Destiny's Way

Doomed Earth, Book 2

De: Jack Campbell

Narrado por: Tim Fannon, Andrea Emmes

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.

©2024 Jack Campbell (P)2024 Recorded Books

A book for very young adults

Dialogue and performance seemed geared for adolescents and young adults. Story was good but too much dialogue.

One-dimensional villains

The villains/bad guys of the series are really one-dimensional. Motivated only by their fear of 'other'. With other characters, including the main ones, sounding a lot like broken records, regularly repeating themselves in ways that grow annoying and being highly resistant in accepting they might be wrong about some things.

Annoying traits like these plague other Jack Campbell books like the Pillars of Reality and make enjoying them much harder.

Very little character growth

Selene especially constantly repeats "but I'm an Alloy" as if literally anyone would understand that. She can understand time travel but can't understand that Alloys don't exist yet because she travelled in time. Sure once or twice, but it continues. Also, like half of all issues could be solved if Selene just spent 5 seconds explaining something instead of just staying quiet for literally no reason besides character flaws.

Jack Campbell's books usually have very competent main characters - it's frustrating having one that's only competent in fighting people and basically nothing else.

Interesting plot

Lack of character development and didn't flow together at times. Corny language, trying to hard to be indepth.

Excellent Read

A very good followup to an excellent Book one. A little too much time spent on the "relationship", but everytime they returned to the save the world mission it again became a very engaging, enthralling read. I enjoyed the book very much!

More personal action, different than the space opera of the Lost Fleet

I really like the narrators of these 2 books as well as the Lost Fleet series. The stories of both are very enjoyable. I hope both series are continued

Series would have worked better as a single book

This second book seems to mark the end of the story and that's totally fine. However, when combined with the rather abrupt way the first book finished, it makes me thing this was originally a single book that was split in two. I don't know if the split was for publishing reasons or wordcount or whatever, but this would have been much more effective as a single book, as each were a little short anyways.

When it comes to the story itself, I liked it. A little over-simplistic or under-developed perhaps, maybe aimed at a younger audience, but it was good overall. The narrators were fine, and I think they did a bit better job of matching cadence, so the switching of voices wasn't as jarring this time.
Overall a solid book with a nice, uplifting story.

It was fun.

Action, adventure, drama, romance, and some thought provoking scientific thought about time about the time travel paradox.

very good duology

Interesting time travel story. It is a good, tight, story with a relatively small number of places where belief needs to be suspended. It has quite a few places where interesting questions are raised. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I was fortunate that I could buy the second book immediately, so I was able to continue, and complete, the story in the shortest amount of time possible.

a good read

There are many people that write military sci-fi. You have the wanna bet who's central character jumps tall buildings and karate chops his (yes mostly men) opponents into a hospital with ease, and then you have a few like Campbell or Mammay who have served in the military and write believable good characters in good plausible stories. In Campbell's universe good guys are truly good and decent. I know such people are rare in real life, but it is pleasing non the less to read about them..