A brilliant mind a terrible war

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	• Ender's Shadow (Ender, Book 5) (Ender's Shadow) Orson Scott Card Starscape, 2002 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 638 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I have one gripe

Pretty much everything about this book is fantastic, I only have one problem, Card changed his view of Bean. There is no doubt in my mind that from Ender's game to this, Card completely revamped Bean. You see this in the areas that the books overlap as Card tries to explain what Bean was really thinking or doing, and I just knew that he was full of it.

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Second man strategy psychology.

Card has done something rather impressive here and taken his superb novel Ender's Game and approached it again from the angle of the second most important character.

It details Bean's history, as well, growing up as a runt kid in Europe, near-starvation, and getting by in gangs on his brain alone.

You get to see the psychology of the young man as he goes through the same training programs, but as a far more streetwise and self-aware individual than Ender, the military leaders have decided to use him as a backup and support mechanism, while letting him more in on what is going on.

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A brilliant mind a terrible war

Ender's Shadow is a book about a boy named Bean who goes from a life on the streets to training in military schools in space to defeat an alien race known as the Buggers. The buggers have attacked Earth twice and the students at these military schools are Earth's last hope of survival.
At the military school (a.k.a. Battle school) Bean quickly ascends the ranks and quickly surpasses his teachers. However there is one student who even Bean can't keep up with, Ender Wiggins. Ender is a genius, like all the kids at Battle school: only Ender is more brilliant than any student ever to attend Battle School. Bean quickly grows jealous of Ender but soon grows fond of Ender as they become more acquainted, specifically when Bean is placed in Ender's Dragon army. Dragon army is quickly turned from worst to first and Ender soon realizes just how important Bean is when Bean comes up with plans that almost always work.
Unbeknownst to Bean and even Ender is the oncoming threat that looms just around the corner. The threat that is pushing the students at Battle school beyond their limits, and pushing fast. Bean and Ender are two of Earth's greatest minds but even they might not be ready for the dark truth that Battle school is hiding from them. On top of everything else the Generals of the school grows ever weary of Bean for the General discovers Bean's secret, the reason why Bean is so smart, why he could walk and talk when he was just months old a secret that could destroy Bean's future at Battle school and maybe his life.
Ender's Shadow is definitely one of the better books out there. The many twists and turns throughout the story keep you guessing about what's going to happen next. The way Bean handles his situations and thinks is amazing. The things he goes through and his dark past make Ender's Shadow a definite must read for all audiences.

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