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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
I entered the first reads drawing for this because I had read and enjoyed some of the Ender series. I had not read any of the Shadow series, but was given enough background to be able to not only follow along, but to also be able to thoroughly enjoy the book without feeling like I was missing everything.
I really admire Orson Scott Card as a writer. He really does a superb job creating and developing the characters. The children were profoundly intelligent, yet innocent at the same time. Bean, or 'The Giant' had a great balance between parental protectiveness and having the ability to let go. They all had a fabulous love-hate relationship that is inherint in family with touching nuances borne from being the last of their kind.
The descriptions of life in space and the intricacies of the ship were well thought out and explained in a way that actually let you form detailed pictures in your head, rather than having to dredge up a picture from memory of some space flick that you had seen once. Superb writing style overall. Definitely a book to pass along!
I really admire Orson Scott Card as a writer. He really does a superb job creating and developing the characters. The children were profoundly intelligent, yet innocent at the same time. Bean, or 'The Giant' had a great balance between parental protectiveness and having the ability to let go. They all had a fabulous love-hate relationship that is inherint in family with touching nuances borne from being the last of their kind.
The descriptions of life in space and the intricacies of the ship were well thought out and explained in a way that actually let you form detailed pictures in your head, rather than having to dredge up a picture from memory of some space flick that you had seen once. Superb writing style overall. Definitely a book to pass along!
2.5 stars. least fave of all osc books... but it was a good ending. very short... it wasnt tthat bad but when i think about speaker for the dead and xenocide etc i cant even imagine these two.books being written.by the same author
Interesting short story that brings us one step closer to the end of the narrative of both Bean & Ender Wiggins story lines. Presumably, the next book (Shadows alive) will combine and wrap-up the last narratives in this Universe.
This book is much more fast-paced than some of the denser political philosophy novels that preceded it. The characters are well-written and lively. A good, quick and enjoyable sci-fi read, and it will tide over fans of the Ender saga until "Shadows Alive".
Bean's children seek cure
To their malady, fight and
Travel through space. Short.
To their malady, fight and
Travel through space. Short.
Uneven by comparison to OSC's other books but still a good read, Shadows in Flight shows us what happens to Bean's children. For completists reading the Ender Series, it is perfect.
I just do not like this book.
I wish I did, because Bean was one of my favorite characters from the previous books, and I am hopeful that the sequel will be better. But I don't ever want to read this again (I only read it this time because I had promised myself to reread the entire series).
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read 5/8/2019
reread 2/8/2020
I wish I did, because Bean was one of my favorite characters from the previous books, and I am hopeful that the sequel will be better. But I don't ever want to read this again (I only read it this time because I had promised myself to reread the entire series).
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read 5/8/2019
reread 2/8/2020
Blerk. I was so disappointed with this, writing a review feels like a chore. 1.5 stars. I can't quite downgrade it to one, even though I'm about to not say anything nice about it...
I LOVED the Ender series. I even LIKED the Shadow series, though the heavy-duty politics of the last couple tried my patients. But this... this...
Bean, as an freaking-brilliant infant on the streets of Rotterdam was fascinating and well worth reading about. This story opens with his three like-gened children, aged six, fighting, plotting and bickering like a set of post-grad research PhDs, except... they're SIX and they're HORRIBLE PEOPLE.
Okay, they're not really horrible, but I couldn't bring myself to like any of them at all, not at any point through the entire story. They're whiny, they're calculating, and they're cold. I guess you'd expect whiny out of six-year-olds, but the rest just didn't work for me. Why do I want to see a new human race started by these people who show hardly any humanity?
The Noah's Ark metaphor felt labored. The rest was all philosophy, and even if I agree with it (I'm not sure if I did... I really started to tune out toward the end) it was so boring it did not make for a great read.
And then OSC came on at the end (I read this as an audiobook) and talked about how much love he put into this sucker, and I just wanted to shake him and tell him to go try again.
Fortunately (I guess?) this was NOT the promised conclusion to the series, but just a splinter of an idea that happened along the way. At least it was short.
I LOVED the Ender series. I even LIKED the Shadow series, though the heavy-duty politics of the last couple tried my patients. But this... this...
Bean, as an freaking-brilliant infant on the streets of Rotterdam was fascinating and well worth reading about. This story opens with his three like-gened children, aged six, fighting, plotting and bickering like a set of post-grad research PhDs, except... they're SIX and they're HORRIBLE PEOPLE.
Okay, they're not really horrible, but I couldn't bring myself to like any of them at all, not at any point through the entire story. They're whiny, they're calculating, and they're cold. I guess you'd expect whiny out of six-year-olds, but the rest just didn't work for me. Why do I want to see a new human race started by these people who show hardly any humanity?
The Noah's Ark metaphor felt labored. The rest was all philosophy, and even if I agree with it (I'm not sure if I did... I really started to tune out toward the end) it was so boring it did not make for a great read.
And then OSC came on at the end (I read this as an audiobook) and talked about how much love he put into this sucker, and I just wanted to shake him and tell him to go try again.
Fortunately (I guess?) this was NOT the promised conclusion to the series, but just a splinter of an idea that happened along the way. At least it was short.
This was an okay book. Way too short for the Ender/Shadow series. But I'm glad I did read it.
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the Shadow series, maybe even more than the final books of the original Ender series, but the ending of this book completely ruined this particular installment for me. It seemed to end just as anything real started to happen and the "conclusions" seemed both rushed and glossed over. I hope that what others have said is true and there will be another book in this series that provides the endings that it deserves...