Shadow Puppets (Ender, Book 7)
by Orson Scott Card
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Author: Orson Scott CardEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-06
ISBN: 0765340054
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Book Reviews of Shadow Puppets (Ender, Book 7)
Book Review: A Three Hundred Page Punctuation Mark.
Summary: 4 Stars
This by far is the weaker book in the whole Ender/Bean saga, but this isn't due to Card losing his stuff or anything quite that dramatic. The fact of the matter is that this is the last two hundred or so pages of book 6. Before the story could move anymore (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER) Achilles had to be killed. I'm guessing that adding that to the sixth book would have made it longer than the publisher liked, and thus what was probably one hundred pages of story had to be fleshed out, and thus diluted. I just finished reading book 8 and let me tell you that this was a wholly necessary step in the story.
As for the lack of science fiction, I can admit that it isn't totally traditional sci-fi at this point, but it's still got most of the characteristics. Anything in the future, after alien bug invasions, with colony worlds, and faster than light communication, well yeah that counts as sci-fi to me. I think the biggest problem is that Card is a total sci-fi guy, and when he tries his hand at romance it comes off like a Bollywood movie. And the babies thing, the emphasis on having tons of babies, is a natural reaction of the characters to the end of the birth control laws. That probably explains why there seems to be an ongoing breeding infatuation.
Anyway, this book is good, but the others are great. But we need all in the series to make it work, so this one does it's job well enough. It can't live up to the intrigue of the others, but it makes the eigth book possible. And the eigth was really worth it. At least we can be thankful that they haven't become as whacked out as the last two Ender books.
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