“You will have survivors from Earth, if I can have Amber – it turns out your planet has something worthwhile to offer me after all.”When NASA began their negotiations with the arriving aliens who offered them desperately needed salvation, they didn’t know they were dealing with a monster, a universal terrorist, driven to possess, conquer and destroy. Incapable of love and devoid of compassion, he … of love and devoid of compassion, he was only saving a human colony to appease his brother who ruled their planet in a solar system far away.
When evacuation negotiations become difficult, he defies his brother’s blue print and changes the deal. After months of coveting the chief negotiators repressed and dominated fiancé – he offers her liberation she doesn’t even realize she needs and finds a devious way to make her his own.
The story begins months later: When Amber wakes up after a crash landing to find herself on a hostile planet with a “man” beside her that “shifts” into a demon warrior whilst protecting her from the wild creatures they run into.
She can’t remember him, nor can she remember the end of Earth and how she came to be in a new solar system with an alien who claims they are lovers. Even though she is wildly attracted to him something feels amiss, especially his recount of how they came to be together after Earth’s mysterious ending, or why they can’t immediately return to his home planet where he is the Monarch’s son.
As their adventure continues, Amber is hurtled into worlds that both stun and defy her imagination. Her continued flashbacks of another lover, the mystery surrounding her departure from Earth and how she came to be the coveted spouse and princess on his planet are slowly revealed to her along with the terrifying choices she has made to survive.
Who should read this book?
This is a hybrid series:
It has everything paranormal romance readers love: with a handsome alien monarchy who shift into demon warriors when attacked AND
It has everything that fantasy readers love – New Kingdoms and New Worlds with magic and sorcery.
It’s packed with adventure and intrigue in every chapter and contains lots of romance & simmering sex too.
It takes the reader on a wild ride from a hostile foreign planet with savage creatures to a new kingdom filled with intrigue and mystery.
AUTHOR NOTE: This IS NOT a quick steamy read, it’s both a Space Opera and Epic Fantasy all rolled into one action packed series. There is a HEA for the main characters but a cliff hanger lead up to the second book
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It feels like I have read two books at once, and I can’t really tell if that is a bad or a good thing. My mind is reeling after the complex and secretive adventure Amnesia put me through and while some of the adventure was much enjoyed, it also at times felt like a too long journey on a straight and boring road.
What has really stuck with me is the beginning of the book, when the biggest struggle was Amber’s Amnesia and her confusion over who Wrexel was to her as well as all the other men she found out about. The unknown information of what all the men meant to her made me fear that the book was going to turn into a reversed harem. Luckily I needn’t had worried since this was cleared up later on. Either way, the different lovers bomb that was dropped and kept mysteriously vague was very cleverly written into catching my attention and pulling me in to the story right away. The complications and her fear and confusion over who she was, where she was and what she found herself in the middle of built the story and her personality, as well as mysterious and overly protective Wrexel’s personality, beautifully. Their rocky but thrilling relationship and vague revelations from her missing memory kept me on my toes with my nose glued to the pages … until she finally remembered.
It was like suddenly reading a completely different book. Instead of following Amber and Wrexel working things out we were thrown back to the beginning to when they met and the story started developing from there and ending with present time just after she gotten her memories back. There is of course nothing wrong with the book written this way. As a matter of fact I found it imaginative and unique in a way. However, the reason for it feeling like I read another book is because that spark, drama and thrill I felt when reading it was suddenly gone. The main focus before that was their relationship and current struggles. Now the story was suddenly crammed with politics, war and culture. It couldn’t find any interest in any of it and neither in the relationship.
Amber and Wrexel felt like different people all of a sudden. Amber being a Mary Sue disguised as a damsel in constant distress, crying, fainting and the whole shebang. Wrexel gave little to no emotion other than lust, anger or indifference. Both personalities fell flat and therefore so did the romance. Their relationship was all about lust and sex which, considering their agreement, was not that out of order in the beginning. However I never felt like it really developed to much else throughout the story no matter what was said and done. This was most likely thanks to the one dimensional personalities. The book was more driven by the politics and incidents surrounding that rather than characterization and romance. This was really too bad with such a good start to the book.
This might be a personal preference, but I believe the story would have been much more enjoyable and better put together if the past had been mixed in with the present in the form of flashbacks throughout the story, focusing more on the present. While still learning what happened in a controlled and built up way through the flashbacks we also would have gotten a much more developed relationship between them, with them having to work out what happened, the betrayal and their feelings. The ending, where we readers finally knew what had happened haven’t become so rushed with them both instantly okay with everything and resolving it almost by chance. Even better, since this book was so long, might have been to make it into two books instead of one and not having to cram so much of the political information, plot twists and all other aspect into one book.
I honestly wish so much that I had loved this book since it had such a compelling start, complex world and original plot. At the beginning I only had one complaint and that was the unfitting exclamation points. I had hoped that that was all I would have to complain about, but it just kept piling up. Still, it was an enjoyable read and I will give the next installment a chance sometime in the future.
This is a kindle e-book that I received through a Goodreads Giveaway. I loved it. I was immediately immersed in the characters, the worlds, and the storyline. It includes science fiction, fantasy, paranormal romance, sorcery, murder, alien skirmishes, and so much more. There are some steamy scenes so be aware of that going into the book. Canada Jackson was able to describe the worlds I visited in this book in such a way that I could see the grasses, the four moons, the asteroid, the aliens and more. She did this in a way that supported the storyline and did not detract from it. The main characters are fascinating, but not always likeable. There were internal, external and relationship struggles as well as considerable character growth for the main character. This is the first book that I have read by Canada Jackson, but it won’t be the last one.