Xenocide by Orson Scott Card is the third book in the Ender Games series. It is set in a foreign world called Lusitania. After the people of Lusitania rebel, the Starways congress (the universe's government)  sends a fleet to control the situation. Since Lusitania is so far away it will take them a couple of decades to reach it. Some of the people on Lusitania find out that the fleet is carrying a bomb that is called "the little doctor." The bomb has the power to completly blow up their planet. This is a very controversial decision, because of the piggies. The piggies are an alien life form that only live on Lusitania. So blowing up the planet would be genocide.

           The book focuses on a person living on Lusitania, Andrew Wiggin. Andrew has a one of a kind friend named Jane. Jane has the power to cut off all communications, therefore saving Lusitania. However, cutting off communications would kill Jane. Most of the book focuses on trying to think of a ways to save the lives of Jane and the piggies.
         
            I would rate this book a C+. It had hardly any action and didn't keep me entertained at all. The whole book probably could have been around 150 pages instead of 394 pages. Also a lot of the scenes didn't make sense. They talked a lot about "faster then light travel" and the universe in general. Here is an example of this "There's a space so universally adjacent to our space that philotes can pass into our space." This is how they talk in multiple scenes for paragraphs at a time. Not only does it get repetitive but it get's extremely boring.

           The only good part about this book is the last few chapters. These chapters do have some action and some twists, although the book ends suddenly and doesn't really explain much. I would only recommend this book to a friend that enjoys techie science fiction. This is one of those books that you have to push yourself to read the whole thing, and when you finally get to the end you realize that you shouldn't have wasted all that time reading a book you don't like. All in all this book was boring and hard to read, and I wouldn't recommend it to most people.