Variant: A Hard Sci Fi Thriller

Transcendence #3

by John Triptych

The lines are drawn, and the great game is about to begin.Wracked by guilt, Cassie Voges travels across a devastated landscape in an attempt to find some meaning to the chaos she has unleashed.

Meanwhile, two mutually opposing forces that will determine the fate of the world prepares for an apocalyptic showdown.

Global leaders unleash their formidable military might as they seek to take back what was lost, while the newly independent communities that were transformed by the alien organism aspire to rid their territories from the last vestiges of state control.

With this inevitable conflict now on the horizon, something is approaching Earth. Will it be a harbinger of peace, or a bringer of untold destruction?

Genres: Science Fiction

Audible Audio

Published June 11, 2024

Reviews

[Khalid Abdul-Mumin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as engaging as the first two but still readable. Continues with the pandemic plot thread started in the second book and drags it a bit. Now currently reading the fourth and it's pretty much more of the same with this one... But a bit slightly more engrossing.

[E J Peiker · Rating 2 out of 5]

This series had so much promise and started out as a good believable hard science fiction space story of intercepting a suspicious object that entered the solar system. The second book explored the virus that was brought back and then started to go off the rails a bit with weird monsters being created by the virus and then this, the third book went completely off the rales in a non sensical mish mash of stories that never really got tied together and seemed just random tales of nonsense. A very disappointing conclusion to awhat started as a compelling story. Basically read the first book and ignore the second and third as they go further and further off the rails.

[Marsha · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a whole, this series Has been pretty uneven. There are too many individual story threads. It’s not that it’s difficult to keep track of them, it just breaks the flow too much. The writer also has a tendency to veer off into a fantasy tone at times which is awkward and out of place.
I’m unclear if this is supposed to be a trilogy or if there’s more to come? I would hope the story doesn’t just end with absolutely no resolution to anything. The story just stops. So irritating!

[Karma Kimeleon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Again, worse than both books 1 and 2. This one is primary about the US, China, and Russia dick measuring while the world goes to hell. The dialogue of the Chinese astronauts is terrible at best, racist at worst. I was so anxious to get through the novel, I even considered not finishing it. It was a slog. This will be my last Triptych novel.

[Philip O. Pennington · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not worth your time

Poorly written, grammar and sentence structure mistakes throughout all three novels. I struggled through all three books to reach the conclusion. I was hoping for a resolution to the story lines but none was given. Amazon should be ashamed for printing such a piece of trash

[Patricia Silver · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can never get that time back

The first two books pulled me in, were interesting. Third book was repetitive and led to a hugely unsatisfying ending. There were some plot leads that went nowhere, and after slogging through it, getting to the last page was so anti-climatical I had to double-check that it was really the end.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed the many many characters. Wondered how they would be tied together. Have to wait for the next book. Not a fan of a serialized novel. Enjoyable read but left me unsatisfied.

[Renate Natalie N · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed it. Some disgusting bits, but yeah. Absolutely.