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Nov 18, 2014danielestes rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Taking an immensely popular novel and rewriting it again only this time from another character's point of view isn't a good idea, right? The result would pale in comparison to the original or at worst be a complete disappointment and immediately shunned. Not in this case. Ender's Shadow, Card's parallel novel published fifteen years after Ender's Game, succeeds in almost every way it shouldn't. Book one of this Shadow Quartet revisits the geopolitical near-future Earth that Card barely had a chance to explore in the original Ender books, but more importantly it's a definitive look at the character of Bean, one of the key players in Ender's battle against the buggers. At points you'll want to roll your eyes at how brilliant Bean is portrayed. It's almost unbelievable. But it still works in the context of who Bean is and where he comes from. My favorite moments are getting to climb aboard again at Battle School, which is every bit as exciting to read here as it was in Ender's Game.