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While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven't known for nearly a decade, someone's worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender's brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon.
In Shadow of the Hegemon, Card can't help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--Shadow of the Hegemon does a wonderful job of continuing Bean's tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow. --Kathie Huddleston
From Publishers Weekly
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
I was given your idname by a mutual friend who once worked for you but now is a glorified dispatcher-I'm sure you know whom I mean. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Should've stopped at Ender's Shadow...,
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This review is from: Shadow of the Hegemon (Mass Market Paperback)
This was an ok book...definitely NOT one of Card's best books. I enjoyed Ender's Shadow and I guess in a way, it was interesting to see what happens to all the Battle School kids after the war was over. But the plot was not really all that exciting and the character development in the book was starting to get weird. I mean, I enjoyed Ender's Game because it was a book about children. In my mind, these will always be children and when he started having them talk and do grown-up things, it just didn't sit right with me. And then at the end...there was that little insinuation about Bean and Petra... That was bizarre and I didn't like that.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best of Sci-Fi,
By A Customer
This review is from: Shadow of the Hegemon (Mass Market Paperback)
I enjoyed Children of the Mind very much. In this book you can see the aftermath of the Bugger Wars. You can see a better look at Bean,Petra, and Achilles. These main characters were always my favorite and I feel Mr.Card did a very good job exploring these characters more. You have Bean, the super genius child. You have Achilles the teenage criminal mastermind out for blood and to rule the world by harnesting the top battleschool alumni children. And you have Petra the damsel in distress that's capable of taking care of herself using her mind, skill, and even charm. Put these three characters together with other interesting people, future bamboozled political situations, and lots of guns, brains, and Orson Scott Card and you have a book that is garenteed to keep you on the edge of your seat, never wanting to put it down.
4.0 out of 5 stars
the young genius,
By the norious (West Coast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shadow of the Hegemon (Mass Market Paperback)
This book by Orson Scott Card, is a very good sequel to Enders shadow. It gives more depth about the character known as bean. They tell about his personal life and how he struggled to stay alive. Bean is my favorite character in the Enders game series. He shows the most wits and learns the fastest. He develops emotion, which he has never felt before. Bean, ends up saving the world along with a team of super intelligent kids that think they are playing a game but in reality they are actually commanding star ships in a galaxy where the buggers reside.Not only is Bean a survivor of 25 which 23 were burnt down, he ends up finding his parents and eventually meets his long lost bother. His savior, who is also like his mother, finds Enders brother Peter. Bean helps peter become Hegemon. To me this is the best book of the series, because to me Bean was my favorite Character, because of his intelligence and his past experiances.
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