Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card

And so I've come to the last existing book in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. Shadow of the Giant is much better than the previous Shadow Puppets, and when it was finished I cried for five minutes... I've come to love these characters and the ending was just very difficult to bear. Like previous two books, this one was very political - but finally the characters get the center stage and political situation provides the backdrop.

Giant is actually a really new book, only written last year, and at times you could definitely see the influence of the current situation reflected in the story - initially I was afraid Uncle Orson's unfortunate real life opinions would play too big of a part, but he resisted the temptation and went for something more original. He's got a bit stereotypical ideas of different cultures, almost to the point of them being "noble savages", but he's saved by the fact that people are the same everywhere and the key characters are still believable. What can I say - I loved the book mainly because of the emotional load, the way characters interacted. Card has said that he wants to write one more final book in the series, tying up the Ender and the Shadow sagas but I hope he doesn't wait too long before doing it - I'm dying to see how he ties up the final ends that were left hanging.

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