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Liminal Space
** The thrilling finale trilogy to the 25-book Amaranthe saga begins **
A war has raged for endless aeons. Our greatest champions have fought it again and again in a tireless endeavor to save not merely innumerable lives, but existence itself.
It is a war that has never been won. But there has never been a timeline like this one before.
When Alex Solovy deactivated the Piega Strai to save two billion Elakri from annihilation, she never imagined the consequences would ripple across the universe. Now the Dzhvar, ancient devourers of the cosmic manifold, have returned from their million-year exile. And the weapon that once repelled them, diati, is nowhere to be found.
Though haunted by guilt, loss, and the weight of a relentless cycle of sacrifice, Alex and her allies—warriors, scientists, sentient planets and primordial beings—must step up to confront an impossible enemy. While Miriam marshals fleets to battle a foe no armament can touch and Alex probes scars in the cosmic fabric to solve a puzzle that spans time and space, Nika’s quest to unlock new kyoseil abilities pushes her ever closer to discovering the devastating truth about her past and future.
Secrets a million years in the making are about to come into the light.
In this epic opening to the Amaranthe saga’s final trilogy, destinies long foretold collide with shocking new revelations. Every alliance created, every technological marvel invented and every hero forged will be brought to bear against an enemy that threatens to unravel the very threads of the universe.
If Alex Solovy has anything to say about it, for the last time.
A war has raged for endless aeons. Our greatest champions have fought it again and again in a tireless endeavor to save not merely innumerable lives, but existence itself.
It is a war that has never been won. But there has never been a timeline like this one before.
When Alex Solovy deactivated the Piega Strai to save two billion Elakri from annihilation, she never imagined the consequences would ripple across the universe. Now the Dzhvar, ancient devourers of the cosmic manifold, have returned from their million-year exile. And the weapon that once repelled them, diati, is nowhere to be found.
Though haunted by guilt, loss, and the weight of a relentless cycle of sacrifice, Alex and her allies—warriors, scientists, sentient planets and primordial beings—must step up to confront an impossible enemy. While Miriam marshals fleets to battle a foe no armament can touch and Alex probes scars in the cosmic fabric to solve a puzzle that spans time and space, Nika’s quest to unlock new kyoseil abilities pushes her ever closer to discovering the devastating truth about her past and future.
Secrets a million years in the making are about to come into the light.
In this epic opening to the Amaranthe saga’s final trilogy, destinies long foretold collide with shocking new revelations. Every alliance created, every technological marvel invented and every hero forged will be brought to bear against an enemy that threatens to unravel the very threads of the universe.
If Alex Solovy has anything to say about it, for the last time.
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Published September 26, 2025
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About the author
G.S. Jennsen
52 books517 followersG. S. Jennsen is a speculative and science fiction author, as well as a futurist, geek, gamer, programmer and editor. She has become an internationally bestselling author since her first novel, Starshine, was published in March 2014. She has chosen to continue writing under an independent publishing model to ensure the integrity of her series and her ability to execute on the vision she’s had for it since its genesis.
While she has been a lawyer, a software engineer and an editor, she’s found the life of a full-time author preferable by several orders of magnitude.
When she isn’t writing, she’s gaming or working out or getting lost in the mountains that loom large outside the windows in her home. Or she’s dealing with a flooded basement, or standing in a line at Walmart reading the tabloid headlines and wondering who all of those people are. Or sitting on her back porch with a glass of wine, looking up at the stars, trying to figure out what could be up there.
While she has been a lawyer, a software engineer and an editor, she’s found the life of a full-time author preferable by several orders of magnitude.
When she isn’t writing, she’s gaming or working out or getting lost in the mountains that loom large outside the windows in her home. Or she’s dealing with a flooded basement, or standing in a line at Walmart reading the tabloid headlines and wondering who all of those people are. Or sitting on her back porch with a glass of wine, looking up at the stars, trying to figure out what could be up there.
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September 26, 2025
How I'm still invested after 23 books, I have no idea. But somehow, despite narrow odds, the stakes are higher than ever, the adventure is exciting, the plot threads feel new, and the bad guys are ultra bad. I couldn't be more pleased with this book!
