I just finished up Children of the Mind, after a long hiatus from the series following what I found to be a less than enjoyable read of Xenocide, and I'm left disappointed. Neither the third or the fourth installments managed to deliver on that which made the first two so captivating. Am I the only one who feels this way? Am I missing something about the last two that might redeem them in my eyes if I were enlightened?
After two and half novels waiting for the Lusitania Fleet to arrive (tedious to say the least) it is so easily thwarted that I can't help but feel like none of the content in the last two books was necessary. I mean, if Jane could pop the Little Doctor Out and In again with her limited memory and computing abilities following her "shutdown", why the fuck didn't that occur to them from the beginning?
I was looking at some of the other series related to the Ender set and it looks as if much of them are parallel or prequel to Ender's Game. Is there any part of the expanded series that follows up on those elements left open at the end of Children of the Mind?
What becomes of the descaladores?
I want more of Jane too
EDIT: I had in quotes what should have been in spoiler