Ender's Shadow

Ender's Game

De: Orson Card

Narrado por: Michael Gross

From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend—the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Bean's whole story is told.

©1999 Orson Card (P)2022 Phoenix Books

GO for the unabridged version

Great story, good writing, I've read it in print, but poor audio recording and too much left out in the abridgment process, this version was disappointing. Get the unabridged version!

Harsh on the ears

While I love Orson Scott Card's books, this production, which was recorded in the highest compression--lowest quality audio, is painful to listen to even if the story fills in many gaps that the other Ender series don't. The sound is tinny at best--like listening to it through a cheap phone. Nonetheless, this will set you up for Shadow of the Hedgemon, which was a terrific book that I listened to out of order because I didn't know that this Shadow book existed.

Until they come out with a version that is unabridged and recorded in higher fidelity, or you want to read the book, this may be the best you can get. I've not completed my listening, but wanted to warn others about the audio quality and not the story itself.

Great story/ horrible recording

Recorded with 2 empty tin cans and a piece is string. I feel like I was listening to a story from the other side of a thick door.

don't download this version

amazing writer fantastic voice actors terrible sound quality. popping peas in the mic loud tease hard case General static noise in the background honestly just all-around low-quality sound. get a different version

I Don't Agree

I don't agree with some of the reviews saying this was a terrible audio book. If you don't intend to read the books, and just listen to them, as I do, there is nothing wrong with this book. I enjoyed just as thoroughly as I did Ender's Game. Of course I'd love the unabridged version of any book, but this was a great story--it was very fun learning about Bean's story and a good prelude to the next book. I also had no problems hearing the recording.

Too much is cut out

As a fan of the shadow series, I was looking for a new way to enjoy a classic story. However, this version cuts so much important information out of the story but does nothing to piece the remaining parts together coherently. important events that took up pages of text are whittled down to barely a sentence. important plot points are glassed over and some changes make no sense. They don't improve a first time reading and infuriate someone familiar with the book.

Flows poorly

If you have listened to the other Ender books then you might find this one a little disappointing. The story is fine and the narration is good, but you can tell that this book is abridged.

While the style is like Card's other Ender books, this one seems rushed and does not flow like the others.

Great listen - if you can hear it

Audible needs to upgrade this recording so "Ender" fans can hear Bean's story of Battle School. Format 2 is nearly unlistenable.

Good story, Bad Sound

Sound quality is grating, but endurable. It is a great book, and makes you see Bean in a very different light.

excellent complement to Ender's Game

Great storytelling - and character development. Read/listen to Ender's Game first.