Shadow Of The Hegemon is the second book in the Shadow series, which kinda-sorta parallels the Ender's Game series. It's focused on Earth, and the Battle School grads that don't board colony ships and fly off into the relativistic sunset. Achilles is emerging as a dangerous foe, whilst Petra and many other grads are seized as tools of war, with countries putting armies in their hands. With the Buggers gone, nations are itchy for something else to point guns at, and everyone thinks that their Battle School grads will give them the edge.I picked this series back up because I was curious to see what happened with the story. Ender's story doesn't really have too much detail on what happens 'back home', so to speak, and I was interested to see how Bean was going to deal with his emerging differences, as well as how Peter was going to develop as a character. He's somewhat demonised in the Ender books as the hideous big brother, but it's interesting to see that he's given weaknesses, and generally humanised as this series develops. It's quite a radical change in some ways, and aspects of it become sort of unbelievable unless you accept that previous information is incorrect, or skewed.
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