Ender's Shadow

Ender’s Shadow was written by Orson Scott Card, author of other books, such as Speaker for the dead and Enders game.  Ender’s Shadow is a parallel novel to Ender’s Game, with the same characters, same story line, same settings, and same timeline, except focused on another character in the story; Bean. The book focuses on Bean’s struggles and life, eventually melting into the same story as Ender’s Game.

Bean is a tiny genius child living in the streets of Rotterdam on earth. The streets are a place ruled by children and teenagers where food is scarce and survival is even harder to obtain. Bean falls into a family of children led by a girl passing as a boy named poke. after a serious turn of events, a nun discovers bean and his intellect and sends him up into battle school, away from earth, where she believes he belongs. Bean starts immediately assessing everybody else in battle school, being the smartest there. Bean is studied by the teachers, and some become convinced that him, and not his companion, Ender Wiggin, is the one to lead earths armies against a hostile alien race.

I really enjoyed this book because it is filled with action and conflict. The book is very well structured to keep the reader predicting on what could happen next. The book is incredibly detailed and written, so the reader can be sucked into the story as if though they were in the story. Filled with fantasy and scientific fiction, Ender’s Shadow is a great book for those who enjoy scientific fiction, action, space, and fantasy books. 

Book Review by Bryan R.