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Shadows in Flight (Shadow Saga #5)

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Ender’s Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...

At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life.The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth’s scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avai...more

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Published January 17th 2012 by Tor Books

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Aug 05, 2012 Kaitlynn rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: owned, sci-fi-fantasy

What could have been an epic reunion between Bean and Ender that wraps up the final mysteries of both Anton's Key and the language/biology of the Descoladores instead quickly spirals into a blatant re-hash of previous works, except without the depth and psychology of the original novels.

We begin on the generation ship Bean and his 3 Anton-turned children fled earth upon. The children, two boys and a girl, are named Ender, Sergeant, and Carlotta. Sergeant is overly vicious and desperate for appro...more What could have been an epic reunion between Bean and Ender that wraps up the final mysteries of both Anton's Key and the language/biology of the Descoladores instead quickly spirals into a blatant re-hash of previous works, except without the depth and psychology of the original novels.

We begin on the generation ship Bean and his 3 Anton-turned children fled earth upon. The children, two boys and a girl, are named Ender, Sergeant, and Carlotta. Sergeant is overly vicious and desperate for approval. Carlotta is malleable and gentle. Ender strikes the balance. Sounding familiar yet? With the honorific names, Card is no longer even pretending to come up with original characters, but instead re-explores the same dynamic without taking the time to build up or explore the actual characterization.

There is a lot of telling and no showing in the novel. Gone are descriptions of context and behavior that lead to deductions on Bean and Ender's part. Instead, the children tell us in their mind what they have decided and how things will go, without either process or evidence. Characterization is the same way. We are told Carlotta bends to Sergeant's will, but we rarely see her capitulate in any way beyond a simple occasional favor.

The 'crisis' of the novel comes too early. I really didn't give a shit if the life support was going out. I had known the children for all of 10 pages and none of them had been interesting or endearing. Bean was functionally out of the picture, doomed to die and residing in the cargo bay of the ship in a near vegetative state. What little Bean does say or do, his children say seemingly decades before him. Either that or he reminisces. There's a lot of reminiscing. Like, a lot.

Lastly, the last third of the book undermines the entire message---the entire POINT---of the entire Ender line of novels. Completely and irrevocably. For a book that tries to latch onto my nostaglia using Bean's memories of Ender, it seems to fail to understand the significance of those memories, that plot and history that came before. Sometimes these things can add complexity and depth, but in this case, the depth was already there, and these changes were trite and shallow, much like the rest of the novel.

A minor nitpick is that Card didn't go all-in with Bean's disability. In previous novels, doctors stipulated that removing limbs could drastically lengthen Bean's life. If Bean is to be a tragic character as he's been presented, well, don't puss out.

This novel ties up some, but certainly not many, loose ends, and in a wholly unsatisfying way. Die hards only.(less)

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Jan 12, 2012 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, as reviewed here is an uncorrected proof of a book that will be published in January, 2012. This novel does not have a stand-alone plot. Card is tying up one of the last loose ends in the universe that he first created in Ender’s Game back in 1985.

Picking up where he left off, Orson Scott Card immediately reminded me why I was drawn to his writing originally. A true “Hard Sci-Fi” novel, is centered around a plausible and explained future. Card proves himsel...more

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Jul 24, 2012 Vivian rated it 1 of 5 stars

Submitting this review of "Shadows in Flight - Enhanced Ebook edition" as a warning to those interested in purchasing this novel for their ebook readers. First, the enhanced edition has pretty pictures, which are illegible on typical black-and-white ereaders. Second, the enhanced edition is an abridged version of the hardcover novel, with less than half the text of the paper version. Third, the "non-abridged" version of the original is only available as an ebook as of 2013. And fourth, I paid th...more

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Jan 12, 2012 Denise Eggleston rated it 4 of 5 stars

I won this book through Goodreads First Reads. I've entered more of the giveaways than I care to admit, and this was my first win. My only problem; this is Book 5 of a six part series. I have never read the first books or even the Ender's Game books also by Orson Scott Card that preceded this series.

