The Ender Quintet

The “Ender Quintet” series is a long, 2500 page+ novel about a young child named Andrew Wiggin, (nickname: Ender) advancing from a military school for kids known as Battle School. There he makes friends, kills two other students, and experienced the death of his colleagues, all just to slay a notorious human race known as the Buggers, or the Formics. After accidentally incinerating the Buggers’ entire species with a molecular disruptor, he lives with the guilt of destroying an entire sentient alien race. Accidentally! So he decides to take on gut-wrenching adventures, traveling at light speed, so that while he’s still 19, his older brother died on Earth from a stroke and heart failure CENTURIES ago! This killing of the buggers, known as The First Xenocide, is so important that time was known represented as, no, not BCE. No, not CE. That’s right, it becomes BX and AX, standing for ‘Before Xenocide’ and ‘After Xenocide’! This means that due to the fact that Peter Wiggin (Ender’s older brother) died at the age of 77, and was born 15 BX, then he died at the era of 62 AX!! Wow, imagine if we all had to switch to BX and AX. He learns lessons, he learns how to manipulate others, and best of all, he learns how to write a good book. Yet that’s not all! The interloping novels are written in stomach-splitting detail, with a background of dark humour. From murders to pornography to war packs, this book involves a way of dragging you in, while all the same repelling you. The first book is okay for 12 year olds, but then all of a sudden the next 4 books have lots of inappropriate language and sex references. My father REALLY should have filtered out the inappropriate bits of the series before giving it to me. Ages 17+. 27/04/2025