment of time it took to read almost 4 of the 5 books in this series--to stick around to find out.
  
  For me, and, I suspect for a lot of other people, five volumes is too much of a slog.
  
  
  
  
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