So, I read synopses of each book on Wikipedia, which gave me enough background to understand what I was reading. Despite my ignorance of Card's arguably most famous books, I still enjoyed reading it....more

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Apr 03, 2012 Benjamin Thomas rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-books, science-fiction

This is a short novel; only about half of a standard OSC novel so was a pretty quick read. It centers around Bean and his three children, all of whom share the same genetic defect that he has, an inability to stop growing in size, thus rendering the body too large for the organs to support and thus dooming them to early deaths. I found the first 3rd of the book very hard to get through as it focuses on the children who are whiny geniuses. I feel it's probably very accurate in the way 6 year old...more

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May 22, 2012 Chance Maree rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Readers of the Ender series

Shelves: first-reads, science-fiction

First off, the sci-fi element is grand. Wonderful detail concerning mechanical and biological systems, as well as logistical solutions. Well written and easy to read and understand.

Second, OSC had to write genius interior and exterior dialogue - some from adolescent POVs. That could be difficult to pull off, but I bought it. Some of the quips were funny.

I'll stop counting now -- reading sci-fi stimulates my left brain. I have read most of the Ender series, so this installment made sense and ad...more

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Jan 25, 2012 Jennie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: osc, scifi-fantasy

This is another of the sort of follow up books to the Ender/Shadow series. It is a direct sequel to Shadow of the Giant. It follows Bean and his three antonine/leguminote children (meaning the children with the same genetic abnormality as Bean) on their near lightspeed flight through space. I didn't like it as much as I liked Ender in Exile, but it was definitely fun to read another story set in one of my favorite fictional universes. It felt more like experiencing a set length of time in their...more

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Jun 06, 2013 Seth Goldman rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's been a long time since I visited the Enderverse so this was a nice day trip back into OSC's world. I think a lot of the criticism this book gets is unjustified. Sure, the plot arc is a little shallow. Yes, Ender, Carlotta, and Sergeant feel like rehashes of ...Ender, Valentine, and Peter, but they are still unique characters whose development was just a little rushed. In fact the whole storyline spills out a little too quickly - much like an excited child trying to tell you about something...more It's been a long time since I visited the Enderverse so this was a nice day trip back into OSC's world. I think a lot of the criticism this book gets is unjustified. Sure, the plot arc is a little shallow. Yes, Ender, Carlotta, and Sergeant feel like rehashes of ...Ender, Valentine, and Peter, but they are still unique characters whose development was just a little rushed. In fact the whole storyline spills out a little too quickly - much like an excited child trying to tell you about something awesome and skipping over some of the details. I think this is all quite intentional and I see great parallels between the structure of the work being a little immature and the characters themselves "growing up too fast." I am not a great writer so I'm not sure I'm expressing my point very well but there is strong thematic unity in this book if you look at it beyond the surface level. Knowing OSC wrote it after suffering a stroke adds some poignancy to the story, I feel this one was not a cash-in for money but actually a fairly personal tale to him. Love is ultimately the unifying theme in all the Ender books - (view spoiler)

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but I found it an excellent read if a bit short and shallow in content and would recommend it to any fan of the series for the ~~world~~ universe building alone. Fans of Ender's Game who think the rest of the series sucks can go ahead and skip it like all the other great novels in the series they don't understand. (less)

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Jun 04, 2013 Katie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Ok, let me get it off my chest: Go read Ender's Game by Card. It's my favoritestest book ever & is written by this author.

This book is another in the long line of books in the Ender's Game universe. It read more like an extended novella...but wait, isn't that the definition of a novel? Weeellll, not the way Card writes them.

Bean (one of the main-ish characters from Ender's Game) is hurtling through space at near-light speeds with 3 of his genetically enhanced children. While the changes to...more

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May 23, 2013 Tad Hopp rated it 3 of 5 stars

I really wanted to like this book more than I did. Card has long been a favorite of mine and his Ender series and Bean series remain some of my favorite series of all time. Sadly, this one is a bit of a disappointment. It ends the story of Bean but not well, unfortunately. Bean is basically a secondary character in this one and is almost relegated to the background so that his three kids can be the focus. Unfortunately, the three of them really have no personalities and are basically indistingui...more

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May 01, 2013 John Slife rated it 1 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Alright, this sucked.

