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Summary: Bean's my Hero! :)
Review: Loved it! Couldn't put it down. Burned through it once and then read it again. I liked the different perspective from ender's game. Although there where a few things mentioned in this book that you think would have been hard to avoid telling in the previous book. I would have liked to know a few more things at the end of this book. (ie: does Bean and Ender's path's every cross again) Only a few discrepencies from the original but all in all a great book. Go buy it now! Remember the enemy's gate is down!
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Summary: Once again we're pleased by Mr. Cards work
Review: I must admit I was a bit apprehensive on whether Scott could make this concept of a parallel novel work. I shouldn't have worried. He left me gasping the way the original Ender's Game did many years ago.This book delivers on several levels. Astute political and military processes are thoroughly thought out. Look forward to the next novel in Ender's universe. BTW, I thought Urchin, Scott's original title, would have been a better title.
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Summary: Great
Review: This book was great! I'm a longtime Card fan, so I loved this book. It's most similar to Ender's Game, which I also loved, but you don't have to have read EG to get Shadow. I've reccommended it to everyone I know- Read, it, you'll like it.
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Summary: Excellent Book with completely different point of view,
Review: I ate this book up! I've always loved the book Enders Game and have read it a few times. I was a little bit leary of this book at first...How could it compare to Enders Game?...but it proved to be just as thought provoking and interesting. What I like most about this book is that it told a story set, for the most part, in the same place as Enders Game, but from a completely different view point. This book opens our eyes to another side of humanity...or lack there of. The struggles are to become human, rather than objective about humanity.
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Summary: Addicting read with minor flaws
Review: I found this book addicting just as I found all the earlier novels in Card's Ender series. While it was not as engaging or profound as the first three books in this saga, I still found it an entertaining book that provided new insights into the story of Ender, and brought a new image to Bean. I believe the biggest flaw in the novel is Card's stretch to make the new Bean fit the old Bean's dialogue, and during those moments I found myself waiting for them to end so the new Bean would return. I still give it five stars, even though it doesn't compare in my mind with Game, Speaker, and Xenocide, because to me, those deserve six. But for anyone who loves the Ender series as I do, this is a must-read.
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Summary: Ender's Game only scratched the surface...
Review: To begin, the four stars do not mean that this is four-fifths as good as Ender's Game; I'm merely pointing out that it's not quite as good. But I suspect that someone who read this first might have the opposite reaction...anyway, here's my justification. Ender's Game can never be repeated. It is unique. It is so simple yet so profound that it defies description. One does not read it; for a few hours, one lives it. That indefinable surreal quality is what Ender's shadow lacks, but I wouldn't ask for it again. This book has a fascinating story, well told, intense, and gripping. I don't want to give away detail, but the amount of depth it adds to the character of Bean, and the entire story, is amazing. I have noticed a decline in Card's recent books (Children of the Mind, Pastwatch, etc.), so I was pleasantly surprised by this. However, it isn't written in quite the same style. It's not as immediate or intense. (Still can't find the right words. If you read Ender's Game, you know what I'm talking about.) And I wish he had refrained from making Bean so much smarter than Ender. Part of the appeal of Ender's Game was the mystique of "the one," alone. Suddenly we find out that Bean can do everything Ender can, except he's not likable enough. Hmm... Also, the idea that Ender was the only one in Battle School who hadn't heard about Bean--and no one bothered to tell him!--is a bit implausible.
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Summary: Ender's Shadow is a fine and powerful read.
Review: Ender's Shadow is an excellent novel on its own and an excellent supplement to the novel it parallels, Ender's Game. In some ways, I think the newest book surpasses the first in emotional scope because of the protagonist's (Bean's) preternatural understanding of the events. The war that to some degree in Ender's Game remains abstract, becomes emotionally real and close in Ender's Shadow. That aside, Bean's personal horrors are at least as compelling as Ender's, though markedly different. I would recommend that newcomers to the series begin with Ender's Game, though. It remains the foundation on which the other stories are built.
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Summary: As good as Ender's Game, but a different read altogether.
Review: Go get it and read it now. Right now
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Summary: Good, But not as good as Ender's Game
Review: I feel in love with Ender's Game as soon as I first read it the entire concept was so perfect. When I heard about Ender's Shadow I got it as soon as it was released, and read it before the night was over. I was frankly disappointed, while Card does suceed in making the opening incredible and I throughly enjoyed Graf I found Bean's later history...disappointing. While in Ender's Game the you got to see Valentine and Peter aswell as Ender in Ender's Shadow Card creates a "super" human out of Bean. It ruined it for me, some of the moments were good, but the entire brother thing was just a little too much cheese. I was especially disappointed by the ending, half of what made Ender's Game so good was the fact Ender could never return. It was still a great read but not nearly as good as I could have hoped.
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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: I am an avid reader of OSC, so I was excited to read this over a couple of days. This is a great book. I was engrossed completely. However, the last chapter seemed a bit too "nice." I also had to suspended belief on some of the age-related abilities of the main character in order to continue through the book. Still a great read. To say that this book diminishes Ender is a misread. Reading this book allows the reader to compare and contrast the two characters. Pure intellect, intellectually-developed social ability, and intellectually-developed creativity versus great intellect, intuitive social ability (empathy), and natural creativity. It also allows a greater view into the book's adults, and their maltreatment of greatness for a more important purpose. I did not feel as much for this main character as I did for Ender, because Ender lost everything, whereas this character has an opposing outcome.
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