I’m delighted to be joining the blog tour for The Transcendent Tide. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to Orenda Books for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

It’s been eighteen months since the Enceladons escaped the clutches of an American military determined to exterminate the peaceful alien creatures.

Lennox and Vonnie have been lying low in the Scottish Highlands, Ava has been caring for her young daughter Chloe, and Heather is adjusting to her new life with Sandy and the other Enceladons in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of Greenland. But fate is about to bring them together again for one last battle.

When Lennox and Vonnie are visited by Karl Jensen, a Norwegian billionaire intent on making contact with the Encedalons again, they are wary of subjecting the aliens to further dangers. But when word arrives that Ava’s daughter has suffered an attack and might die without urgent help, they reluctantly make the trip to Greenland, where they enlist the vital help of local woman Niviaq.

It’s not long before they’re drawn into a complex web of lies, deceit and death. What is Karl’s company really up to? Why are sea creatures attacking boats? Why is Sandy acting so strangely, and why are polar bears getting involved?

Profound, ambitious and immensely moving, The Transcendent Tide is the epic conclusion to the Encedalons Trilogy – a final showdown between the best and worst of humanity, the animal kingdom and the Encedalons. The future of life on earth will be changed forever, but not everyone will survive to see it…

Review:

I love this series and I’m feeling quite sad that this is the final instalment in the trilogy. As a science fiction series, it’s quite far out of my comfort zone, but Doug Johnstone’s descriptions pull me into a world I was able to picture, and become immersed in, very easily. 

The Transcendent Tide is, like the other books in the series, narrated by Lennox, Heather and Ava, but we also hear from Vonnie and Niviaq. I enjoyed seeing the events in the novel from their point of view and getting to know them. Each character is wonderfully constructed, particularly in terms of their emotions, and I loved being able to connect with them, rooting for them the whole way through. 

Although the novel has a science fiction theme, The Transcendent Tide, like its predecessors, is much more concerned with human relationships and connections and this comes through even more in this novel. Doug Johnstone really gets to the heart of what it is to be human and I’ll be thinking about this for a long time to come.

As the plot gathers pace, The Transcendent Tide becomes an exciting story that is full of tension. I couldn’t stop turning the pages, and the conflict had me on the edge of my seat.
The ending of The Transcendent Tide is incredibly sad, and I have to admit that I cried

The Transcendent Tide is available from Amazon.

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