The Destiny Mask

The Structure Series #2

by Martin Sketchley

After the death of Vourniass Lycern, child-bearer to the Seriattic Royal Household, her twin sons, fathered by former Military Intelligence Officer Alexander Delgado, have grown up ignorant of their relationship. Michael has been raised on Earth as the son of General William Myson, while Cascari has been brought up within Delgado's terrorist group. Furthermore, due to the circumstances surrounding their birth, no-one knows Michael and Cascari are brothers, and both believe they are the rightful heir to the position of Monosiell - head of Seriatt's Royal Household. When the existing Monosiell dies suddenly, the long-awaited opportunity presents with Cascari in power Delgado knows he could strike at Myson more effectively, while Myson seeks the strategic value of Seriatt's proximity to the M4 wormhole. The stakes are heightened as the Seriatts are developing time travel capacity, using technology extrapolated from The Destiny Mask - the artefact Seriattic oracles use to predict the future. Delgado knows that with time travel capability Myson would represent an immeasurable threat, one which he must prevent. While strange occurrences in the vicinity of the wormhole go unnoticed, on Seriatt the Oracles predict the coming of a saviour; but who this will be, no one can tell.

Genres: Science Fiction

369 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2005

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh dear... what to say? All very... 'breathless'... somehow - rather as if one's reading a (not terribly good) script for a film rather than a novel. So far (page 253) the characters are universally two-dimensional and the dialogue even more so: All the leading character can say after walking-in on his son being sadistically bu@@ered is "You all right son?"... I genuinely feel sorry for the reader further down the comments list who took this with him as holiday reading!

[Sara]

When royal twin live seprated to another and feal rightful that he will be the hier of the seriat plant.what come to be.many moment cant talk when when the flam of hate and war come to life esp hard when they relited.sf novel.hard to tell gd but ok.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bad, worse when on an island off fiji and this was one of my 2 books for 5 days. Not good at all