The book Speaker for the Dead is one of the most outstanding and exciting books I have ever read and I encourage anyone who enjoys a book that makes them think to read it. Orson Scott Card adds interesting new twists to the life of Andrew Wiggin and adds to his personality allowing the reader to understand Ender more. A new alien species is added into the mix with intriguing and exotic new ways of life that are worth the read alone.
This book it’s the sequel to the amazingly well written Ender’s Game that I also recommend. However Speaker for the Dead is written on a much higher level and takes much more time to read than Ender’s Game. The extra time for reading Speaker for the Dead is well worth it. The science in this book, called xenobiology, combined with the unexplainable phenomenon of the Piggies and their rituals made it a guessing game right up until the very last page. To me, the aspect of the mystery in this book adds to the reading experience and makes it more exhilarating too.
Over all, the book Speaker for the Dead is an amazing book and a terrific read and I highly recommend it. I admit the first 50 pages or so were kind of slow but the rest of the story would not be complete without it and it is well worth waiting through. Once the plot picks up, the story gets so exciting to the point where you just can’t put it down.

After reading this book I have to rank it as the best book I've ever read. As a struggling/amateur writer, it opened my eyes to what makes a good novel. It did start out a little slow as someone else mentions in their review, but when it takes off, you better hold on. I really felt like I had experienced the journey first-hand after I had finished SFTD. Only one other book made me feel that way - On the Road by Jack Kerouac, but that was 12 years ago. I doubt that I would have liked SFTD back then though, and I think adults will appreciate this book more so than younger readers.

The "Speaker for the Dead", was a remarkable book that took my mind not quite as far as I thought "Ender's Game" did, but to a certain degree it took me just as far. When you find out that Ender can still amaze you with something as new as being 3-thousand years old you get pretty into the book. I especially like how his genetic history still carries through the novel. For him having two sides. Both a savior and of course his brother Peter's side. Yet in this novel the Lusos and everyone in Milagre on the planet of Luistania refer to the Speaker as "devil" even though I think that the speaker is the savior half of his personality. You would think Ender the Xenocide would be the actual Devil. He did murder an entire race. Thumbs up to this awesome novel. Even though this isn't really a good review. I just had to share it with someone. So thank you for reading.