No offense to Card, but this was a terrible book. I would like to add, before I move on, that the Ender series, both the saga and the Shadows series, are a collection of my favorite books of all time. So it is not that I am not a Card fan, it is just that this sucked.

Basically, I don't even know why this was written. It all seemed rushed and recycled. Bean's three children are yet another personification of Ender's, not even Bean's, personality. Which we got enough of in a b...more Alright, this sucked.

No offense to Card, but this was a terrible book. I would like to add, before I move on, that the Ender series, both the saga and the Shadows series, are a collection of my favorite books of all time. So it is not that I am not a Card fan, it is just that this sucked.

Basically, I don't even know why this was written. It all seemed rushed and recycled. Bean's three children are yet another personification of Ender's, not even Bean's, personality. Which we got enough of in a brilliant piece of work from Xenocide and Children of the Mind. Instead of getting a look into Bean himself, we got Ender again. Don't get me wrong, I love Wiggin more than Delphiki, but the amount of Ender's internal struggle with himself that I got from the Ender's Saga is enough. I know his personality inside out and backwards. And although there is still a strong background on Bean, at the close of the last book he continued to surprise me and I wished for more insight onto his character, since there was another book.

I was looking foward to this book tying in the two series, but it didn't really do that. Instead, it was somewhat independent from the two. Just a bunch of punk kids who were off in space doing their own thing. And the way he could have built the storyline of this book? Card failed at that, too. While I was looking for something philosophical like some of his other books, with a fun sci-fi twist that made me think, all I got was a basic storyline that built too fast and drug on too long with no new character work and poor Bean off lying around because his heart was failing. Which he could have written a lot better as well.

And Bean's death was so disappointing I don't even want to talk about it. Two of the greatest character's I've ever lived through died, one in a rather alright way (Ender) and one in the most disappointing over-too-quick deaths ever.

Also, DON'T BUY THE FANCY EXPENSIVE DELUX EREADER EDITION. It is a cut down version of the book with pretty pictures that I hated.

Thank you, and good day.(less)

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Mar 30, 2013 Walkiria rated it 4 of 5 stars

Este review sería diferente si no me paro a pensarla bien y de paso leo los que dejaron otros lectores. El final, o más bien los últimos capítulos, hacen que uno cambie de parecer y le gusté el libro más de lo que en realidad debería. No esperen que la trama solucione mucho. Para eso la verdad esta mejor Ender in Exile, que rellena muchos huecos. Pero este libro en realidad no siento que aporte mucho, todo lo contrario, añade un hueco más, y más grande. Al principio me harte un poco, la forma de...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Theresa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Bean has become a giant, because of his genetic switch having been turned; three of his children have inherited the genetic abnormality. In order to save them he has left Petra and the children without the gene on earth, to wonder the galaxy in sub light travel, to enable the government to find a cure for the children. He knew he could not survive the journey but at least he can give his children all his love and attention. Carlotta, Ender, and Sergeant (Cincinnatus) have missed out a lot on chi...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Eat5hams rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2013

Just starting on this book, and so far not impressed. I just picked it up, I'm 20% in, and I feel like I've read a one page plot summary. Granted the summary is told with lots of dialogue, but the dialogue feels stiff and unfinished. The characters seem flat and emotionless (I guess they are to some degree and maybe Card thinks by writing them very flat they come off as super-geniuses? Not working for me...)

Hmm... Well I'll keep reading.

Oh, one more thing, I feel like the viewpoint switches bet...more

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Dec 06, 2012 Bet Roberts rated it 2 of 5 stars

At the end of Shadow of the Giant, I couldn't wait for this one to be released. That was a couple years ago, and when I heard that it was finally written, I pre-ordered it. I'd been disappointed in Ender in Exile, but that hadn't been terrible (just forgettable). I was excited to see how this finally ended, and hoped Mr. Card had returned to form.

