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REVIEW OF ENDER'S SHADOW Following is a review of Ender's Shadow from Brigham Young Magazine, the BYU alum mag. [Brigham Young Magazine, Winter 1999-2000, pages 51-52.] It is by Richard H. Cracroft. It has a few spoilers so only read it if you have already read the book. Well, actually you can read the first paragraph, just not the second. AB ************************************************************* And now comes Card's latest triumph, Ender's Shadow (New York: TOR, 1999; 380 pp.; $24.95). Not a sequel but "a parallel novel to Ender's Game" (published in 1985 and currently in production as a film), Ender's Shadow has climbed nearly to the top of the Amazon.com, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times bestseller lists. Ender's Shadow begins and ends at the same points as Ender's Game and features many of the same characters and events. But this time these events are seen through the eyes of Bean, another child warrior who is even younger and more intellectually gifted than Ender. Bean must learn how to survivie in a terrible world, how to outwit adults seeking to exploit his powers, and, most important, how to understand, acquire, and practice the puzzling morality of self-sacrifice, compassion, and love which motivate Poke (who dies for him), Sister Carlotta (who lives for him), and Ender (who shows him how). Ender's Shadow is a powerful tale of an interstellar superboy who learns to love and be loved, a page- turner par excellence in which the inimitable Card outdoes himself--even outdoes, I think, his classic Ender's Game. |
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