The only thing that upsets me is that I have to wait for the next one. <3
The only thing that upsets me is that I have to wait for the next one. <3
October 17, 2025
Similar to what others have already said - here we are, 23 books in, and I'm still completely captivated by the story unravelling. I have read plenty of sci-fi in my time, and when I say the ideas explored in this series are completely novel, I mean it. There are complex explorations of concepts that would be welcome in any hard sci-fi writers repertoire, but Jennsen is able to navigate through the morass of these ideas in a way that makes it both digestable to the average reader while still pleasing the nerds like myself that like some tether to the hard sciences.
Liminal Space manages to cram in all of our favorite characters from the previous entries in a way that allows for the reader to understand how each will be positioned in the coming final fight against the Dzhvar. With a character list that has been developed over many books and a time gap from when they were all last working together, I was hesitant to believe each would be able to have their time in the spotlight. I think Jennsen pulled this off quite well. Each had their time, albeit some more than others, but I think it providing a good launching point for what we can expect for the finale.
I never thought when I read Starshine I would be here, at book 23, eagerly waiting books 24 and 25. I think it is all shaping up to be a spectacular conclusion to what I consider a placeholder in the top five series of all time per my time as a reader.
Thank you for telling us your story. I know I have found immense joy and wonderment as I have explores the world you have built. Can't wait to put in my preorder for The Theory of Everything !(incredible titles for 23 & 24, btw)
Liminal Space manages to cram in all of our favorite characters from the previous entries in a way that allows for the reader to understand how each will be positioned in the coming final fight against the Dzhvar. With a character list that has been developed over many books and a time gap from when they were all last working together, I was hesitant to believe each would be able to have their time in the spotlight. I think Jennsen pulled this off quite well. Each had their time, albeit some more than others, but I think it providing a good launching point for what we can expect for the finale.
I never thought when I read Starshine I would be here, at book 23, eagerly waiting books 24 and 25. I think it is all shaping up to be a spectacular conclusion to what I consider a placeholder in the top five series of all time per my time as a reader.
Thank you for telling us your story. I know I have found immense joy and wonderment as I have explores the world you have built. Can't wait to put in my preorder for The Theory of Everything !(incredible titles for 23 & 24, btw)
September 25, 2025
The gang’s back, y’all.
I had a lot of fun with the smaller, more contained stories in the Cosmic Shores novels, but reading this book felt like being reunited with a bunch of old friends. I hadn’t realized how much I missed the full Amaranthe cast after spending the last three books with (mostly) individual members, especially given some of the bombs we got dropped on us toward the end of the Riven Worlds arc.
If you’re reading this review, chances are you’re a veteran reader of this series and have already read them, but while they’re technically standalone stories, I would highly recommend checking out those Cosmic Shores books before diving into Liminal Space. Each CS novel ties into this new Amaranthe arc to varying degrees, but The Universe Within in particular introduces some pretty heavy implications regarding the big final boss of this saga: the universe-killing, manifold-eating, seemingly unstoppable Dzhvar.
This is one of those stories where you just know the heroes are going to win in the end, but everything’s looking pretty bleak at this point and you can’t for the life of you figure out how that victory is going to come about. Half the characters in this book are wrestling with personal insecurities of some kind as they struggle to figure out how to stop the destruction of the universe (I mean, who can blame them?). The other half are wrestling with the dire secrets they’ve been forced to keep. Meanwhile, Mesme and the Kats are being cryptic as ever (if you know, you know).
While Alex, Caleb, Nika, Miriam, and Corradeo deal with the Dzhvar’s inevitable arrival in a more direct sense, characters like Eren, Nyx (aka My Faves™), Richard, and Marlee are still having adventures of their own…because it never fails in this series that even when there’s a big baddie threatening the entirety of civilization, someone somewhere still feels compelled to cause problems on a smaller scale that need to be dealt with. That someone is a familiar face this time around, and despite being an incredibly unpleasant person, that conflict makes for a fun side story…a side story that is almost certainly not over yet.
In pretty much every review I’ve written for this series, I’ve commented on how massive its scope is, and that feels especially true now that we’re closing in on the end of the saga. The final two books are going to be the culmination of every single thing that has happened since Starshine (and even before), and I can’t wait to see how it all works out.
I had a lot of fun with the smaller, more contained stories in the Cosmic Shores novels, but reading this book felt like being reunited with a bunch of old friends. I hadn’t realized how much I missed the full Amaranthe cast after spending the last three books with (mostly) individual members, especially given some of the bombs we got dropped on us toward the end of the Riven Worlds arc.
