Orson Scott Card - Shadow of the Hegemon Books

Pros: A serviceable sequel - readers of the series won't be disappointed...
Cons: ...but don't read this without first reading Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow

Orson Scott Card continues mining his Ender’s Game universe for new book material. Shadow of the Hegemon brings the tally of books in this setting where a group of the brightest children save the planet from alien invasion to six volumes....

Pros: A linear extension of a series that begins well.
Cons: A drop from its predecessors. As a stand alone novel, it falls, hard.

While reading "Shadow of the Hegemon" I found myself engaged in a running critique. I had a number of observations that I felt might be worth sharing or, more accurately perhaps, That I felt like sharing. Hence this review of a four year old book that ...

Pros: More of Ender's world for Card fans.
Cons: Shallow characters and plot, slow, preachy

I was eagerly looking forward to Orson Scott Card’s latest book, Shadow of the Hegemon. I’ve read almost all of Card’s books, so when a new one comes out I can hardly wait to read it. I would have purchased it as a Christmas present for my...

Pros: It's another addition to Ender's world, which is a rather good one.
Cons: Doesn't have the enjoyment value of Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow.

I've read most of Orson Scott Card's "Ender" books. The book which started them all was "Ender's Game", which told the story of young Ender Wiggin. Taken to a place called "Battle School" at an early age, Wiggin learned military tactics and fighting...

Pros: Wonderful writing, great characters
Cons: Suffers from middle of the trilogyitis

The story of Bean continues with SHADOW OF THE HEGEMON, the second novel in the companion series to Orson Scott Card’s 5-volume set about the life of Ender Wiggin. (NOTE: If you have not read any of the Ender novels, most especially ENDER’S GAME, or have...

Pros: It's an Ender book, so it's worth reading.
Cons: It's almost more like international intrigue book than science fiction.

If you read "Ender's Game," you probably wondered what might have happened after the events of the story took place. (If you haven't read "Ender's Game," you should -- and the rest of this review won't make much sense until you do.)

The first...

Pros: The series provides an interesting character study.
Cons: Unfortunately, that character's getting a bit old.

Bad people wanted to take over the world, and they would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling child prodigies. That's the basic plot of Shadow of the Hegemon, which I think counts as the second book in the Bean series, ...

Pros: great storyline and believable characters
Cons: cliff hanger ending

Shadow of the Hegemon is the second book in Card's Shadow series. The Shadow series is a companion series to the Ender's Game series. Both series talk about the battle school and the war with the Buggers, an alien race of beings threatening Earth. The ...

Pros: what we've come to expect from Card
Cons: same complicated plots

This book is an offshoot of the story of Ender Wiggin, focusing on his second in command from the Formic Wars, Bean. Shadow Puppets is a continuation of Shadow of the Hegemon in which Bean rescues his friends from his enemy Achilles. Now he and Petra must face Achilles revenge.