A review by knuckledown
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

4.0

This is the companion novel to Ender's Game. It tells about many of the same events from the point of view of Bean, a notable but not exactly major character in the first book. Of course, the beginning of this book is Bean's back story, which was completely new. Finding out about Bean was odd in the sense that his in-depth descriptions contained elements that I did not pick up on whatsoever in the other book. I knew Bean was smart and small, but I never got the impression he was superhuman or genetically altered. This can be explained fairly well by the different perceptions driving each book. Bean realizes that Ender isn't aware of how intelligent he is.

Overall I thought Card succeed in retelling a story with enough new details to keep things interesting. He also knew when he didn't need to go into detail because, well, we already read that book.