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kristinschoellkopf's review
5.0
Writing the third book in a series can be challenging. Sometimes, series become less and less convincing with every book. Not this one.
I was highly anticipating Brian Simons´ new LitRPG-novel and I was not disappointed. Reading about a world that the reader knows to be hurtful to the characters makes him/her yell inside his/her head: When will they finally do something about it? Transcend is answering the reader´s questions by turning this fictional world into something even the characters, trying to hide from their reality, can hardly stand anymore. This alleged world of safety is threatening its players and the story is as exciting as ever. The characters are faced with serious challenges they have to constantly deliberate about and this gives the reader a chance to get to know them in a way he/she hasn´t before. I now feel like I have Coral all figured out – the way you would have a friend. In the second book of the series, I felt like the characters and I were growing apart but now it seems as if the bond between reader and protagonists could not be stronger. This development is not only astonishing, but a great achievement of the author as well. Brian Simons has – as I have said so repeatedly – a great style of writing. He has the ability to let this fictional world come to live and engage the reader in a way only very few authors can.
This book poses an ending to the series. Nevertheless, I hope the story will continue and Brian Simons will entertain us with a few more stories we will lose our minds in.
Rating
Travail Online: Transcend by Brian Simons is a wonderful third book in the series.
I was highly anticipating Brian Simons´ new LitRPG-novel and I was not disappointed. Reading about a world that the reader knows to be hurtful to the characters makes him/her yell inside his/her head: When will they finally do something about it? Transcend is answering the reader´s questions by turning this fictional world into something even the characters, trying to hide from their reality, can hardly stand anymore. This alleged world of safety is threatening its players and the story is as exciting as ever. The characters are faced with serious challenges they have to constantly deliberate about and this gives the reader a chance to get to know them in a way he/she hasn´t before. I now feel like I have Coral all figured out – the way you would have a friend. In the second book of the series, I felt like the characters and I were growing apart but now it seems as if the bond between reader and protagonists could not be stronger. This development is not only astonishing, but a great achievement of the author as well. Brian Simons has – as I have said so repeatedly – a great style of writing. He has the ability to let this fictional world come to live and engage the reader in a way only very few authors can.
This book poses an ending to the series. Nevertheless, I hope the story will continue and Brian Simons will entertain us with a few more stories we will lose our minds in.
Rating
Travail Online: Transcend by Brian Simons is a wonderful third book in the series.
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