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Firebird, Book 5

By: Kathy Tyers

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Times have changed for the telepathic Sentinels in the realm of the Federate Whorl.

Persecution sends these genetically altered people fleeing to their sanctuary world, but a shipboard disaster exposes High Commander Brennen Caldwell to fatal radiation.

Elsewhere, wrongfully imprisoned Sentinel Jorah Caldwell receives a supernatural visitor, who hails Jorah as Boh-Dabar, the prophesied Word to Come. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger arrives at the sanctuary world, also claiming to be Boh-Dabar.

Soon, a tangle of interstellar incidents threatens the Sentinel kindred’s very existence. And no one - anywhere - has anticipated the events that will shake the interstellar Federacy.

©2012 Kathy Tyers (P)2021 Oasis Audio

Best of the series

I'm a huge fan of the Firebird series, and this novel feels like the perfect conclusion to the series. Both Firebird and Brennan feel like they easily fit the role of a multi-generational patriarch and matriarch. I really enjoy the second and third generation characters, and my biggest complaint about this novel having such a definitive end that it is impossible for there to be continued adventures and stories with the third generation characters especially.

I haven't been the biggest fan of the narrator in the previous novels because the narrator made Firebird sound less confident than I had imagined her during my previous reads of the series. However, that voice and overall tone fits this book very well, especially one specific character.