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Saved you money. Man, I hate this book. Do you have any idea how young these characters are when they get married and decide to have babies even though none of their relationship is believable? You have a gay dude lecturing them about marrying people of the opposite sex and having babies, but how the hell is being two legal gay people together such a bad thing but two CHILDREN marrying such a good thing?

Never mind that them having kids didn't even make any kind of logical sense in this book? In fact the whole plot is people doing something stupid and bad things happening as a result. View all 28 comments. Nov 16, Alex rated it did not like it. I've got to speak some truth to power: This is a lousy book. Ender's Game was pretty cool. The other three books in the Enderverse were progressively less good, but still all right.

The first two books in the Beanverse or whatever we want to call them But this one. Oh my. Why did I finish this? I admit that I read half of it six months ago, was so bored with it that I put it down again, and then just recently finished it up because I didn't have anythi I've got to speak some truth to power: This is a lousy book.

I admit that I read half of it six months ago, was so bored with it that I put it down again, and then just recently finished it up because I didn't have anything else I was willing to commit myself to. What makes this book awful , even amongst the relative standards of Orson Scott Card who is not exactly a spry writer , is the writing.

The entire book consists of one unrealistic, idiotic, poorly-written dialogue after another, where two "geniuses" decide to hash over strategy again and again and again. There's about 10 minutes of action in the entire book, and absolutely zero new, interesting ideas.

And heaps, heaps, and heaps of crazy-ass neo-conservatism. The strategy is dull "We'll attack them, then these other guys will roll in, and then those guys will switch sides! Ender Scott Card has officially made me hate the word "baby. The characters just can't shut up about babies for the last quarter of the book. It's a curious thing for all of the world's super-geniuses to spend their time hashing over.

Yes, yes, it serves the slow-as-mollasses plot, technically, but jeez. Enough already! The worst is when Card tries to write pillow-talk and love-talk. Did he grow up on the set of a Lifetime movie?

The dialogue reeks. And goes on and on and on. If I had been the editor, I'd have named it Sock Puppets , because that's about as much individual personality as any character has in this stinker, and you could, without any difficulty, re-enact the entire contents of this book as a series of dull conversations between socks-on-hands.

So this book is where I draw the line. Goodbye, Enderverse! I should have quit while you were ahead. Probably shouldn't have started the Beanverse. But definitely should have stopped before Shadow Puppets , which is one of the few complete one-stars I've given a book. Totally boring and totally stupid. Also I was really surprised that he cites Guns, Germs, and Steel as some kind of "inspiration" for the strategic discussions in this book.

Don't let Mr. Card's endorsement keep you from reading GGS — it has absolutely nothing to do with anything that is said in this piece of crap. View all 6 comments. Nov 28, Stephen rated it it was amazing Shelves: ebooks , audiobook , award-nominee-locus , , children-behaving-badly , war-sff , warriors , military-fiction , science-fiction , political-fiction. For this review, we will be discussing the book by Orson Scott Card For those that have not read the Shadow of the Hegemon , there may be some spoilers below as the plot summary deals with the consequences of the previous book.

Despite the title, Peter is really nothing more than a figure head as the major power in the world following the events of the previous book is the Chinese Empire. Standing in their way is the massive Chinese army and the central villain of the Shadow series, Achilles. I am looking forward to reading the last book in the series and seeing how everything ends. Highly Recommend!! View all 12 comments. Shelves: unfinished , reviewed. I used to be the sort of person who prided herself on not quitting a book.

Much as I flit from one project to another, leaving things unfinished, books and movies deserved my full efforts, no matter how abysmal they might seem in the beginning. Thanks to a run of bad novels, I've changed my mind. Life is too short to finish a book that doesn't grip you. It's definitely too short to finish a book that makes you roll your eyes, chapter after chapter. I trudged through the first hour or two of this I used to be the sort of person who prided herself on not quitting a book.

