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Title: Makes hash of the original
Review: I thought this book was mediocre, but I thought some things didn't feel quite right. So I checked "parallel" passages from Ender's Shadow and Ender's Game. That was when I realized that this book makes the original incoherent.A great example: in Ender's Game, there are some passages written from Bean's point of view. I found these passages well-written and quite powerful. There's a serious problem: Bean's internal monologue in Ender's Game is nothing - absolutely nothing - like his internal monologue in Ender's Shadow. Consequently, this book effectively destroys one of the best and most interesting characters in his original novel. There's more in this vein, but there's no point in going on endlessly.Furthermore, Ender's Shadow is chock-full of little comments that obviously have no purpose other than to patch up little holes in the original that pedantic readers complained about.
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