A quick primer on Ender . . .In the future, Earth has been attacked once by the Buggers, an alien race of insect like creatures, and Earth's unified military expects another attack. To prepare for the impending invation, the best and brightest children are recruited into Battle School--a highly adv...
Orson Scott Card takes a project that was intended as a multi-author book and turns it into yet another novel in the Ender series that was essentially already told from a different angle, thereby grinding my agates in the process. There is no way this character is worthy of 8 books. This one is bett...
First Bean book. I love the way Card reweaves the story he told in Ender’s Game, making it both the same and different. And I found it quite emotionally touching as well, particularly the final battle scene and the end. [July 2011]
I may be alone here, but I strongly feel that this book takes something away from Ender's Game and I wish I wouldn't have read it. The subsequent sequels I enjoyed, as I like Bean and Petra and Peter, but this one . . . this one just sucks all the fun out of it.
Definitely a step up from Ender's Game. Bean is just a more interesting, less whiney character than Ender is, and his back story is a lot better. Card shows his maturity and the lessons he learned from Game this time around. There is still a lot in this book that I would call "campy," but it's a...
I loved the whole Ender's Game series. Recently someone told me that years later Card wrote this shadow series. It is about Bean, and I really enjoyed it.
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