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Title: The second star is optimistic
Review: Okay, metaphor time. If "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" (the two best books in the series) are Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, respectively, then "Ender's Shadow" is The Phantom Menace. Good idea, bad follow-through. The writing is poor, the characters are wooden and not really true to the originals, and worst of all, the main character is so unlikable that one can only hope that he dies soon. The only reason that I gave this book 2 stars is because I hold out the same hope for this series as I do for the rest of the new Star Wars movies. Hopefully, now that the story is set up, the next books will be a vast improvement.
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