Dear Lord, were those hopes misplaced. I noticed right away that the book was short. I don't have it in front of me, but I think it barely reaches 300...more At the end of Shadow of the Giant, I couldn't wait for this one to be released. That was a couple years ago, and when I heard that it was finally written, I pre-ordered it. I'd been disappointed in Ender in Exile, but that hadn't been terrible (just forgettable). I was excited to see how this finally ended, and hoped Mr. Card had returned to form.

Dear Lord, were those hopes misplaced. I noticed right away that the book was short. I don't have it in front of me, but I think it barely reaches 300 pages. If these pages were packed with peril, character development, and intriguing plot, this might have been fine, but since at least a third is given over to rehashing (often inaccurately) the old books, the plot feels really thin. Despite it's short length, it still manages to drag on and on and be rather dull.

I didn't care about any of Bean's children, and perhaps that's why it was dull. If the characters are boring, the plot can be the most interesting thing in the world (which is was not), and it will still leave little impact. I've always loved Mr Card for his characters, but these seemed like flat rehashes of everyone else he's ever written. Character traits are shoehorned in and badly exposited during dull (and painfully unrealistic) dialogue. If he had taken more words and shown more of their life on the ship before this, perhaps I would have cared more.

Worse still is the revelation at the end of the book. I won't spoil it, but I will only say that it made me very angry and now I won't be able to read the early books the same way.

However, I did mostly like the parts from Bean's point of view, and I'll admit to getting a little choked up at the last scene, but then again, I cry over Beauty and the Beast.

I'd say don't bother, but if you're buying it, you've probably already read the other books and are kind of looking forward to it. Allow me to crush your hopes and tell you: No, Ender fans. It is not worth it. But neither was Ender in Exile, or A War of Gifts (though both those are better than this.) But you will still buy the next book, and keep buying them as the series continues and Mr. Card lines his pockets with your hard earned cash. At this point, he could write blindfolded and drunk and you would buy it, just to see what happens next.

And the sad part is, so will I.(less)

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Nov 12, 2012 Seth Carney rated it 3 of 5 stars

The genre of my book is science fiction. This book talks about futuristic spacecrafts and has no connections to the present time in technology or real life issues.

I would recommend this book to people who prefer action and biology/chemistry in science. People who like strange aliens would most likely want to read this book since the characters are essentially aliens befriending other aliens. Overall, people who like problem-solving and action could enjoy this book.

I would give this book a 7 out...more The genre of my book is science fiction. This book talks about futuristic spacecrafts and has no connections to the present time in technology or real life issues.

I would recommend this book to people who prefer action and biology/chemistry in science. People who like strange aliens would most likely want to read this book since the characters are essentially aliens befriending other aliens. Overall, people who like problem-solving and action could enjoy this book.

I would give this book a 7 out of 10 because the ending seemed bland. There was no explanation about how the surviving characters life ended up. Did they have future accomplishments or did they just exist without any importance? Plus, the way the book started totally changed by the end; in a way that was hard to understand.

Quotes:
"That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good, and wanted to do right and good more than you wanted to do what you wanted." The quote showed the sacrifice that the characters made for each other. The maturity these kids showed was unprecedented. They showed understanding by completing the task at hand.

"Now he was realizing things without words, or with mere fragments of sentences that did not stand alone; images, feelings swept through his mind and he wondered, Is this how we all think?" This was a turning point in the book. The character who had the duty of figuring out a major problem came through and showed his mental power.

"You would have told us to consider very carefully and you would have weighed the pros and cons for us and then you would have let us decide." Trust issues were a main component for the characters ot overcome. The older trusting the younger and everyone being one cohesive unit solving the same problem, though each having different roles.

Connections:
Ralph Waldo Emerson virtually said in "Self-Reliance", is that the youth are powerful. In this case, the youth were the ones with power. They were the unexpected heroes.

I connect this book to school life. You have to work as a group to accomplish a massive common goal. For some situations, it is impossible to be on your own. The situation calls for your help. If you do not, yourself and everyone fails.

