A review by amalies
Transcendent by Lesley Livingston

4.0

I am really glad that the third book in his series really wrapped up end that were left open through the first two books. Of course there is the gamut of death, love, war and important decisions to make on the spot. There were a few things that were really hard for me to piece together, but maybe if I had a bit more background understanding of Norse mythology I would have been able to grasp it getter. I like how the fates of all the main characters turned out. I also like that they are not all neatly wrapped up which leaves us to see that the story will continue on past our view into it and loves go on no matter what we learn. The visitation of all the various supernatural aspects of the book are very cool and well woven into the story. I did enjoy trying to dissect the people who were descendants of Greek gods/semi-gods/etc. from Norse history. It is really interesting intertwining all of them. One of my main causes of dislike is all he swearing. Just because teenagers do it around the world, doesn't mean that you need to bring that to a story. It's unnecessary. The author was the audiobook reader. Her small laugh is incredibly annoying and curt. Definitely my least favorite part of the listening experience. However, I feel like there were several moments that an author reading a book made the story really good, esp. The syntactical reading of the prophecy when the punctuation changed and therefor people's understanding changed. It was a good book.