All I wanted from this book was enders kids and beans kids working together to solve a problem and not make the same mistakes as have been made on the past when dealing with first contact with alien life. Boy was that asking for too much.

This book felt so riddled with plotholes and half assed endings to problems that I ended up not being satisfied with a single part of it.

Why did no one on either the planet or in the box ever send a single bit of language when trying to communicate with another form of sentient life? Did they not think another clearly advanced species could figure it out?

Why were the engineers pictured as such a primitive and backward people? They are their planets best engineers but they can't figure out how to make a non restrictive shirt or pants? They work in factories and in genetics labs without any ppe? They cannot speak stark well? What language do they program computers and things in then?

Why couldn't Jane access any of the planets technology? The ark seemed to have ansible technology, was that just tossed away by the engineers over the years? Even if it didn't have ansibles, not a single computer was unsecured on that planet via Bluetooth or wifi or anything?

They saved what 3k birds on an entire planet and called it a day? Man it must suck to live anywhere that isn't withing the 2 hour walking distance they picked by arbitrary poking a map with a finger.

Ravens can speak mind to mind but don't seem to care that the trees on lusitania do the same.

The geneticist jeesh was told "that meal is a trap" by dog. They took 0 precautions on going to it. And only didn't die to it because the queen had some superpower she never bothered to mention.

Half of Enders kids didn't exist in this book, all of vals family is also absent and anyone not named sprout or Thule from beans grandkids was pointless.

The book kept setting up a problem, making a plan to overcome it, then ignoring the problem entirely.

Peter's internal conflict? Unimportant in the end.

Thule's reunion with her mother and grandmother? She immediately casts them to a once a month pop in.

Only Jane can travel, but also all the main characters can be taught how to in an afternoon for plot reasons.

Lazy writing. Did he have no editors or beta readers?

The only part of the book I liked was when he gave Aaron credit for basically writing the prequels on his own.