Reawakening

The Side Step Trilogy, Book 2

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ender’s Game comes Reawakening, the thrilling sequel to Wakers, following Laz as he uses his abilities to travel to parallel worlds and fight to save them.

Laz has already saved humanity before.

As a side-stepper, Laz was born with the power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. He used this power to find a new home for humanity after learning his own Earth was destined to be destroyed. And he hoped his help would never be needed again.

But now he’s being called on once more to use his powers to change the course of history. This time, it’s not just the fate of the world at stake—but many worlds.

And only Laz has the ability to stop the coming interdimensional war from consuming them all.

©2025 Orson Scott Card (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

Another perfect story

As usual, Card has produced another perfect story novel that contains every event a reader want and had it narrated with splendor. He is my favorite author and a great humanistic teacher with all his works.

Classic Card he dose the best inner dialog that captivates

The books could be a little longer .? I was expecting a little bit more of a storyline in between the books

Not up to his standard. Disappointed.

Far too much whiny, sarcastic, choppy dialog. Ruined what could have been a good story.

Good story - tiresome characters

I really like the story plot. However, there is SO MUCH childish sarcastic dialog that I almost turned it off multiple times. And it's not just one character... It's ALL OF THEM.

thought experiment?

got a bit tedious... clearly the author thinking about concepts and using the novel to work through these ideas