This book while being a continuation of Enders Saga is very much different from the original work, while the first book puts us in Enders Brain, dealing on the physiological side of a Sci-fi action-adventure, this one shows us the philosophical and spiritual side. “Yes, but it can feel like being torn to pieces.” Love this story, it is full of hard questions, on what it means to be alive, moral dilemmas faced in a futuristic world, a world with multiple aliens species and on what we perceive to be sentient species.Īlthough a standalone it is a direct continuation of Ender's Game: Ender In Exile & part of the Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School I look forward to reading it as a prose book, and despite the drawbacks I perceived in the style, the graphic novel will help me to visualise the book better. Speaker for the Dead is an interesting story, on the whole. How do you capture emotion in a graphic novel? Probably through expression, and there were moments in which expression worked excellently, but on the whole I think I would rather read the book in prose. Dramatic moments were presented with the same tone as the mundane. ( Ender's Game put us deep in Ender's head, which worked really well for the story.) I haven't read many graphic novels, so I don't know whether this is a common drawback, but I felt that the art style treated the book in a detached way. At once we miss the interior monologue of a prose book and the pacing and soundtrack of a movie. Catholicism provided a reasonable way for the people of Lusitania to resist Ender as the Speaker for the Dead.Īs a graphic novel, Speaker for the Dead, I thought, had unused potential. It's a real culture on an alien world, and I found it intriguing. It ties Earth and Lusitania together in a fascinating way. One of the ideas that compelled me most upon my first reading of the graphic novel was Catholicism on an alien planet. It's a question that haunted me and drew me back to the book to read again, and again. I don't know if I could have chosen the same thing Ender did, and at the same time I see the drawbacks with choosing differently.
Like its prequel, Ender's Game, this book poses moral questions to which I have no answer. Speaker for the Dead is a difficult book.
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