Review: The Last Shadow

The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I had high expectations for this book. There has been a long wait since the last in either series. This was the culmination of two series that both started with “Ender’s Game”, split based on two different characters, and meets here in the supposed final story. And the author had left a number of open threads after the last stories of each series that I hoped would have an exciting conclusion.

But this didn’t meet my expectations. The story was focused on one issue, which was concluded in a wishy-washy manner. The author added a number of different beings, and it got to be a bit much dealing with all the different sentient beings that popped up over the last two or three books in the series. Every one has concerns and gets their say here. And it seems some are getting mean, and given the conflicting personalities of the people and beings involved the future appears to be full of problems. These made for a less entertaining and less hopeful story.

The saving grace of the Ender audiobooks has always been the voice actors. But here, there were so many, and they kept returning, that it got confusing. This was my least favorite in the Ender and Bean series.


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