Mark of Odin: The Awakening

· Mark of Odin Book 1 · La Marca de Odin · AI-narrated by Madison (from Google)
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New Edition - May 2026! Mark of Odin: The Awakening is the first book of the transmedia literary saga of Mark of Odin where Norse mythology meets modern warfare and science fiction like you have never seen before. Introduces a new literary model where you will be able to enjoy the fusion of a reading experience with the potential of an online platform with gamification features. All supported by a transmedia universe of extended content for all readers that want more once they finish the book.

The saga continues with Mark of Odin: Road to Valhalla and Mark of Odin: Ragnarok.

Mark of Odin saga has already reached more than 200,000 readers worldwide! Are you ready to accept the challenge and awake to your real fate to join the #MarkedbyOdin?

Synopsis

The year is 2012, Luis Oden is about to graduate as an Aerospace Engineer and he expects to be chosen to participate in the ambitious Project Hermes, to develop a new generation of space shuttles in the new European Aerospace Center of Seville, Spain. His life is seemingly perfect until he begins to suffer recurring nightmares where mighty beasts, that seem to come from the Norse mythology, assault and torture him urging him to wake up. But wake up to what?

Meanwhile, Jack Preston, a Lieutenant Colonel from the USAF and responsible for the tests of the X-56 Phoenix, a prototype of an orbital superiority combat jet fighter, is sent together with his crew to Seville to review the development of the Hermes program. There he will meet Luis when they are chosen to star the parachuting exhibition for the Day of Hispanity.

Both Luis and Preston ignore it, but a dark menace is coming and only their choices will be able to give a chance to humankind to survive.

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Once you have finished reading Mark of Odin: The Awakening if you have fallen in love with the story, want to have more stuff and support us go to the XaviVerso Store and buy the Online Pass.

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*Unique Serial Key to register in the Mark of Odin Community platform

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*Access to Three Bonus Chapters: Operation Nighthammer, The Last Recording and The Search of Hyperborea

*Access to Odinpedia Volume 1: Includes dozens of stories that explain what happens during the time that lasts between the end of the book and the start of Mark of Odin: Road to Valhalla (coming soon!).

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New Edition - May 2026! Mark of Odin: The Awakening is the first book of the transmedia literary saga of Mark of Odin where Norse mythology meets modern warfare and science fiction like you have never seen before. Introduces a new literary model where you will be able to enjoy the fusion of a rea...

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48 reviews
Adam McDonough
October 8, 2022
not bad. audio generated voice is great but as is usual, words with two or more pronunciations are always spoken in the wrong context-every time! It almost seems deliberate. Like "lives, bow, Dr. (as in a Doctor, or a street called a Drive) etc. You'd think the law of averages would make it pronounce a word in its intended pronunciation, but you'd be sadly mistaken. Otherwise I would rate many audio generated voices as 5☆-including the story, plot, characters & overall content-intellectual &/or emotional response rating but sadly we will be frustrated by poor spelling, grammar & pronunciations even with auto spelling, grammar & voice algorithms not to mention editing & proof reading! If the author or publisher even worry about those minor details just like most schools do with handwriting neatness, ratio of letters & words these days since handwriting is dying out like printed hard copy books & socialising face to face in the flesh, not using some electronic medium.
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Dianne Nothstein
November 8, 2024
halfway chapter 5 I couldn't go any further narrator has to be an AI bad AI. have no idea what the book is all about. and, I'll never know. 😴
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Kevin Geneugelijk
August 19, 2025
I really enjoyed this book! You can tell the author put a ton of research into it, but it never felt overwhelming—the technical stuff was explained in a way that was real easy to follow. The first half spends time introducing the characters, which I actually appreciated since this sets up a whole trilogy. By the time the story really kicks into gear in the second half, I felt connected to all characters. The action was incredible. It’s not easy to keep long action scenes exciting without dragging, but the author nailed it. Once it picked up, I couldn’t stop reading.
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About the author

Born in 1982 in Barcelona, Xavier Marcé graduated in Journalism in the city of Seville, where he lives after having lived in Badalona, Casablanca, Zurich, Oslo and Hanoi. 

Since 1996 he has specialized in the communication and management of online communities, mainly in the video game sector. He began his journalistic work collaborating for three years in the Micromanía Magazine, being responsible for the Online Zone section. In 2004 he founded, together with David Puig, the first magazine in Spanish specialized in the massively multiplayer online game, Juegaenred.com, and would direct it until 2013, at which time he left it to create a new magazine, GoMultiplayer. 

In 2007 he made the leap to the video game industry with Funcom as Spanish Community Manager of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and The Secret World until 2010. Since then, he has combined the publishing world with that of video games, mainly with Megapop Games, launching titles such as Trolls vs Vikings 1 & 2, Meganumbers, Haxity or Rob Riches, and the university world as a teacher in the Master in Online Marketing and Social Media Strategies at the University of Seville. 

A proactive and restless person, Xavier Marcé has set out to create new paths for literature with the transmedia literary saga of 'Mark of Odin'. After the release of the first three books of the saga: 'The Awakening', 'Road to Valhalla' and 'Ragnarok', Marcé publishes 'The Stone Lotus' his first independent fiction thriller novel resulting from his stay in Vietnam in 2022. In 2023 he decides to unify all his current and future works under the brand of

'XaviVerso', Xavier Marcé's literary universe where everything is connected. In addition, he published the political thriller 'Yes, They Will Pass! Civil War in 24 tweets', his most controversial work to date.

Born in 1982 in Barcelona, Xavier Marcé graduated in Journalism in the city of Seville, where he lives after having lived in Badalona, Casablanca, Zurich, Oslo and Hanoi. Since 1996 he has specialized in the communication and management of online communities, mainly in the video game sector. He ...

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