I trudged through the first hour or two of this audiobook with little interest. A rambling quasi-love story, it kept my mind busy while I did my duties as domestic engineer. However, I rarely thought about the story after I'd put it away, and it didn't draw me back in, enticing me to do my chores the way pretty much all of OSC's other books have done.

This should have been my first clue that it wasn't worth it. Then came the preaching. Orson Scott Card, of whose religious and political beliefs I was blissfully unaware until after my first reading of the original Ender saga, claims not to preach through his fiction, unless he says he is as in the Alvin Maker series, which is based loosely on the life of Joseph Smith. I could give him the benefit of the doubt, but that would just mean he is painfully unobservant of the underlying messages in his own writing.

From a diatribe against gay marriage the character given this not-so-subtle soliloquy decides that, even though he's gay, he'll marry a single mother and use his pension to support them. So I've given up. I've got a to-read list a mile long, and I'm sure most of it deserves more attention than this drivel.

Aug 06, Bailey Kleinberg rated it it was ok. As the Ender series progresses each book gets significantly sadder. This book had some fatal flaws however. What happened to Petra?

When did she become a character whose only desire is to pop out a couple of kids and take the minivan to soccer practice? Was she not the best sharpshooter in the whole Battle School? It's as if Card redefines her entire life by the fact that she was the one who cracked up there on Er As the Ender series progresses each book gets significantly sadder.

It's as if Card redefines her entire life by the fact that she was the one who cracked up there on Eros so many years ago. She cracked because Ender pushed her hardest besides Bean who we know is a genetically altered super human who could take it.

So she breaks down, so Bean has to take care of her and all of a sudden she's reliant on him to support her in all things, she's degraded to role of wife and mother and nothing else. All she snivels about is her babies, not the fate of the world. In fact, the theme of women stopping work or contributions to the world and just having babies is mentioned to EVERY female character including the brave Virlomi and Mama Wiggin. But I digress The worst of it was the painfully obvious speech by ::gasp:: gay character Anton who basically says "it doesn't matter if I'm gay, I'm going to marry this woman and make some babies ew, icky, lady parts!

Okay, so we have aliens, space travel, and a gay couple can't get a surrogate and have as many babies as they want? I guess that technology disappeared. Final verdict: if you are a completist like me and just want to read the whole series then you have to do it. If you can let go, do it. This shames the previous books. I could seriously write a book about how he destroyed Petra. I need a drink View all 3 comments. And so the fun begins. Jan 02, Chris Friend rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Ender or sci-fi fans.

This was quite a relief. I'll admit that I'm growing a bit tired of the "Enderverse" as it's so often called. The cast of characters Card created are great, but I'm growing a bit tired of having so many books covering the same people.

The Shadow series was a nice change of pace, but the previous book had been a bit slow in the action, feeling like the author was treading water. Card got a fire lit under his butt. This book makes up for lost time and moves through events quite well. There are a num This was quite a relief. There are a number of crucial moments in the plot that excited me simply because I had no idea how they would turn out, and each time they did so perfectly logically, as though there was no other possible outcome.

Card is great at explaining situations and revealing plot points at just the right moment, providing readers with the right information at the right time, to ensure that the suspense and pacing are moderated exceptionally well. This story is a fantastic example of his abilities. Enough characters are involved, enough plotting is being discussed, and enough ploys are put into motion that it's all quite interesting and even nail-biting-worthy.

This was certainly my favorite book of Card's since Ender's Shadow, and I think this one pulls more adeptly at the emotions. While I didn't cry here like I did for Ender's Shadow , I certainly cared what happened to each of the characters. I had respect for them, I was sad for them, and I laughed with them, all in turn.

An awful lot is revealed about a number of the characters who have been in the stories for quite some time, and the revelations alone are enough to drive the story on. The fact that there are so many twists and turns involved make it that much better. Well, that depends on where one lives But in many northern places, it's usually colder than the rest of the year, with Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter!

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