First and foremost, this was an excellent enjoyable book. The preformance as usual was top notch, if you enjoyed gun meister you and also enjoy space combat you will most likely enjoy star nova. When I say it’s derivetive I can’t help but think of enders game repeatedly. However that’s kind of hard not to do in this genre so it’s forgivable. The sex is there but far from graphic so don’t let that stop you if you are squeamish, it’s more of a suggestion of sex. That said, it’s probably not a book for kids, so all you teens will probably be buying it as soon as the word “sex” entered the review, jokes on you, it’s not porn, should have kept reading. To sum up, yes it strongly reminds me of enders game but that’s OK, it’s a good book to be compared to. The preformance was excellent and I can’t wait for book 1.