Transmentation/Transience

Or, an Accession to the People’s Council for Nine Thousand Worlds

By: Darkly Lem

Narrated by: Dion Graham

From bestselling authors Darkly Lem comes Transmentation | Transience, the first book in a sweeping multiverse of adventure and intrigue, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and The Expanse series.

Over thousands of years and thousands of worlds, universe-spanning societies of interdimensional travelers have arisen. Some seek to make the multiverse a better place, some seek power and glory, others knowledge, while still others simply want to write their own tale across the cosmos.

When a routine training mission goes very wrong, two competing societies are thrust into an unwanted confrontation. As intelligence officer Malculm Kilkaneade receives the blame within Burel Hird, Roamers of Tala Beinir and Shara find themselves inadvertently swept up in an assassination plot.

Meanwhile, factions within Burel Hird are vying for greater control over their society in a war of cutthroat machinations—at a heavy price. Elsewhere, two members of rival societies lay their own plans for insurrection—with ramifications that will ripple across the Many Worlds ...

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World building

The world building in this book is amazing. The characters are the ones that bring the world to life. Though the storyline and the overall feel of the book is a little predictable. Very typical tropes but done well. I will listen to it again because I’m sure I missed a lot of the detail. Overall, a good book, fairly well done.

story boards matter

I love SCI-FI stories the longer and more complicated the better. This book is trying so hard to be that it misses the mark on comprehensibility. Amazing narrator, to the author story board your series before you pen a prequel this series will need one....

Great storyline

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. If you like sci- fi, fantasy, or dystopian type stories this is for you. It’s an interesting blend. It pulls you into the story immediately & is captivating. I’m already looking forward to the next book when it is published.

DNF Terrible

just pr a ddles on and on and on. voice actors make everyone sound nonlinear. it is terrible.