{"id":3046,"date":"2013-12-09T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2013-12-07T19:38:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T01:38:43","slug":"rereading-enders-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"Rereading Ender’s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ender'sEnder’s Shadow is a companion novel to the better-known Ender’s Game, a parallel story told from the point of view of another character — Bean. I loved Ender’s Game (as you can see in my recent review of that book), but I love this one even more. I give Ender’s Game 5 stars, but I would give this one 6 if I could. I’m not sure why I like this one more than I liked Ender’s Game except that I loved Bean. He’s remarkable and tragic and I just plain love him. Ironic, I suppose, since the novel claims that Bean might have been chosen to fill Ender’s role, except Ender had one quality Bean didn’t have — empathy and charisma. People would die for Ender, but Bean is just a know-it-all. Well, he really is! He has a genetic “defect” that gives him off-the-charts intelligence. It saved his life, and as we find out in this book, it helped Ender to his victory, though Ender never realized.<\/p>\n

I recalled Ender’s Game as being a psychological story. In truth, *this* is the psychological story. I think after a decade, I blurred the two stories together in my mind. Both are excellent. Both should be read. They could honestly be read in either order, although I tend to recommend reading them in the order the author wrote them, with this second. But if you liked Ender’s Game at all, don’t stop there! This is just amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ender’s Shadow is a companion novel to the better-known Ender’s Game, a parallel story told from the point of view of another character — Bean. I loved Ender’s Game (as you can see in my recent review of that book), but I love this one even more. I give Ender’s Game 5 stars, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[69,493,489,18,38],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-science-fiction-what-im-reading","tag-christine-amsden","tag-enders-shadow","tag-orson-scott-card","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}