Unlike the previous volume, no surprise here, it is the logical continuation. Valentine will join Miro and his brother. Ender finally live an almost normal family life with Novinha despite pressure from the arrival of the interstellar fleet and researching the descolada that do not progress fast enough. The real novelty we come from a planet far from a priori these problems, called the planet of the Way, whose superior intelligence people but strange behavior seem happy to work with Congress Stellar service.
So we continue in the philosophical side with a lot of discussions and reflections on the relationship among humans, and the relationship of these humans with what they know or do not understand. The Qing-jao history provides enough novelty to not do too much redundancy with the second volume and the risk of destruction of Lusitania gives a stressful side pushing to continue unabated. Hopefully the resolution of the story in The Children of mind is at the height of what preceded it.
