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Summary: Excellent reading!!! Card's a master storyteller!
Review: No one but Orson Scott Card could have pulled this off so successfully! Bean is a character you are immediately drawn to and stay that way without feeling any "disloyalty" to Ender. It was fascinating how this new perspective made an already familiar story new and exciting! While ES indeed stands on it's own, I found it enriched the whole Ender experience and it inspired me to read the entire Ender series again! I advise all to do the same!
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Summary: Card is at the top of his "game"!
Review: You will absolutely fall in love with Bean, the new hero in this novel. If you loved Ender, you will love Bean just as much, maybe more! This is an intense read to the end -- even though readers of Ender's Game "know" how it ends, there are a lot of surprises. I couldn't put it down. Don't miss this one!
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Summary: SUPER
Review: Enders Shadow is the best novel I've read since The Triumph & Glory, and that was way last summer. Orson Scott Card is one of the best writers we have and Ender's Shadow ranks among his best ever. I enjoyed it very much!
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Summary: After Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow is a must-read!
Review: While the later Ender books were good, they were quite different in tone from Ender's Game. Ender's Shadow recaptures much of the original feel. Sure, you know how it ends, but the journey there is an excellent read!
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Summary: As hard as it is...
Review: Writing a parallel story is often excruciating and reading them is often worse, but Orson Scott Card has struck gold. To see this powerful and moving story through the eyes one other than the "hero" was phenomenal. Bean's life is one that I hope to follow with the same fervor as i and millions have followed Ender.
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Summary: Increadibly wonderful! MUST READ!
Review: When I was walking down the hall of my local mall, and saw 'Ender's Shadow' in the window of the nearest book-store, I had to rush right in and buy it. I didn't even know OSC was coming out with another Ender book. I could not have made a better purchase. I devoured the book in less than a day, and loved every minute of it. I doesn't take anything away from the original as a few reviews here seem to say, in fact it added to it. Ender is still the true hero, but he had help. Even if Ender didn't know it, Bean was right there to help him do what he was born to do. If you haven't already bought this book, go right now and get it. If you haven't read the original 4 books, go out and buy all 5. Call in sick to work and read them all!!!
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Summary: It's good, but some things drive me crazy!
Review: Like many other reviews I was intrigued by the idea of Card writing a parallel novel to a story which had already been told (kind of a Sound and the Fury idea). The first four or five chapters, Bean's life in Rotterdam really grabbed me, and I knew I would finish the book, but . . . (and there's always a but). . . not as fulfilling as Ender's Game for at least two reasons: First, Bean is not really the "hero" of the story, Ender is. Because Ender is still the "best" or the real "leader", it is like hearing the second tier story. I felt myself wanting to know more about what Ender was thinking and feeling rather than Bean. Second, although Card must have realized this going in, it is extremely difficult to tell a story more than once and make it interesting. While Ender's Game fans will like it (including myself), I believe that a sequel to Ender's Shadow will hold my attention longer because I won't already know the plot. Even with OSC's character development, which is second to none, I found myself bored towards the end because I knew what was going to happen having read Ender's Game. (It's similar to the Star Wars prequels - Where's the suspense if you know how it will turn out?!) Card fans will all want to read it, if only for the setup to its sequel.
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Summary: Excellent read.
Review: I've long considered "Ender's Game" (EG) one of my all time favorite books. I read "Ender's Shadow" (ES) in about a day (damn work anyway!) and then had to go out and buy a copy of EG (I'd given my copy away) and reread it in one night while my housemate read ES non-stop. Neither one of us really remembered Bean from EG. To quote my roomie, "Little Bean really sucks you in." I really liked getting to really know so much of what happened behind the scenes of EG which ES effectively unfolds and SHOWS us rather than telling us which is all that EG could have done. I read one criticism that there's no way Ender would have not know about Bean but I disagree. The battleschool was filled with the brightest and smartest kids. Everyone was brilliant and the only ones who really stood out were the bullies. Except for the "launchies" that Ender was working with in his extra practises, he wouldn't have been aware of the younger kids that didn't come into his scope of operation. Bean pointedly avoided Ender. I highly recommend "Ender's Shadow". And I recommend immediately rereading "Ender's Game" afterwords. I ALMOST wish OSC could do a rewrite of EG because ES is so much more detailed about so many things. I wouldn't have him take away a thing from EG but wouldn't mind stuff being added. Afterall, EG was originally a short story.
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Summary: Prepare to put your life on hold..
Review: Amazing, incredible book - a long-time fan of Ender's Game, I was sucked back into the Battle School. I walked around for four days not really part of THAT world, but THAT one (four days because, after reading Ender's Shadow, I of course had to go back and re-read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead....) A sympathetic world for those of us who feel like Enders, or Beans..
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Summary: Should have been more
Review: It was a great book ,but i just thought there should have been more at the end. theres hould have been somthing about the wars after the bugger's defeat.
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