I hate to say this. I'll preface it by saying that I love Ender's Game. And really liked Ender's Shadow. This, the 7th in the Ender series overall, and the 3rd in the Bean wing of said series, was excruciating. It was not so much story as it was an extended pro-life, pro-Christianity, pro-America humorless trudge through a paper-thin plot. I'm not going any further with this series.