Deathstalker Destiny Book

The Deathstalker series is sci-fi in the Star Wars mould. It has evil Empires, AI, Cyborgs, and even a bit of magic! It also has a fairly large POV cast which helps give the world a bit of depth.

This fifth Deathstalker book was the last one in the main story cycle. There are three more books but they are set 200 years in the future. This book wrapped up most of the ongoing story arcs and concluded the stories of most of the characters we have followed over the course of the series.

The story in this fifth book was OK. With Hazel D'ark abducted by the Bloodrunners Owen Deathstalker has to find a way to save her! The rest of humanity have a few problems as well as Aliens, the Shub AI, and the Recreated all decide to attack at once. As if that was not bad enough there was the usual internal politicking and bickering in Golgotha as Shub, Blue Block, and even the Matter Mundi all had to be dealt with by what was left of the Campbell, Wolfe, and Shrek families. Jack Random was also on the scene but that was not necessarily a good thing as the guy had started to believe his own myth.

It all made for decent enough reading. We got to learn the truth about the Madness Maze and the Recreated and got most of the other ongoing story arcs concluded in a fairly satisfying manner. My only real complaint is how things worked out personally for Owen but I guess I can see why Green went that way if he has a sequel trilogy planned! I always liked the fact that the cast was pretty large in these books so I enjoyed catching up with and concluding the stories of the likes of Findlay Campbell and Toby Shrek and all the others. Owen was the lead but all those other characters and their problems definitely enhanced and enriched this series.

I do think I'd likely have enjoyed this more had I not run it up against the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown but even with the unfortunate timing I still found this to be a decent enough read.

Rating: 3.5 stars.

Audio Note: Graphic Audio did a great job with the audio for this whole series!