Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty: Gods, half gods, Ragnarok! Can Mason save the world?

Opening Sentence: “This is not right…,” Mason Starling murmured softly as sank to her knees beside the crumpled form at the center of a swiftly widening circle of blood.”

The Review:

So please be aware that if you have not read Starling or Descendant this will contain spoilers. So please STOP now and read the first two books before reading Transcendent. Literally, Transcendent starts where Descendant ends. Mason has become a Valkyrie and Cal stabbed Fennrys, so in moments Mason is begging Rafe to save Fennrys. In doing so she has fulfilled another part of the prophecy by making Fennrys the Wolf!

Fennrys finds his mother and finds out that he is Loki’s son, and he was sent away so that he wouldn’t fulfill his part in the prophecy, but considering the love between Mason and Fennrys, things are different than they should be. In the shocking conclusion of Descendant we find out Roth killed Mason while under some form of control by a god. Mason’s mother had become Hel, so she sent her back but all of this is part of what enables her to become a Valkyrie. Mason is working overtime to not start Ragnarok. I can’t say too much more along these lines because of spoilers!

Transcendent is a pretty satisfying ending to the trilogy! All-in-all, these were good books. I think the romance could have been done a touch more, but I did love Mason and Fennrys. I did find it a little funny that in each book these kids are finding out they aren’t quite human. The stretching out of all the half gods unveiling was a little silly, but I will say it all made sense within the storyline. It played into a larger part of the story, which I found interesting!

I want to say I loved this book and the trilogy, but I didn’t. I enjoyed them and I liked them. I just didn’t quite connect with all of the main characters. I didn’t quite get all the additions from other pantheons of gods. For the most part this was a Norse story, but Venus and Poseidon and a whole other host of Greek gods and Egyptian gods just kept popping up. They didn’t detract from the story as a whole; I just didn’t get how they fit in other than with the main theme of keeping Ragnarok from happening.

Notable Scenes:

“But even still, she couldn’t stop from feeling the girl’s death in her Valkyrie’s heart.”

“So she could burn down the world.”

“When Mason Starling was a child, she’d died.”

FTC Advisory: HarperTeen provided me with a copy of Transcendent. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review. ( )