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Title: A waste of Card's and the reader's time
Review: Card thanks all the readers who sent in suggestions via his website in the intro to this book. Perhaps he should have ignored them. The story is disjointed and impossible to follow and lacks any of the suspense and excitement that Card created in the earlier Ender novels. Nor does the reader come to care about the characters, previously a Card strength (both in the Ender books and his other work). Perhaps this is because Jane is the focus of the story, and Card has failed to construct a complex being out of an annoying computer program, relying instead on the technological marvel of her self-awareness to carry him through. It doesn't. Overall, a complete and total UGH. I've hesitantly bought Ender's Shadow, and am praying that it is more like the first three than this disaster.
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