I see myself as the characters Ender and Sergeant. Ender uses his mind and Sergeant uses his might and strategy skills to solve problems. Both are adventurous, talented, and brilliant. I feel like I use these attributes to complete my dreams and goals.
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Sep 26, 2012 Caroline rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: sci-fi, recent-books

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Very disappointed.

I've been looking forward to this book for so long and was expecting it to be a fantastic finish to the Ender/Shadow books. It wasn't.

Mainly - where's the rest of it? Given how long we waited for this book, I expected it to be more tome-like. It felt like OSC had written a short story (which, by the way, tend to be excellent insights into the Enderverse and I love), his publishers had told him to write a book so he pulled this out and added 100 pages of trailing through the For...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Ender's Game is one of my favorite Sci-Fi books. It is a book that go back to and read every few years. When Card started writing his shadow series I had mixed emotions, and was pleasantly surprised by Ender's Shadow. I feel the same for Shadows in Flight, though I think this may be my favorite in the Shadow series.

SPOILERS!!!!!

First in regard to this book, it is a fitting farewell to a beloved character. The book isn't long and though you don' get a whole lot of face time with bean, you do thro...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Theron rated it 3 of 5 stars

Pretty interesting continuation of the Bean saga. Bean is on his near light speed journey with his three brilliant children who will also die of giantism unless they find a cure. I found that I was surprised by the direction the book went, and was intrigued by the characters and how they navigated their claustrophobic environment while thinking about intergalactic and cosmic things. My favorite quote was:

Regarding the use of language in facilitating lies, Bean said, "But let's not call them lie...more

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Jul 12, 2012 Vinitra rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was an...interesting book. As a fan of the Ender's Game series, I really wasn't sure where OSC was going with this one because it felt like most of the loose ends were already tied up, but I did like the new characters introduced (they reminded me a lot of earlier characters from the series, though). (view spoiler)...more

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Jun 15, 2012 Keilani Ludlow rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was in a toss-up between 3 and 4 stars. 3 because of the disappointments, 4 because I just love the series as a whole.

I loved that there was (finally) some follow up to Bean and his kids. In the previous books, they pretty much just disappear into space and that's it.

I don't love that it is short and so feels a little rushed. It seems more like a perfunctory effort to tie up a loose end than a real story which invests in detailed characters. It gives another interesting look into the mind of...more

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May 30, 2012 Michael Knudsen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Just a good book from a legend of 20th and 21st century literature (and great literature can happen within the conventions of most genres, despite what the "experts" think). Really took me back to what I liked most about Ender's Game. Card has a terrific ability to handle points of view of young, super-intelligent children and writes hard sci-fi as well as anyone alive. This hardcover is 237 pages but has the impact and quick readability of a short story or short novella. There are just flat-out...more

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May 15, 2012 Phil rated it 4 of 5 stars

Finally! The concluding book in the Ender's Shadow saga, the series of books following Bean, Ender Wiggin's second from Battle School. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go find and read Ender's Game, and then come back. And then read the rest of the Bean books (Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow of the Giant). I'll wait.

Ok, Shadow's in Flight picks up six years after Shadow of the Giant with Bean in relativistic flight still searching for an answer to his giantism and imminent...more

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May 11, 2012 Peter rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Card fans

Shelves: fiction, library, science-fiction

I don't like Orson Scott Card. There was a time when he was a gifted writer, but that was decades ago. And I'm rather glad of that, I must admit, because his homophobia and religious bigotry offend me.

But Shadows In Flight isn't as bad as most of his recent books have been. Yes, it has the usual "genius" children talking to each other in "shocking" ways; Card seems to find them irresistible. There's even some of Card's trademark child-on-child violence, which makes me wonder just how badly screw...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Dayle rated it 3 of 5 stars

A series comes to an end, well, part of a series anyways. And I'll be up front, I can't decide whether I'm pleased or upset that Bean's story has come to a close.

