Wow, just wow.

Everything gets tied up in this book. All the unanswered questions are answered. Plenty of action. Things we thought we knew were wrong. We find out the secrets behind everything, including the fates of the Madness Maze people.

It was hard to put this book down; so much so that I ended up reading most of it in one sitting, staying up far later than I should have.

It could have been a 5 star book easily. Unfortunately Green messed up his timeline. At one point a character dies, only to be right back alive a few pages later, with no explanation of how he died. Which is a major flaw of the authors; as I've seen similar such errors throughout all of his series. ( )

This novel wraps up the 5-book Deathstalker series. Although there are three more novels to follow, this book was an end to the main story arc that pervaded the 5 novels.

I found this one a bit less satisfying, if for no other reason than the reuse of cliche writing (the ubiquitously repeated "the whole being more than the sum of its parts" and "dust and less than dust" etc etc. I was also annoyed by several misspellings which really should have been caught by a proofreader had one been involved in the process. One memorable case was "Hm" that should have been "him."

All my gripes aside, and they are many, if you've read the first four books you really need to finish by reading this book. Whether you decide to go on is up to you.

Deathstalker Destiny was written in sections, each telling part of the wrap-up story of Owen, Hazel, Ruby, and Jack. Full of tragic and sometimes heroic death, humanity is on the brink of destruction from its many enemies, the AI's of Shub, the Hadenmen, and the Recreated. in this book we learn the origins of the Recreated, witness the return of the Madness Maze. Some parts were slow, and I constantly wished to be on a different part of the story, but all arcs were sufficiently wrapped up to end the story.

I can't say it was an excellent book, but it was a good ending to the storyline. I just can't give it a high rating because of all the annoying problems that any novice proofreader should have caught. ( )

The conclusion to Owen Deathstalker's saga does an amazing job of tying up the many loose ends and unexplained events throughout the series. Of course, almost everyone comes to a tragic end and there's truly horrific gore and mayhem, but the ending is nonetheless satisfying. Makes me want to read the book again, now that I know the real beginnings and endings, just to see if Green missed anything. ( )