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A review by rpych2
Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card
1.0
The Shadow series started off so well with the the first two books. The first was a retelling of Ender’s Game from Bean’s perspective, and the second was a political drama where Battle School’s most brilliant minds treated the world as their own personal game of Risk. But the third and fourth were pretty bad, there were unnecessary love stories that changed characters in the worst ways and the plots went way off the rails, and I had hoped that this would be a return to the first two. But man, was this one bad.
It was super short, and I guess that’s a positive. But the story moved along at such a slow pace, and the “danger” of the life support systems failing happened so early on in the story. The real main plot line of the story completely changed everything we knew about the Formics from the other books, and it ruined the story to a point. I also didn’t like how Bean’s children were basically direct ripoffs of Ender and his siblings from the original series, even down to one of them being named Ender.
Since the apparent last book is going to be a crossover between the Speaker and Shadow series, I’ll probably wind up reading it. But I wasn’t a fan of this one at all, and I wish this series had kept up with the quality of the first two books.
It was super short, and I guess that’s a positive. But the story moved along at such a slow pace, and the “danger” of the life support systems failing happened so early on in the story. The real main plot line of the story completely changed everything we knew about the Formics from the other books, and it ruined the story to a point. I also didn’t like how Bean’s children were basically direct ripoffs of Ender and his siblings from the original series, even down to one of them being named Ender.
Since the apparent last book is going to be a crossover between the Speaker and Shadow series, I’ll probably wind up reading it. But I wasn’t a fan of this one at all, and I wish this series had kept up with the quality of the first two books.