Shadow Puppets

Book Review

I have read a book by Orson Scott Card called Shadow Puppets. It is the seventh installment on the Enders series. And the last one made so far. It is a sequel to EnderÐŽ¦s Shadow and Shadow of the Hegamon. The main character of this story is a kid named bean. His real name is Julian Dephiki. They call him bean because when he was a little bummy kid on the streets of Rotterdam all he had to live off of to save his life was a bean to eat.

Bean was a genetically enhanced with AntonÐŽ¦s key, which makes him extremely smart but he never stops growing ever. He will grow until his heart cant pump blood throughout the entire body. He was the smartest kid in battle school and played a much bigger part in saving the world from the buggers than they showed in EnderÐŽ¦s Game. Well this takes place after battle school is all over. Ender went to the first humanized colony on another world. They countries were back at war even though peter made peace for a while. China is growing more and more powerful. They are taking over the world with the help of the deceiving Achilles Flandres. Peter Wiggin is the hegamon but has no real power. Bean is the head of PeterÐŽ¦s very small military force. They get a mission to rescue Achilles from the Chinese caravan. The Chinese had a plan to make the hegamon think that Achilles was on their side.

Bean and Achilles are sworn enemies since they were little and bean had told Poke to kill him. Achilles is a multiple homicide megalomaniac. He is very smart, but not nearly as smart as bean. Seeing how Achilles wants to kill bean, bean and Petra go into hiding all over the world. Petra was also in battle school and was beans only friend. Though they werenÐŽ¦t that much of friends. Petra now wants to have beans kids and nags at him about halfway through the book until she convinces him. Bean loves her but does not want to spread AntonÐŽ¦s key to anyone. He considers