Access Transcendence (Transcendence, #1) Fabricated By C.J. Omololu Presented As Mobi

Interesting paranormal concept that played out in a disconnected, melodramatic plot with forgettable characters,

Perfect for: People who still love vampire stories, or are bored of vampire stories but still want that romancebetweenbeingswitheternallife thing, People who are interested in the concept of reincarnation,

sitelink Find out about what the heck Akhet are and why the book didnt make the best use of them Transcendence is the kind of book that hits my sweet spot.
It's based in reality but an enhanced reality, a magical reality, It's here and now but with a fun twist: reincarnation,

I really loved the way C, J. Omololu weaved the snippets of memory of Cole's past lives into the narrative, The flow was smooth and I always felt as though I was right there with her, The overall writing is fabulous, I love good writing where I might think, "Wow, I love how she put that," without being yanked out of the story by "showy" writing, I hate when the author is too present in a book, Transcendence

DOES NOT have that problem at all, This is also true in Ms, Omololu's first novel, Dirty Little Secrets, She's a wonderful writer!

Probably my favorite things about this book is the little peek we get into the underground world of the Sekhem, an organized group of Akhet people who remember their past lives who use their ability to help mankind.
We just get a hint of it this time around, b/c this story is an introduction for the character into that world, but I just know hope that we'll get more into it in the next book.
Ooooooo, I can't wait.

My only complaint with this book is that I'm done with it and now have to wait for the second one, It had an interesting premise, there were some page turning moments , but it some really slow moments, too, I was expecting more powers, more of the supernatural, the powers were quite watered down, how ever the telempathy was a nice touch,

verall, a decent read I received a copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley,
This is a fantastic book! I'm so glad it's got a sequel because I definitely want more of Griffon and Cole!
I was hooked from the first chapter that describes Cole and her sister Kat on a Spring Break trip to London.
That's where Cole starts having disturbing visions and she meets Griffon for the first time,
When she returns home to San Francisco and the visions continues, Cole thinks she's going crazy, She reconnects with Griffon and he helps her to understand what is going on with her,
The evolution of Cole's understanding and acceptance of who she is as an Akhet was perfectly paced, She was of course shocked and skeptical but grew to trust Griffon and his explanation, Through this their relationship progressed, That was also done flawlessly, with Cole having to overcome her own normal teenage insecurities to pursue a relationship with this unique guy,
The rogue Akhet storyline was good but one that I figured out early on, Although there weren't any shocking surprises, I was still riveted and anxiously awaited the final resolution,
A chance meeting between Cole and one of her sister's coworkers sets the stage for book two, Thankfully this one doesn't end on a cliff hanger but I am excited to see how this latest plot wrinkle will be explored in next year's book, Fated.

This is an exciting new series and I'm excited to read more from C, J. Omololu!
Supernatural/scifiish elements: great, Teen romance elements: blech. The plot is interesting if occasionally predictable, but Cole's internal monologue regarding Griffon sounded a lot, too much like Bella Swan, So right now, four in a few weeks we'll see which feeling I'm left with more strongly, and whether I drop it to three, More like threeandahalf.

Note: I bought this book because the cover photo looks so remarkably like the two main characters in my WIP, especially the guy, and I wanted to make sure the publisher knows people will purchase books with a mixedrace couple on the cover, particularly a prominent black boy.
Luckily, the plot also sounded like my kind of thing,

The story gets off to a quick start, with Cole having a vision in London, then slows down for aboutpages when she gets back to San Francisco and starts going through her daily life.
But then it really picked up, and I could hardly put it down, I really enjoyed this book, The writing was good the pacing very good after that dawdling bit the characters were interesting and mostly believable Griffon was a guy you might definitely fall in love with unlike so many of these paranormal boys the plot made sense and the worldbuilding was very good every time I thought of a question, the author answered it pretty shortly thereafter.
She clearly put a lot of thought into what it might be like to be bothand a sort of adult who can remember growing up multiple times, marrying, raising kids, etc.
And she was not afraid to let it be uncomfortable,

It wasn't perfect, of course, Griffon said a couple of things that I found flatout squicky but I still developed a huge crush on him anyway, Some of the abilities carried over from multiple lifetimes were just too much, and bordered on the supernatural/superpower end of things rather than what seems organic.
I ended up wondering what on earth Griffon was doing wasting his time going to high school, when it was clearly even more pointless for him than foryearold teenlooking vampires.
I was most dismayed by the purported existence of a secret global cabal consisting of all these reincarnated people, whose goal is to save the world that's either superhero territory or, worse, overlord territory, and we all know how well overlords work out, no matter how wellintentioned they are, right

But overall, none of these things was big enough to detract from the pleasure of reading this book and finding out how everything worked and what happened next.
I was happy to see that the author let Griffon be a GUY, and that Cole and Griffon were allowed to act on their physical attraction,

The ending completes the conflict in this book, but leaves a thread or two open for continuation into sequels, In this case, I would love to read a sequel, . . or two or three. If not, I sure hope C, J. Omololu writes some more paranormaltype books,

Definitely recommended, although I'm only giving it threeandahalf on account of the squickfactor, which increased for me after I finished the book, Knappe, aber doch wohlverdienteSterne! Das Einzige, was mir nicht ganz so gut gefallen hat, war der leicht vorschnelle Anfang, aber danach gefielen mir Cole und die ganze Handlung einfach nur richtig gut.
Das Ende war erst unglaublich spannend ich dachte erst "Oh nein, nicht so ein IchwusstedassdaspassiertEnde!", wurde dann aber eines Besseren belehrt und dann einfach nur unglaublich schön.

Ich freue mich auf "Für immer die Zweifel",