Shadows in Flight (The Shadow Series)

Very disappointing - kind of scam or at least a trick to make a money on something that for sure is far away from what should be called "enhanced edition". Not sure whose decision was it to put it on sale - in either case, huge disappointment with this short story, that for sure isn't what I was looking for.
But, since I like very much the whole series, I really hope that the real, full Shadows in flight book will erase this bad experience memory from my head with some good reading. Now - quite honestly, I don't understand why the store still keeps that so called "enhanced edition", still causing the confusion and money wasted.

Orson Scott card has the ability to not only write amazing stories but also gives each character such a vivid and deep personality you have no choice but to be sucked in. you will not be disappointed by this book.

Unfortunately this was a disappointing end to what has been a great series. Unfortunately it had the air of; "I'll just squeeze out one more book and generate a little more revenue". I've followed the adventures of Ender and Bean avidly since Orson first published Ender's Game and enjoyed the "Shadows" story line, in some ways more true to the Ender's Game milleau than Xenocide and Speaker for the Dead. This however was primarily exposition and ended the series with a whimper than a bang. Sad.

Advances the story of Bean and his genetically challenged children. They find what they were seeking and so much more. Set me up beautifully. I can hardly wait to read the next installment in this part of the saga that began with Ender, the Xenocide.

I loveThe development of the characters and the references to the other end or books. I especially enjoyed the development of the formic hi Queen characteristics. I won't say more as that would be a spoiler.

Shadows In Flight (2011) by Orson Scott Card didn’t knock my socks off like Ender’s Game (1985) did, also by Orson Scott Card. Shadows In Flight is an installment in the Ender Wiggin’s universe. If you’re going to read one book in this universe I would suggest Ender’s Game. It’s the best story I’ve read by Card.

Ender’s Game is one of my top five favorite military science fiction adventure stories. The story is told third person, past tense, from Ender Wiggin’s POV. I haven’t seen the movie so I can’t say whether that’s any good or whether it follows the book.

Starship Troopers (1959) (not like the movie) by Robert A. Heinlein is the book that got me started in sci-fi adventures, and has remained one of my top five favorite military science fiction adventure stories for decades. The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman, Armor (1984) by John Steakley, and Old Man’s War (2005) by John Scalzi, round out my top five military sci-fi adventure stories.

If you like any of the above you might also like Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series, Taylor Anderson’s Destroyermen series, Andre Norton’s Star Soldiers, Andy Weir’s The Martian, or Frank Herbert’s Dune. Other sci-fi and fantasy authors I like include Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Paolo Bacigalupi, Arthur C. Clarke, Earnest Cline, Suzanne Collins, Abe Evergreen, Hugh Howey, George Martin, Larry Niven, Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson.

Card delivers a book only he could write. Like the rest of the Shadow series Bean is tenacious, clever, and determined. The differences and similarities to ender the series remains, which is one reason why these series are comprised of great books.

After faithfully following and enjoying this engrossing series, I bought this new episode without hesitation and with great expectation and anticipation of more of the same. To my dismay, the new illustrated comic format was pointless and detracted from the story. The slim plot and meagre content left me angry and feeling that I had been tricked in buying an inferior offering from a stand-in author. I could never recommend anyone else to make the same mistake I did. Orson Scott Card should do the right thing and withdraw this aberration and rewrite and enhance the story again to redeem his reputation.

I have enjoyed all of Scott Card's earlier books, particularly the Ender and Bean series. However, to dive into this new book to find it finishing after 2 hours of reading was a great disappointment. The purchase price should have been less than 1 dollar. NOTE: "ENHANCED" normally means "MORE" pages... False advertising... No more Scott Card purchases for me...

I was hooked on the shadow series and ender verse up until this book.it seems like a half developed effort to make a deadline. With all the years of developing Bean this just didn't seem like the author had his heart in it and doesn't do a great character justice. Its like your reading along and the author just decides that all the problems are solved, our hero is dead, thank you for buying my book.

To attempt to be constructive here... Use this as a premise essay and write the book for real.

After reading most of the Ender/Shadow series of books and short stories, I was looking forward to reading about what happened to Bean and his three "gifted" children. Unfortunately, this book was a jumbled mess that felt like something just patched together to fulfill a commitment. Maybe I was just spoiled by the high quality of most of the other books, but I was left with a bad taste in my mouth after reading this.

I enjoyed this final book in the Shadow series. It provided some closure to what happens to Bean and his brilliant children after they depart on their near-light speed trek. Kind of hard, though, to see it come to a close.

this book seemed like a filler book, but nonetheless, i really enjoy reading the ender's series. it seemed pretty short, but again, i'm an ender's game fan, so i can't complain. hopefully his next book is longer and develops more of a plot (this book was pretty much introducing Bean's 3 children who are in light speed travel with him).

I ordered the enhanced edition originally and it was absolutely terrible. I would be embarrassed to have it published. It was abridged so heavily that it read like a children's book. Please, if you want to read this, order the regular edition. The full book is actually quite good.

As others have written this is an incomplete work. It is like a rough draft. I find it pathetic that the store lists it as a complete work. The outline indicates that it could potentially be a good story. However the 'enhanced' edition, which appears to be the only edition available for kindle, is not worth it.

The series creates a colorful, smart, and intricate dystopian fantasy world. Card's books are escapism into the far corners of the Universe and even beyond. They are a warning of how unbridled technology in the hands of the powerful few, or the Formic one, sets deadly unintended consequences in motion.

Orson Scott Card has created a completely believable world in the Ender Series of books. Each one stands on its own as a complete book but together they shine brightly as one of the best series ever written.

I feel like this book has gotten many half hearted reviews,after reading through the Enders game quartet and then moving on to the shadow books.I have come to notice the differences between them and although there wasn't the strategy or the suspense of the past shadow books all and all I think it had the ending for bean that was needed just as the ending in children of the mind.

This book is short. Much, much shorter than the other shadow saga books, but I feel that it ties things up nicely for Bean. As usual, Card's writing is eloquent and engaging. I look forward to the next book linking Bean's kids and Ender's "children of the mind".

I enjoyed the book. Disappointed with some direction the story is taking but it's Card's story to tell. Most fans will enjoy. Disappointed with the Kindle purchase. Somehow it went straight from sample to bought so be careful if you nare previewing sample on your Kindle.