I was always a bigger Bean fan than Ender, and I practically inhaled Shadow's 1-4 but I never really saw the need to have a #5. The closing of Shadow #4 was final, absolute and Shadows in Flight felt like it was reopening an old wound. I was torn because it's Bean, he's back! But the book moves fast and the reader soon realizes that it'...more

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Mar 24, 2012 Mitch rated it 5 of 5 stars

The best Ender sequel since Ender’s Shadow. This book is closer to an extended short story than a full novel, but I liked it better than any of the novel sequels to Ender’s Shadow because, starting with Shadow of the Hegemon, this series sort of lost its way, becoming more about geopolitics than the character driven stories that made Ender’s Game and its immediate sequels so great, as the character development and character moments, while still there, took a back seat to warmongering and wartime...more

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Feb 25, 2012 Rich rated it 2 of 5 stars

I read the book in one sitting. It's very thin and has lots of space between the lines on a page. It was more of a novella than a novel. That being said, it should probably have been a short story. Maybe a longish short-story.

I'm a big fan of the Ender series and Orson Scott Card in general but there was nothing to this story for me.

It was a travelling story where (and I'm going to not spoil anything here so bear with my vagueness) some people are going from point A to points unknown and they s...more I read the book in one sitting. It's very thin and has lots of space between the lines on a page. It was more of a novella than a novel. That being said, it should probably have been a short story. Maybe a longish short-story.

I'm a big fan of the Ender series and Orson Scott Card in general but there was nothing to this story for me.

It was a travelling story where (and I'm going to not spoil anything here so bear with my vagueness) some people are going from point A to points unknown and they squabble, then make up, then squabble some more. Occasionally the wise mentor one will say something pithy and then they go back to doing it some more. A Deus Ex Machina falls out of the sky and lands in their laps and what do you know? It pulls a House M.D. final 10 minutes trick on us and the book ends.

There wasn't any real tension in the book. There wasn't any sort of real story arc at all in the traditional sense. You know how a lot of Eurpean movies have that feel like you've come in on the middle of something, watched it for a while and then it ends and the credits roll? This book was like that. It's like we got the setup and the end without any real character development, other than long drawn out arguments to show the four differing view points in a wall of dialog that was tired and overdone, and after the set up instead of a dramatic ending, denouement, or climax we just cut that part of the story arc out and went to the resolution of the story.

It was altogether unsatisfying and I'm glad I borrowed the book and didn't pay for it. If you want to know what happens in it look for a wiki entry or check it out from the library but I can't recommend paying hardcover price for it. It's just not worth it which is too bad because I genuinely love this series, minus this book.)

I feel like OSC pulled a "midi-chloreans" on us with this book ret-conning previous books and, for me, wrecking some of the impact of previous novels in the series. I will choose to ignore this book, and may just stop reading the series all together and let it end on a high-note and not a boat-payment-making franchise-milking tone that this book had. It really left a bad taste in my mouth for the Ender-verse and for OSC as an exciting and original story teller.(less)

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Feb 20, 2012 Cathy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction, read-in-2012

It was an enjoyable book because I'm a fan of the series. It's just a stepping stone between the very powerful fourth book in the series and the more substantial book that Card has announced he is writing that will tie much of what happens in this one to what has been happening in his Ender Wiggens saga. Those things that were discovered here that have longer-term implications are interesting and I'm really looking forward to seeing how they play out. It might make some people pretty mad though!...more

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Feb 09, 2012 Keith rated it 5 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Shadows in Flight is a book more about Bean's children than about the man himself, but it is still a great addition to the series and a joy to read. Bean is now a giant and he is both wise and compassionate. He has grown not only in size, but in character. Bean's son, the new Ender, is a lot like his namesake in that he wants to resolve conflict without violence whenever possible, but he also can and will end a fight with one well planned and executed action. The Sergeant is more like Peter who...more

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Jan 29, 2012 JBradford rated it 3 of 5 stars

Orson Scott Card has a predilection for writing about people who are incredibly intelligent, which gives special problems to the author, who has to create the impression that he is attuned to and can convey to the reader the thinking patterns of people more intelligent than he is. While that is essentially impossible, Card does it fairly well.

Bean, Ender Wiggins’ Battle School friend, is now approaching the end of his life as he reaches his early twenties, with the strange DNA change that makes...more

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Shadows in Flight (Shadow Saga #5)

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