Ruins
- 545
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Our view
“Ruins” carries Orson Scott Card’s Pathfinder trilogy into stranger territory, and suits readers already invested in Rigg and his powers. Some readers enjoy the twists near the end but find the teenage romance weak and the long stretches of reasoning heavy; others tire of the constant quarrelling within the group and like it less than the first book. At over five hundred and forty pages, it leads straight into “Visitors”.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Ruins (2012) is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, who is best known for his novel Ender's Game. This novel is the second book in the Pathfinder series and continues the story of Rigg, and his strange powers, in the events proceeding Pathfinder. It is followed by Visitors (2014), the third in the trilogy. Ruins was published on October 30, 2012 by Simon Pulse.
Reading order · The Pathfinder trilogy
Full order & progress →- PathfinderStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - RuinsThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - Visitors
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 65 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 31% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 65 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Ruins?
It has 545 pages — longer than 72% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
The same shelf — Science fiction — and a score of 7.6, the closest to this book.
