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A review by sarahannedipity
Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card
5.0
I read Ender's Game years ago on the recommendation of my older brother. I immediately fell in love with the story and gobbled up every book available. I'll admit that of the two parallel stories in the Enderverse, I prefer the novels that follow Ender's story. However this book might be the exception to the rule.
Aside from Ender's Game itself, this is my favorite of the Enderverse. While there isn't much action to this novel, it tells an incredible story. Throughout the other novels in the Shadow series Bean remained, in my mind, the tiny child that he was in Battle School. Even as he formed a relationship with Petra and worked for Peter, he was still the tiny bean that made tiny Ender seem full grown. Shadows in Flight for the first time puts Bean into his place as the giant he has grown into. With children of his own, now grown to the age he was when we first met him, Bean has a depth that I don't remember seeing before.
Admittedly Bean falls to the background of this story. His three children who had Anton's Key turned are the focus and drive of Shadow's in Flight. While in the Speaker novels I resented the transition away from Ender as the focal point, I look forward to getting to know Bean's 'antonine/leguminote' children and their futures.
Aside from Ender's Game itself, this is my favorite of the Enderverse. While there isn't much action to this novel, it tells an incredible story. Throughout the other novels in the Shadow series Bean remained, in my mind, the tiny child that he was in Battle School. Even as he formed a relationship with Petra and worked for Peter, he was still the tiny bean that made tiny Ender seem full grown. Shadows in Flight for the first time puts Bean into his place as the giant he has grown into. With children of his own, now grown to the age he was when we first met him, Bean has a depth that I don't remember seeing before.
Admittedly Bean falls to the background of this story. His three children who had Anton's Key turned are the focus and drive of Shadow's in Flight. While in the Speaker novels I resented the transition away from Ender as the focal point, I look forward to getting to know Bean's 'antonine/leguminote' children and their futures.