Echoes of Destiny

The Earthburst Saga, Book 7

By: Craig A. Falconer

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

I made it home. But something came with me.

From hero to outcast. From savior to biohazard.

As hollow victories go, this one is hard to beat. When Driver and I saved Earth from the Anomaly's suffocating radiation, we thought it was all over. Our triumphant return from the occupied alien world of Bayzen was supposed to draw a line under everything.

The problem is, we didn't come home alone. No one has ever seen anything like this. What they're calling it sends shivers down my spine: a parasitic alien pathogen. It could be a virus, a toxin, or maybe something even worse.

And believe me: what we don't know definitely can hurt us. It's too late for me—I've been exposed. But this has never been about me. It's going to take some incredible risks and another long-shot space mission to get to the bottom of this, but I'll fight until my last breath to undo the damage I've done.

As a horrible question echoes in my mind, I'll do anything to make sure the answer is the right one: Am I Earth's last hope...or the man who sealed its fate?

©2023 Craig A. Falconer (P)2023 Recorded Books

Money grab but good story

I loved this book and series! However, it’s a money grab. 7 hr books are just a grab for money. This could have been a four book series. I will not do another title from the author because of this. Be aware. It will cost you to listen to this series.

A bit more rehashing than I enjoy

There was a lot more discussion of current circumstances and what might or might not happen than in previous books. It became repetitive

Smooth Transition

This book makes for a smooth transition into the next venture of the series. If you have already been reading the series....don't stop

This story is getting worse and worse. Series should have ended LONG ago.

This book series has gotten so unbelievable, with so many juvenile plot holes and absurd twists that would be more appropriate for a Space Balls type parody than a legitimate Sci-fi saga, that I simply cannot bring myself to believe all these positive reviews are legitimate, instead of just bots artificially fluffing a series the publisher wants to sell.

I bought the entire series for less than the cost of a single credit during an audible sale, otherwise I'd just throw in the towel and give up on this atrocious story, but with only two books left in this series, I'm morbidly curious about how this story ends.

"Bazon water" may or may not be toxic to humans, so they don't risk drinking it to purge themselves of the infection, but it miraculously kills the parasitic "ooze" on contact.

they don't know what is causing "bazon water" to do this because they can't isolate any substance or quality that makes it different from normal water, but they DO have environmental and medical sensors advanced enough to create IR and atmospheric sensors on a nano scale small enough to fit into contact lenses to detect the "ooze" just by looking at it. They have medical booth sensors advanced enough to get a complete medical and biological scan of a novel alien species in less than 30 minutes, but can't isolate what makes this magic water kill the "ooze."

This is the standard MO for this series. Every solution is a magic bullet. Every PROBLEM is a magic bullet.

As I mentioned in my last review of this series, this isn't sci-fi. It's fantasy loosely set in a sci-fi genre environment of near-future human advancement.

This series should have ended before the "Anomoly" spin-off.

At this point the entire premise of the whole series from the "Anomoly" narrative seems to exist solely because some publisher convinced a writer with no emotional or intellectual attachment to continuing an already mediocre story that more books were needed, for reasons I don't even want to pretend are rational.

This latest book was phoned in. The suspense is unbelievable. The problems are magically overcome. The tiny sample of "bazon water" they were described as having collected doesn't match the absolutely enormous amount used to fight the "ooze" and the "engineered metallic insects" that magically appear from the ooze.

I will be intentionally avoiding this author after finishing this series. His predilection for hyperbolic suspenseful language bereft of believable circumstances is more appropriate for the Princess Bride or Space Balls than a series trying to be legitimate or series sci-fi.

Scott aelio

great idea for a book Series,but too long winded you get one Sentence towards the story, And thirty minutes of introspection.