After reviewing the first two short books in Frank Kennedy’s rattling five-book series, Farewell Amity Station, I decided to group the remaining three in one final review. In Requiem Day, Trevor Stallion, now head of security on the Amity Station planetary ship, battles to uphold peace as a crucial moment approaches in the history of the 40-world Collectorate, enmeshed also in widening circles of betrayal around him. Conner, his younger brother, meanwhile, joins a shadowy military corps and becomes a superb warrior. In Code Exodus and the final Fallen Stars, the shadowy villain begins to show his hand, Trevor learns to live with an ancient being inside his mind, and Amity Station becomes the center of a battle for the fate of the Collectorate. As ever, the author punches the pace along while maintaining a prodigiously complex space world, with a large cast of compelling characters. The entire series is a feat of space opera world building and execution, and a breakneck, intelligent read.
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