Destiny's Way
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Lieutenant Selene Genji is hurled into the past to try and save a world that doesn’t want her in this action-packed adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell.
Earth was destroyed on June 12, 2180. Lieutenant Selene Genji watched it happen. And only she can prevent it.
Thrown forty years into the past, into a time before the Universal War began, Genji can only guess what to do to change the events that led to the death of all humanity. She has no way of knowing the long-term impacts of her actions and can only depend on her instincts.
But many of the people Genji’s trying to save want her dead. Her creation was an experiment: a fusing of human and alien DNA. To them, she’s a monster who can’t be trusted, a tool of the aliens who have just made first contact.
Fortunately, she has an unshakable ally in Lieutenant Kayl Owen, who has risked everything to help her mission. Declared a traitor to humanity by Earth Guard, Owen is determined to help Genji save the Earth.
Even if he dies trying.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the rambling conclusion to the Doomed Earth duology (after In Our Stars), Campbell mixes military science fiction adventure with social commentary and a dash of romance as his characters explore issues of ethics and humanity, and what it means to be defined as a person. Following the destruction of the Earth in 2180, Lt. Selene Genji of the Unified Fleet is thrown back in time to 2140, long before her birth and the terrible events of the Universal War. After befriending and then falling in love with Lt. Kayl Owen of the Earth Guard, Selene and her new partner go on the run, pursued by those in power who fear her genetically engineered, part-alien nature and assume she's a spy or worse. Now Selene and Kayl must survive long enough to convince the world of her good intentions while somehow influencing the present to prevent a future apocalypse. But with First Contact with the alien Tramontine already underway, Earth's slide into xenophobia and chaos may be inevitable. It's an exciting setup, and the stakes should feel high as Selene struggles to save the planet by changing the way part-aliens like herself are perceived, but the plot meanders as she and Kayl repetitively slip into and out of danger with little real consequence. This underperforms.
