Although this book was not as good as Ender's Game, it is still a great read. For a long while I could not put this book down because of the suspense and mystery. The book starts out with the planet Lusitania, a colonist planet settled Portegeuse Catholics, where the only other intelligent race, the Pequininos or piggies for short, live. At first the piggies are regarded as an animal and not a real race. The people study them and are fascinated with their culture. But they cannot ask the piggies a direct question. Meanwhile Ender lives on the ice planet known as Trondheim. He is a speaker for the dead, but not the Speaker for the Dead because this book takes place over 3 thousand years in the future.