A review by kwugirl
Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card
3.0
OSC is deft as ever with moving around in different character viewpoints to show how they see the world in the way that makes sense to them. The main part of the story was pretty suspenseful and interesting in how it changes the dynamic of the later series.
Knocked off a star because the opening couple of chapters felt kind of tacked on and I feel like he did to Bean what they sometimes do to Brennan on the show Bones, which is they dial up her social awkwardness whenever it's convenient for the rest of the plot. Bean may be a single parent of brilliant and tiny children, but I'm skeptical he would have regressed in terms of understanding other people's emotional state as much as would be required to set up those first couple chapters.
Knocked off a star because the opening couple of chapters felt kind of tacked on and I feel like he did to Bean what they sometimes do to Brennan on the show Bones, which is they dial up her social awkwardness whenever it's convenient for the rest of the plot. Bean may be a single parent of brilliant and tiny children, but I'm skeptical he would have regressed in terms of understanding other people's emotional state as much as would be required to set up those first couple chapters.