Ender Wiggin is just pretend-smart—as mentioned in Adam Cadre’s review, his tactics tend to work by authorial fiat. I think HJPEV is much better written, where tactics are concerned.
(As a sidenote, I mentioned HPMOR in the comments to that review and got atleast one more enthusiastic reader for it. :-)
The one time I tried this, it backfired terribly. It seemed like a logical sale, but the war games don’t start until quite a fair way in; meanwhile, the first ten chapters (which is what the first chapter recommends trying before giving up) don’t have that sort of flavour.
Agree on bulleted points, but I thought the armies arc was the best by far. I sell HPMoR to my friends by saying “Ender Wiggin goes to Hogwarts!”
Ender Wiggin is just pretend-smart—as mentioned in Adam Cadre’s review, his tactics tend to work by authorial fiat. I think HJPEV is much better written, where tactics are concerned.
(As a sidenote, I mentioned HPMOR in the comments to that review and got atleast one more enthusiastic reader for it. :-)
The one time I tried this, it backfired terribly. It seemed like a logical sale, but the war games don’t start until quite a fair way in; meanwhile, the first ten chapters (which is what the first chapter recommends trying before giving up) don’t have that sort of flavour.
Huh. I’d thought of MoR as a better version of Ender’s Game before, but for some reason I didn’t catch that similarity.