Me who loves Orson Scott Card I was very very disappointed, here is a book where nothing happens nothing and still nothing for 500 pages, only a half pages here and the are interesting. Nevertheless, there was some good ideas to exploit (gold beetles, giant ...) but no, we always stay hungry, you turn around, we go to other characters without ever attached to it since they disappear over the pages. I put a star only to mark my fidelity to the author, I had noticed that he tended to falter throughout the sagas but its good ... it's not worthy of him!
