The Last Shadow

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Justine Eyre, Kirby Heyborne, Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki

Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania.

One planet.

Three sapient species living peacefully together.

And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions.

Is the only answer another great Xenocide?

This program is read by Emily Rankin, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Justine Eyre, Kirby Heyborne, Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick, and Stefan Rudnicki.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

16 years too late and just rubbish!

This was my last book from Orson. I guess sometimes it's time for an author to retire before it gets this bad. Otherwise a fantastic performance from the narrated team!

Not Card's best, but ...

The story isn't among Card's most genius works, but it's still worth your time - and a must-read if you're a fan of the enderverse.

The adio production is sadly among the worst I've heard from Audible. The main bulk of the book is luckily read very professionally, but parts are very badly performed, the sound quality is variable and there are even shockingly abrupt inserts of phrases that were apparently omitted in the original file.

Y'all ridiculous

The book was good. Different from the other Ender and Shadow books but still decent. The author did run a bit wild with this one but nothing crazy or illogical. I never liked the idea of instantaneous travel, seemed like magic but that's about it. I read so many bad reviews about the book I thought it was going to be a dumpster fire. I went in biased against the book but ended up becoming engrossed and a bit disappointed it ended. This one did feel a bit rushed compared to the others but it was still enjoyable.

great capstone book

I have been a fan of the enderverse for many years. I like how this book was written as if pulling quotes or passages form previous books. I have missed several books in between but can recall many parts of previous books that I have read when subjects are reintroduced. in this one.

Not his usual standard

I was pretty disappointed in this one. The story was rushed, and was not very cohesive. It wasn't bad by any means, but a lot of the content didn't make much sense in the greater Enderverse. I didn't care for a lot of the plot points, and there didn't seem to be a greater resolution to the story

One of the things that I enjoyed most about Mr. Card's work before it was the philosophy that was interjected into the story. It always flirted with the line between pretentious and meaningful, but as the story unfolds it becomes more and more meaningful. There was a lot of philosophy involved in this story, but was nowhere as deep as in other Enderverse stories.

Worth a read. I will probably only read it once however.