Review: Semi-Terrestrial Extinction Reset

Semi-Terrestrial Extinction Reset is the fifth book in Philip S. Wood’s SCIFY series Semi-
Terrestrial. The book starts with people disappearing all over Russia and other countries around

the world. During this time Donald and the family leave to map all the stars in the universe.
When they return a year later, they discover that the world was taken over by radioactive ants.
Donald and the family learn that these ants were radiated from the Chernobyl disaster. They
were able to travel back in time and kill the ants before they were radiated but they still let the
Chernobyl event take place to not alter history any further.

After that, they continue to go after keyboard warriors, sex traffickers, Chinese
sweatshop owners, and pedophiles. Donald has become the jury, trial, and executioner for all
of these people. They also make time to hang out with Rufus and his family.

Unfortunately, Dolton is no longer president of the United States. The new president is
Daniel Foster, and he isn’t too fond of Donald. Ten countries, including the United States,
attempt to attack Donald’s home, but he teleports them to a movie theater to watch a slide
show about all of Donald’s accomplishments. He says they should leave Donald alone and let
him save the world.

The Extinction Reset only took up about 30% of the book when it could’ve been the
whole novel. Avengers Endgame stretched the whole-time travel plot to a three-hour movie.
There is also an uncomfortable moment where Nate goes after one particular keyboard warrior
and nearly beats him to death for threatening him after they fried his computer. It’s not very
hero-like and completely out of character for him. I also wish there was more build-up to the
other countries coming together and agreeing to team up against Donald and his family. That
whole plot comes out of nowhere in the last 90% of the book. There must’ve been some
hurdles to jump to get Russia and the United States to comply with each other.

The book ends with Trigger, one of the ships, flying away from the island and Earth
altogether. It is revealed that he plans to take over the universe because he feels betrayed by
how the 10 countries reacted to their work. I am hoping that in book 6 this will be the main
focus. These books have jumped around from plot to plot in the same book. Everything has
been a great setup but the situations just wrap up too soon leaving me as a reader unsatisfied
with the ending. It also doesn’t help that Donald is all-powerful. I am never once concerned for
his safety. After reading all 5 books it feels like Donald is just a puppet for the writer to destroy
all the wrongs he sees in the world. He doesn’t feel like his own character. When the 6th book
gets released, I will be reading and reviewing it.

All of Philip S. Woods’s Semi-Terrestrial books are available on Amazon.