If you’re reading this review, chances are you’re a veteran reader of this series and have already read them, but while they’re technically standalone stories, I would highly recommend checking out those Cosmic Shores books before diving into Liminal Space. Each CS novel ties into this new Amaranthe arc to varying degrees, but The Universe Within in particular introduces some pretty heavy implications regarding the big final boss of this saga: the universe-killing, manifold-eating, seemingly unstoppable Dzhvar.
This is one of those stories where you just know the heroes are going to win in the end, but everything’s looking pretty bleak at this point and you can’t for the life of you figure out how that victory is going to come about. Half the characters in this book are wrestling with personal insecurities of some kind as they struggle to figure out how to stop the destruction of the universe (I mean, who can blame them?). The other half are wrestling with the dire secrets they’ve been forced to keep. Meanwhile, Mesme and the Kats are being cryptic as ever (if you know, you know).
While Alex, Caleb, Nika, Miriam, and Corradeo deal with the Dzhvar’s inevitable arrival in a more direct sense, characters like Eren, Nyx (aka My Faves™), Richard, and Marlee are still having adventures of their own…because it never fails in this series that even when there’s a big baddie threatening the entirety of civilization, someone somewhere still feels compelled to cause problems on a smaller scale that need to be dealt with. That someone is a familiar face this time around, and despite being an incredibly unpleasant person, that conflict makes for a fun side story…a side story that is almost certainly not over yet.
In pretty much every review I’ve written for this series, I’ve commented on how massive its scope is, and that feels especially true now that we’re closing in on the end of the saga. The final two books are going to be the culmination of every single thing that has happened since Starshine (and even before), and I can’t wait to see how it all works out.
November 8, 2025
Another great book.
I found GS when i read Starshine and have read every book after that. I fell in love with Alex and her unorthodox way of thinking and connecting with the other characters, especially her mother. I was amazed as each book guided me through multiple universes, pockets of space that contained other worlds populated with aliens that quickly became friends. I am in awe of her writing style, and ability to create worlds so real i want to visit them. I will reread this book until the next comes out and i can visit Amaranthe once again.
I found GS when i read Starshine and have read every book after that. I fell in love with Alex and her unorthodox way of thinking and connecting with the other characters, especially her mother. I was amazed as each book guided me through multiple universes, pockets of space that contained other worlds populated with aliens that quickly became friends. I am in awe of her writing style, and ability to create worlds so real i want to visit them. I will reread this book until the next comes out and i can visit Amaranthe once again.
October 28, 2025
Expansive as ever
Across time and space through the looking glass and now leaving me on the brink to wait for a year!! Not fair, but understandable I conceed. What is not to like/enjoy about this story and the whole series. I will wait albeit not too happy for the next cosmic journey. With all the characters that you have created who have become more like old friends.
Across time and space through the looking glass and now leaving me on the brink to wait for a year!! Not fair, but understandable I conceed. What is not to like/enjoy about this story and the whole series. I will wait albeit not too happy for the next cosmic journey. With all the characters that you have created who have become more like old friends.
October 31, 2025
A brilliant new start to the next chapter in the Amaranthe universe
November 4, 2025
Another intriguing book in the ongoing story of Amaranthe with twists and turns as we have come to expect from Jennsen. Whether the universe will survived is yet to be revealed. I am going to have to wait another two years to find out the full story but another step in only one year.
November 25, 2025
And so the final trilogy of this magnificent series gets underway. The very existence of the universe is now at stake. Another cracking read featuring our regular protagonists, highly recommended
October 12, 2025
This is one of my favorite series. I couldn’t put this down and left on the edge of my seat with the last chapter.
December 13, 2025
Another great chapter in the universe of Amaranthe
I love this saga set in the universe of Amaranthe. It is bittersweet that this if the beginning of the end. I love these characters, the action, the storylines, and the magical intertwined with the technology. I strongly recommend starting at the beginning and working, no enjoying, your way to this book.
I love this saga set in the universe of Amaranthe. It is bittersweet that this if the beginning of the end. I love these characters, the action, the storylines, and the magical intertwined with the technology. I strongly recommend starting at the beginning and working, no enjoying, your way to this book.
December 30, 2025
This series is epic in scope and this newest addition doesn't disappoint. Complex and multi-layered in plot as well as characters, it still manages to have a very personal touch. Great world-building, compelling and flawed heroes and heroines, and the science is both wild and grounded. I don't know how Ms. Jennsen does it!
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