Review: A Fantastic and Satisfying End to the Trilogy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
The previous book, Once Humans, appeared to portray civilization advancing in significant fashion. That evolution is further explored in the trilogy’s finale, and the author continues to excel at crafting his story’s world and its inhabitants. Many readers might have thought that humans were a dead species, but Eridu is shaken to its core by the revelation that they still have a great deal of fight left in them.The Moirai’s effect on human evolution appears to be coming full circle, and protagonist Dan is literally losing Hope. (Those who have read the previous installments will understand the significance of this statement.) An interesting theme is presented as the Moirai continue to replace the former human race with those known as the Selected. Destruction often breeds creation, even when cruelly performed.Despite the superb complexity of the world the author has constructed, the writing is easy enough to follow. Dan is most certainly not the same person he was at the beginning of Daimones, and readers will be amazed at the depth of character development that has been achieved while still appearing plausible given everything he has been through.Dan is one of many facets of the story which seems to come to fruition in this novel.  It very much appears that author Massimo Marino has had this series very well planned out from the get-go. Like the Moirai, he carries out his plans with this final installment and the results are incredible. Fans of science fiction will not be sorry for having read this book, which engages the reader in the story of one civilization’s end in the wake of new beginnings. It is a fitting end to a spectacular trilogy.