Shadow of the Giant (Ender, Book 8) (Ender's Shadow)

Shadow of the Giant (Ender, Book 8) (Ender's Shadow)
by Orson Scott Card

Shadow of the Giant (Ender, Book 8) (Ender's Shadow)
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Author: Orson Scott Card
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0812571398
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction

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Book Review: Hope of a Sequel overshadows "Giant"
Summary: 4 Stars

I recently read the book, Shadow of the Giant, by Orson Scott Card and thought it was a very good conclusion to the parallel series to the Ender quartet. I find its main downfall is that it doesn't wrap up the plot successfully. Fortunately for me, Card is writing a semi-sequel, called Shadow Flight to draw together the final Ender book, Children of the Mind, and Shadow of the Giant. The plot of this book shows Peter Wiggin's rise to power and how Bean, the giant of the title helps him while searching for his children. He is worried that his children will have the genetic problem that made him so large. This story details the ending of the war in the previous book in the Bean Quartet, Shadow Puppets. It is well written and explains almost everything well. In Shadow of the Giant and the other novels in this series the author almost never shows the passage of time. I was under the impression that all the main characters were between 14 and 16 at the start of the book but from out of nowhere you hear they are between 16 and 20. It is a very interesting book to read and keeps your attention until the last page and beyond. It leaves you wondering two questions, will they find Bean's last child and will they find the solution to Anton's Key? Finally I would like to say that I would not recommend this book to anyone who has not read the rest of the Quartet, and I would not recommend the Bean Quartet to anyone who has not read the Ender Quartet. However I would recommend both series to everyone in order.

Summary of Shadow of the Giant (Ender, Book 8) (Ender's Shadow)

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.

For Earth was at war -- a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth -- they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic Ender's Game, and its parallel, Ender's Shadow.

Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family -- something he has never known -- but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies -- old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.
(09/10/2005)

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