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| D | |||
| Jack McKinney | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| Robotech: The Sentinels | Genesis, Battle Cry, Homecoming, Battlehymn, Force of Arms, Doomsday, Southern Cross, Metal Fire, The Final Nightmare, Invid Invasion, Metamorphosis, Symphony of Light, The Devil's Hand, Dark Powers, Death Dance, World Killers, Rubicon, The End of the Circle | ||
The tide has turned at last in favor of the REF and the Sentinels. Tesla and Edwards are both on the run, heading for Optera in hopes of building empires. The REF has sent Breetai and the other Zentraedi after Edwards, but the Sentinels have opted to free the last planet, Peryton, from the Inved and its own homegrown curse. Only then will they move on to Optera for a final, winner-take-all showdown with the Regent. But it won't be the Regent they face there...
There isn't much to be said about this novel that wasn;t said about previous ones, especially the last. Events still happen, people still do things because the story needs it rather than for any logical reason. On the good side, there's less of that for small things - there's not so many, oh, thousand foot statues made out of wet clat that remain structurally stable, for instance. But that's not such a big help, because that means when it does happen then it's not some irrelevant annoyance that makes little logical sense, but a major plot point. Particularly egregious is Tesla's fate, but there are quite a few others.
The denoument takes up the last dozen pages or so, and it quite nicely sums up the aftermath of the Tirolean Campaign as well as tying together all the miniseries within the Robotech genre. But there is one overwhelming problem, in that it manages to actually open more plot threads. It raises more questions, big ones, and this is the last book! It concludes things reasonably well, and then on literally the last page it starts a new story!
This book almost, alomst got a better grade than it did. The lack of small errors and inconsistencies made this, on the whole, a much easier read than the last few. But the inclusion of those large errors and inconsistencies, together with the poor ending, brought the quality right back down. If you made it through the rest of the series, you might as well read this one and get what closure you can. But by book's end you'll find some very important questions, some of them that have existed through most of the Robotech series, to remain unsanswered.
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