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    Ruins
    Ruins
    Ruins
    Audiobook14 hours

    Ruins

    Written by Orson Scott Card

    Narrated by Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne and Emily Janice Card

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    Features a new exclusive introduction read by author Orson Scott Card.

    From the author of Ender’s Game, the major motion picture!

    A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls “an epic in the best sense.”

    When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh—a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive—but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can’t yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can’t work together to alter the past, there will be no future.

    The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 30, 2012
    ISBN9781441820358
    Author

    Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card is the author of numerous bestselling novels and the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row; first for Ender’s Game and then for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife in North Carolina.

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    • 5/5
      Pretty good, very interesting! Great for having in the back while I take notes.
    • 5/5
      I am absolutely amazed by how awesome these books are. I am totally flabbergasted that anyone could leave a less than 5 star review here. These 3 books are superior science fiction. If you love smart science fiction these books are for you. I’ve had a great time reading these books. If I was in jail, I would not mind it if I had these books to read.
    • 4/5
      see overall review of series with Visitors
    • 4/5
      This one was not quite as intriguing as I expected it to be, after Pathfinders, but it nonetheless was appreciable. Time travel is confusing, and the narration does it justice.

      I am mildly irritated that it ended the way it did, although it is interesting and makes me certain there's a third.
    • 3/5
      hard to follow time travel, silly mice that are part human, juvenile bathroom humor
    • 3/5
      An enjoyable sequel. I enjoyed setting and plot -- .especially liked the ending. In fact, most of the book is pretty boring -- characters spent 90% of their time bickering-- until the ending. The drama in this book all about the characters and their inabilities to trust each other, leaving the reader to wonder who's the hero and what's the book's objective goal ? Why did I read this, again? The constant leaps in time left me wondering what day it is...and I gave up on that. I'm invested, so I'll go on to the third book of the trilogy.
    • 5/5
      An enjoyable sequel. I appreciate that while the ending left room for a third installment, it was not a cliffhanger (I hate those!). I found the story, setting, and characters new, exciting, interesting, and enjoyable. I really hope the series continues so we can find out what happens!
    • 4/5
      This is the follow-on to Pathfinder. The story continues as the young adults have escaped those who are chasing them and continue to try and survive and learn about their world of Garden. Garden was settled by 19 different identical spaceships 11,000 years ago, as a result of a 'jump drive' accident. This allows Card to speculate on 19 different evolutionary paths, each one guided by one of the robots that serve the ships. Rigg and the others are trying to survive, and trying to find a way to survive the impending visit of a spaceship from Earth. I enjoy the setting and plot of these books quite a bit. Card has created an interesting world. The characters unfortunately are too much like the characters from his Ender books. Rigg may as well be Ender - super intelligent, a trained leader, but a reluctant leader. His other friends are equally brilliant. Card does a great job showing the struggles of young adults and how they can have problems with their interactions, but what I miss in this book is 'ordinary' characters. Everyone is exceptional in some way, there are no ordinary people.Overall though, I really enjoyed the book. Card has done another great job of creating a setting and a plot and characters to match.
    • 4/5
      In Pathfinder, Rigg and Umbo learn about their time-shifting abilities and their world. They escape their own wallfold, the enclosed area of the planet Garden where they live, and learn there are in total 19 wallfolds. The history of Garden and the time-shifting abilities make Pathfinder a fascinating book, and this is continued in Ruins. Rigg and his friends visit several of the wallfolds, and what they find there is equally as imaginative as their abilities. The developments of mankind have been dramatically different in the different wallfolds. Soon it turns out a disaster is looming over Garden that Rigg and his friends have to avert. They make a lot of headway, but it is clear that there will be at least one more book. I absolutely loved the intricacy of the world Orson Scott Card has created. The different people on it and their abilities are amazing. Anyone who likes the mice of The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy should also read the pathfinder series. I think the book would have been even better if there had been a little less adolescent bickering between the characters. On the one hand it does fit, since the most important characters are adolescents, on the other hand I've noticed that resentment is one of the most vexing things to read about. Fortunately it seems that the characters get over it by the end of the book, so the next one no doubt will be amazing!