The Last Shadow
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Our view
“The Last Shadow” is an ambitious reunion of Card’s two Ender lines, picking up threads left loose since “Shadow of the Giant”. Its events follow “Children of the Mind”, so it assumes a reader who knows both the Ender and the Shadow books well. Some readers praise how fresh the new conflict feels and find the ending surprising in a satisfying way. Dark and tense, it is no place to start the saga.
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About the book
The Last Shadow is a 2021 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of his Ender's Game series. It links the Shadow Saga back to the original Ender series. This book brings the two series back together, and wraps up some of the plot threads left dangling in Shadow of the Giant. The events in the book follow those in Children of the Mind, the final book in the Ender series.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 58 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 58 | 100% |
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