Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Forgot to mention that I also read Orson Scott Card’s “Ender in Exile“, which I find to be a good, but rather schizophrenic book. I can’t figure out which story he’s trying to tell. There are at least 3 story lines that happen, and I think I’d have preferred if they were dealt with in a “Book 1, Book 2, Book 3″ style instead of just mostly jumbled in. While I was able to follow the stories, I didn’t think they had much to do with each other, or not enough that it was interesting to have them intermixed. Maybe I’d have just preferred to have three short stories instead of the novel-length version. Either way, I was not unhappy with the book, but I felt like there could have been a stronger way of telling the same content.