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Title: Impressive and captivating retelling of the game
Review: I picked this book up in hopes of regaining the sensation I experienced when I read Ender's game, and although you do know the end of the story this time through, it is still captivating.Bean is not a "surrogate Ender", in fact the story feels very differently when told from his perspective. I really enjoyed the insights into the characters when seen from Bean's perspective.Bean is at times better and worse than Ender and in the end, he is not as good of a General. He may have a higher IQ than even the vaunted Ender Wiggen, but he does not have the leadership, the intuition and the guts that Ender has. Bottom line, Bean is a Longstreet not a Lee.A fascinating tale and very much worth the time and the energy to read. I found it a wonderful complement to Ender's Game and not simply a way for Card to cash in on the same story twice.
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