Endless: Oh Death, Where Is Thy Victory?

Veiled #3

by S.B. Niccum

“Dying is easy—effortless—rather. Shedding your body is like coming into a room and hanging up your coat. You’re still you, nothing has changed, other than your coat is off and… well… it’s no longer on you.

I know this because I’m dead. Yet I’ve found that death is not what we should fear. Who we are when we die, is perhaps what should concern us most about crossing over. For in death, all we have is what we really are.” –Tess

Obsessed about finding Alex, her soul mate, and her father, Leo, Tess does the unthinkable and unwittingly traps herself in the dark side of the afterlife. And what she finds there is not what she came looking for. The longer she stays in the darkness the harder it will be to get out.

Hoping that her love for Alex will keep her from slipping further into the darkness, she searches, and searches through this infernal place. But her nature is beginning to change—she’s becoming cynical, hardened, and apathetic—and she just got here. How has this darkness changed Alex?

Can love exist in Hell?

236 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

S.B. Niccum was born in Rosario, Argentina and raised in Buenos Aires. Her family immigrated to the US, when she was fourteen. Silvina now lives in San Diego, CA, with her husband and their many pets, including giant tortoises.

Reviews

[S.B. Niccum]

This last book of the Veiled Trilogy will take you to hell and back!

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is a great book to read

[Jessica Squires · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have not read the previous books. I was given the opportunity to read this book and review it and I loved the preview for it. Although I was missing apparently, a lifetime and then some from the previous books I still enjoyed this book so much!! The way the author creates these characters, their stories and worlds are mind blowing! The premortal beings, life on earth and after life and so many details. I also loved the fact the main character’s name is Tess, that is my younger sisters name and you don’t see it often. So for Christmas I am thinking of buying her the whole series because of this reason and I’m positive she will love it.
This story follows Tess after she has passed away. I am not sure how she actually died because I skipped the first two books which I must read them now! You watch as she tries to save her husband Alex and father, Leo, who are trapped in their own bubbles in Hell. When she arrives to save him, she realized her task is much more difficult than she first anticipated. She meets a few trapped spirtis and lives in their bubble of hell briefly. It’s a whirlwind of horrors. Something happens and she is lead to her father and Alex, but she is not allowed to contact them until she makes a deal. A deal that will change everything. She opens a rift to the mortal world, just as Alex sees her, she tells him to stay away to protect him and she is sucked into the rift. So now Alex and her father are still trapped there and now Alex thinks she left him there on purpose. This causes so much heartache for both Alex and Tess and the reader as well. She has so much she has to do in order to get back to him and free him. In the process seeing Niccum’s descriptions of Heaven and the angels and opening and just so much amazing details that make this story line so much more amazing its unreal. This book, as I’m sure the whole trilogy, gives the reader hope in true love, the kind that is “Endless”. Although I was confused about some references to previous books and how Tess and Alex and everyone got to where they were this was an amazing story to read and I loved how it ended!!

I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator in exchange for an unbiased review via Audiobook Boom.

[Kristel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, I enjoyed the way the author created the worlds and ideas of the pre-mortal, earth life and after-life in her series of books. I was anxious to see what ideas, thoughts and details she was going to put into Endless. I was pleasantly surprised by her views about after-life. I think it ended well but a bit under dramatic. I loved following the character Tess throughout all of these realms. I like the way she made this partly religious fiction, adventurous and interesting. Some of the author's writing and plotting doesn't flow easily but other than that I enjoyed the series.

[A.G. Lindsay · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was aptly named: It certainly seemed Endless.

Too much exposition, not enough action (which is really irritating when part of the plot encompasses the ultimate fight between good and evil: armageddon.)

The characters are not as tight and the plot is meandery. I really wish I had stayed with my first thought after reading the one before it, Living Soul, and did not try to read the others in the series.

[Jeana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Phenomenal series. Loved Tess, Alex, and everyone else. Makes a person think about all this series was about.highly recommend these books to everyone, if not for entertainment then a thought of what may come in the real world.

[S.B. Niccum · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved writing this book! It was a challenge in many ways. But letting my imagination go and imagining what life after death would be like was quite a ride.

[Lelouch · Rating 3 out of 5]

This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBoom dot com.

Warning for anyone on audible: this book is categorized as christianity, but it's really a scifi/fantasy with some spiritual concepts. It's an interesting mix, but I felt it was a little slow for my taste.

The narrator did well, using enthusiasm and fear as she gets into the characters.