This book almost seems like a younger-aimed version of Ender's Game to me, and could even have the basic plot be translated into a Star Trek episode. If you are looking for a similar, more adult/YA intended novel, I would recommend Ender's Game. On the other hand, I feel anyone reading above middle grade would not be so enraptured by it. However, the book was well written I think that any middle grade reader would have very much enjoyed this book - I'm simply not the right audience for it. For me, this came through in how new characters gave up information or trusted the main characters so easily and how, miraculously, the three other alien felons accompanying Skold, Zachary, Kaylee, and Ryic all ended up dead before any of the three trainees did - and why would Skold keep all three of them along when he only needed one of the three as a hostage/leverage/warp glove access? Being 13, I really see how all of these things in the TV shows just don't quite work or shouldn't be so - the kids not knowing graphs or how much a dime is worth even though they are 12 years old in the show. Later, the action definitely picks up, though I really think the closest comparison of how I see this book is like how I see the new little kid shows on TV. Despite how we had several moments tied together, presumably to help give us a taste of the world and what is to come, it felt rather slow to me. In the first chapter or so we just had - boom, page where the warp glove comes in and - boom, another single page and he's talking with Danielle and - boom, this one page of him in the training simulator under the garage. I think one of the main things for me as an 'older' mind rather than the more intended middle grade audience was that the beginning of the book felt rather like a collection of tied-together drabbles, almost, if you are familiar with the term. ![]() This book strikes me as very much middle grade, more specifically for boys in middle grade, I would suppose, though Kaylee provides a very present character for female readers. Of course, I also read Ender's Game in 3rd grade and I was expecting a more YA-aimed book. I loved reading Ender's Game and I was hoping for a similar experience what with the Indigo 8 training academy for space fighting, etc. I, personally, wasn't extremely fond of this book, being a 13 year old female.
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