Toby D. (bookswapper) reviewed Read after Ender's Game and all the Shadow books except Shadows in Flight on 11/27/2008 + 188 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

I just finished this book and can recommend it for people that enjoyed Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead - this book is a midquel from Ender's point of view, related to his years after battle school and before he visits Trondheim. Was also good to see that the elements of many of Card's short stories have also been incorporated in this book, and it ties up a lot of loose ends from the parallel Shadow books on other former battle school kids, administrators, villains, and explains how Ender wrote his famous books and became so transformed in the later part of the series. Here is my recommended order for reading the books in this series.

Order to read the books -

Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
A War of Gifts
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
Ender's Exile
First Meetings
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Shadows in Flight (not yet published - conclusion of series)

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