I was required to read this book for my summmer reading. I looked at it and groaned, because I used to think that all science fiction books were stupid and boring. After I read this one, I was really surprised. I finished it in 3 days, because it was so good. After I read this, I read Ender's Game, and that was good, too, but I liked reading the story in Bean's point of view more. This just goes to show that science fiction doesn't have to be boring!! I really loved this book.