[AlisdairSH]

Read Ender's Shadow as well. And probably the other main-line Ender stories. None are a difficult read - you'll breeze through them in a weekend.

[flatline]

I personally did not like Shadow, and stopped about 3/4 of the way through. The original two books were great. Xenocide and Children were...readable. The standard of writing went way down in Shadow, and while the concept was interesting, I didn't feel that it added anything to the story. It read like Card was just filling in the blanks in a plot outline he had lying around.