Shadow Puppets
- 253
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Shadow Puppets” is a political and military chess game with a love story at its centre. Those who liked the manoeuvring of the previous volume find it again here, and some praise the romance. Others think the series is losing steam, with suspense arriving only around the midpoint and a final confrontation that is easy to foresee, and some miss the science fiction. It is the third book and depends on the two before it.
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About the book
Shadow Puppets is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, published in 2002. It is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Ender's Shadow series. It was originally to be called Shadow of Death.
Reading order · Shadow hexalogy
Full order & progress →- Ender's ShadowStart here
8.48.4 / 10 - Shadow of the Hegemon
7.77.7 / 10 - Shadow PuppetsThis book
7.57.5 / 10 - Shadow of the Giant
7.87.8 / 10 - Shadows in Flight
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 331 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 69% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 331 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Shadow Puppets?
It has 253 pages — shorter than 87% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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