This book starts between chapters 14 and 15 of Ender's Game but has events in it from the Shadow series as well. It basically covers the period of Ender's trip to the colony (now named Shakespeare) and what he found there and then his trip to another colony as he starts his search for the right time and place to reveal what he's found. We also find out what happened to the last stolen child of Bean and Petra.
Not a bad book but it's continued the current trend that the Shadow series started which was the downhill spiral of the series. Ender's Game was an outstanding book filled with interpersonal relationships and the psychology of the game. In the Speaker series (at least the first two books before it got totally weird), we had the psychology of the different species learning to interact with each other along with the personal psychological stuff going on. Ender's Shadow had that but the recent books have lost that and what is there has been more forced and less substantive turning these books from the more heavy-hitting sci-fi they were to more of a bubblegum book. Still fun, just not as filling.
Page count: 377p/6475p ytd
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