Continuity mistake: In Ch. 33, the rookie Ron Pulaski thinks about his wife and two kids - his toddler, Brad, who is described as old enough to crawl, and "their newborn daughter". But in Ch. 18 of the previous book, The Twelfth Card,it says Pulaski has one daughter and his wife is pregnant with another child. So the mistake is that the older child ought to be a girl, not a boy.
Plot hole: The arms dealer tells Special Branch detectives that Charles Calthrop - wrongly suspected to be The Jackal - barely escaped with his life when Rafael Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, was assassinated in 1961. "The whole regime collapsed within hours." He tells them, relating how Calthrop was with the Police Minister at the time and had to flee, bribing a fisherman to take him off the island in order to escape the angry mobs of partisans who were rioting in the streets, indiscriminately killing anyone they thought had collaborated with Trujillo's regime. What cobblers. There were no partisans and no riots. Trujillo's regime continued uninterrupted. His brother Hector immediately took power and ruled absolutely and ruthlessly for another eight years. Calthrop would have nothing to worry about unless Trujillo himself had signed his pay cheque. Calthrop's alleged involvement in the assassination is a hugely important plot point as it inadvertently leads to the discovery of the false passport obtained by the Jackal and the uncovering of his false identity, and his name was only placed on file because of his rumoured involvement in events which simply did not take place.
Factual error: When the Australian astronaut is describing the Battle of Dehli, he says "Just like the limeys used to do in the colonial days." Limeys is just an American term. In Australia, Englishmen are referred to as pommies.
Other mistake: E-mails between Salander and Blomvkist on pages 311 and 312 (2009 MacLehose Press hardback) are repeated word for word on pages 370, 371.
Continuity mistake: In the first chapter, when the Thunderclan hunting patrol meet the Shadowclan border patrol; the Shadowclan cats taunt the Thunderclan cats and Birchfall jumps on Snaketail. Snaketail's apprentice Scorchpaw then jumps on top and Hazeltail joins in to help Birchfall. It says: 'Hazeltail launched *himself*' but it says in the Allegiances section that Hazeltail is a she-cat.
Continuity mistake: In Chapter 2, Hester Latterly tells Mary Farraline about her brother James who was killed in the Crimea. But in previous books (for example, The Face of a Stranger), her brother who was killed in the Crimea was called George.
Factual error: During the murder trial in part three, when a prosecution witness of Yuki's is called back to testify for the defense, he is sworn in. But having already testified, he wouldn't have to be sworn in a second time; the presiding judge could simply remind him that he is still under oath.
Factual error: On page 296, Clapton mentions rehearsals for the Cream reunion began in May 2005 and lasted almost a month. But the reunion itself was held the first week of May, so it should say rehearsals began in April.
Factual error: On page 512, line 10, there is a mistake in the "voice over" when dealing with the killing of Desi, "the feel of his own blood spurting between his fingers with each pulse." The jugular vein was cut, and veins don't spurt with each pulse; they ooze. Arteries do the spurting with each pulse.
Continuity mistake: In chapter 16, Shardlake takes the alchemy books out of his satchel along with the bottle and places them on the table. A few paragraphs later, he once again takes them out of his satchel and lays them on the table.
Other mistake: On page 30, the book says, "Have you ever wanted to see Iris' Dragonite beside the spunky Pikachu?" despite Dragonite not appearing. This likely because this part of the caption on this page was copied directly from the previous book.
Continuity mistake: When Aravis and the Horses are at the Hermit's and Shasta is at Anvard, the three decide it is time to resume their journey to Narnia. Aravis says, "We must see Shasta first and say good-bye to him - and - and apologize." At this point they do know he is the king of Archenland's son and will be staying in Anvard. That is revealed later to them in the chapter. She should have said, "We need to go to Anvard and get Shasta and then go to Narnia."
Plot hole: It took Ender only a few hours to unravel a mystery that 3 generations of highly educated and skilled xenologists and xenobiologists were unable to do. Pipo, of the first generation, was restricted by the rules imposed on him by the congress and he found out the truth but died because of it. After that Libo should have simply asked the piggies what happened and should have digged into the piggies' reproduction system, like he should have done in the first place as that is his job. Both Libo and Miro and Ouanda broke the rules so they shouldn't have had a problem with asking the right questions. They weren't afraid of the piggies either, loved them even. Libo would have had the answer to the reason for the death of his father and understood the piggies in a week, even though Novinha had hid the original data. If not him Miro and Ouanda would have had plenty of time to figure it out as well, just by asking questions. They would have learned a lot more about the descolada virus decades sooner as well, giving them more chance to combat it successfully.
Suggested correction: This entry first claims that it took three generations to find the solution, then states that individual in the first generation found it. If one xenologist can arrive at the solution from scratch, a literal genius like Ender can certainly rapidly come to the same conclusion using the data the next two generations compiled in the meantime.
They were all geniuses. The other 2 generations should have found out just a quickly or even quicker if they would have just simply done their jobs. It doesn't make sense.
But in Xenocide Miro's siblings like Ela, Olhado, Quarra and Grego are in the same league as Ender in intelligence, solving impossible questions without either Ender or Valentine even grasping it well enough to understand. Surely Miro isn't the only one lacking. They got that genius from their parents, the second generation xenologists Libo and Novinha who are both geniuses as well. At least the third generation should have figured it out long before Ender showed up. Mostly my point is they haven't actually done their job in all this time instead of them not being as smart as Ender to figure it out. Just ask the right questions like Ender did and voila. Its their job to ask questions but they didn't do it and their attitude towards the piggies is all wrong.
Continuity mistake: David and Steve are playing racquetball. There is nothing on the brown wooden floor, and neither have a towel. David becomes woozy, so Steve checks on him. There is a white towel on the floor, behind their feet, which disappears when they resume their game. (00:01:42 - 00:02:20)
Plot hole: In the 8th Wizard Of Oz book titled Tik-Tok Of Oz, the group runs into Polychrome, the rainbow's daughter. Polychrome and Shaggy Man first met up in book #5 titled The Road To Oz. However in this book, Shaggy Man and Polychrome act as if it is the 1st time they ever met each other. They make no mention of them meeting before in the prior book.
Other mistake: In the picture of Twig's woodtroll village (Corgi edition page 291), it shows the village with a large tree cabin in the middle. At the bottom of this tree, you can see Twig and Cowlquape standing with a small figure that is probably an oakelf. We can assume this oakelf is Spooler because the only other oakelf is Taghair, who is in his caternest. If the figure is Spooler then this is a definite mistake because Spooler died in the last chapter. Twig and Cowlquape should be standing with Goom the banderbear.
Continuity mistake: In previous books (such as The Face of a Stranger), Hester Latterly's sister-in-law is called Imogen. In Chapter 7 of this book, however, her name is given as Josephine.
Continuity mistake: In the first book, A Wicked Slice, Graham Sheldon was either 30 (beginning of Ch.2) or 31 (end of Ch.7). Now, in this fourth book, it is two years later, and Graham is "now at the age of twenty-nine" (middle of Ch. 1). He is getting younger.
Factual error: In chapter 8, Barbara is thinking about bullfighting, and how she had seen the horses being disembowelled by the bulls. But Barbara didn't arrive in Spain until 1936, and since 1928 horses used in bullfighting have been legally required to wear protective padding that prevents them from being injured by the horns (so the horses can be reused in other corridas).