By ORSON SCOTT CARD
I read this in less than 24 hours a couple weeks ago. Card continues not to disappoint. I recommend Ender's Game- his most well known book- to everyone. Only one person I know of who had read that book has not liked it. Shadows in Flight is the latest in the Bean series. Bean was always my favorite character and I enjoyed his series more than Ender's. I love how they work together and as more and more books come out they further explain things that occurred in the other series. In my mind, I still imagine Bean as this little pip squeak of a person, but in this book he is as giant as he will ever be. It is interesting to think of him being so smart and so wise, but being younger than me! Of course, he was created to be like that.
This book was short, but told a part of the entire Ender's Game story that had not yet been told and that I had never even considered. It did it in a way that was not cheesy, overly dramatic, or ruined the original story in the least. It actually have me a new appreciation for the original story and the players in that.
I enjoyed the characterization of Bean's children. They are very real and believable for the world they have been pushed into. I pity them and I wish I could help them. I hurt for Bean and Petra having to leave their children not knowing their outcome. I hope Scott continues their story so we know what becomes of them, whether good or ill. I wish we learned more the children who stayed on earth with Petra- if their personalities align with the personalities of the three children with Bean and the last child Ender connects with in his series. Bean and Petra were remarkable people, after all.
The ending- I don't know what to say without spoiling it, even though it's very predictable. I cried. If I wasn't home with my toddler I probably would have sobbed for a good long while.
The story is new, but goes so well with what we already know of Bean's world and the Hundred Worlds. It brings us back to the original feeling of the story when you hear the children bickering back and forth even though they are geniuses.
I am so excited for Ender's Game the movie to come out in November. I do not expect them to make any of the other books into movies, I don't think anyone would care as much about those in cinematic form. But Ender's Game has needed to be made.
Thank you, Orson Scott Card, for all the works you have given me so far. For the hours of reading and re-reading I have spent with Ender, Dink, Petra, Bean, and Alai. Thank you for the connection between Ender and Peter and Valentine. Thank you for this new world.
"You can't command men in war if you don't know how to trust, and you can't defeat an enemy if you don't know how to love." -Bean, Julian Delphiki
"I'm in the middle of something and I'm holding a lot of things in my head right now. I'd like to postpone our little chat until a more convenient time." -Ender Delphiki- how often I wish I could say that to people
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