Like Roswell meets Lost in SpaceNineteen-year-old Elizabeth ‘Beta’ Camden is a survivor. When the E’mani—those pale alien freaks—destroy Earth with a plague of madness and scoop up the remains, Beta is one of the ‘lucky’ ones. For years, she endures their tortures, experiments and games. Then one day, she manages to escape their ship with her life, and no memory of her time with them. Stranded on …
Stranded on their world, Beta wanders the mountains, looking for a way home. She stumbles onto the Fost—the E’mani’s ancient enemy. Their war with the Imani is old and rooted in magic that the Fost once had and the Imani crave. Magic Beta soon discovers she’s developing along with strange tattoos and disturbing glimpses of her past. The Fost take her in and train her in their ways. As she spends more time with them, she falls in love with their culture and with Marin—he of the hot hands and slit eyes.
But the E’mani took her for a reason and they want her back—dead or alive. If Beta doesn’t remember that reason soon, they’re all going to die.
This is a re-release of a prior edition once rights were reverted back to the author.
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Other Books by Colleen S. Myers
Solum Series
Must Remember
Can’t Forget (www.mybook.to/cantforget2)
Distant Memory (www.mybook.to/distantmemory)
Future’s Past (coming soon)
Before the Fall/Rael (coming soon)
After the Fall (in the Wings of the Wicked Anthology)
Hometown Heroes
Whole Again (www.mybook.to/wholeagain)
Each Other’s Only (coming soon)
Burning Bright (coming soon)
Blood Series
Blood Will Tell (www.mybook.to/bloodwilltell)
There Will be Blood
Bloody Good
What a Witch! (Short in the Rite to Reign Anthology)
Short Stories
Missed Signals
The Dread Hannigan Christmas Story
Speed Dating
Upcoming Anthologies
Rite to Reign – What a Witch! (Blood Series Short)
Wings of the Wicked – After the Fall (Solum Series Short)
more
Must Remember: Dead or Alive, They Want her Back. Book 1 in the Solum Series by Colleen Myers
4 out of 5 Stars
Elizabeth “Beta” Camden has lived through a nightmare and survived. In her new post-apocalyptic world, she has survived the claiming and destroying of her world from the E’mani, the creepy alien men from Space. She suffers their experiments and torments, and finally she escapes.
She doesn’t remember the details of why, but they want her back….badly and they will do anything to get her back. In her fear and pursuit of safety, she runs into the Fost, the enemy of the E’Mani, and hey, the enemy of her enemy is her friend….right? Beta struggles with the memories from her time of capture and knows that they hold the secret as to why the E’mani want her back so bad. As she tries to regain these memories she is drawn to the handsome Marin, a Fost who seems to have a similar attraction to Beta.
This book is not in my normal wheelhouse genre but I was oddly and pleasantly surprised with this book. The characters were well rounded and sharp. Easily relatable on a personal level and with dashes of humor thrown in. A good read for a rainy day.
Must Remember: dead or alive they want her back by Colleen Myers is he first book in The Solum series. It is a unique and intriguing story that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
Beta is one of the lucky ones. She survived and was rescued by the E’mani. However their rescue comes at a high cost. That cost? The torture and experiments they subject her to for years.
Having finally escaped Beta finds herself wandering their world, without any memory of her past, trying to stay alive and out of their grasp.
To make matters worse Beta starts displaying old magic. Magic that sets her apart. It becomes imperative that Beta remembers what happened to her, or she could find herself in even more trouble.
This book had me intrigued from the start. It had so many different elements that I couldn’t wait to see how it would all come together. Beta’s part in the story was interesting and only got better to read about as the book went on. I loved reading about her as a character and the way she was portrayed. And when the Fost were introduced it just got even better for me. This book was well put together and knows how to take you, as the reader, on a journey. A great start to a new series.
Must Remember: Dead or alive, they want her back. (Solum Series Book 1) was a fast pace, edgey read that had me hooked with in seconds. I didn’t stop until the last page, and was left wanting more.
My first read by this author, I didn’t know what to expect from this sci-fi, dystopian read. The opening was crazy, and it’s what sets the stage to this dark read, cause just as much as our MC, we want answers, because to just leave the opening and jump ahead without knowing what happened, wow, my attention was grabbed and I needed to know everything.
Okay, if you follow my reviews, or if you don’t, then I’ll fill you in. I got this thing agents love-triangles. And I hate to say it, cause I loved this unique read, there is one, and for me, it was a bit of a distraction from the main plot. A plot that is outlined pretty fast, and one that doesn’t really involve the love feels you could say. I got no problems with added love in a non-romance driven plot, but to add it just for, adding it, and to follow the dreaded “tropes” and basic outline, of the “after Twilight” phase, doesn’t add to the story, it takes away. Beta spends way too much time trying to pick a lover, and that urgency surrounding her and, why she was taken in the first place, it lost.
Okay now that’s out of the way. I need to stress to you how much I love this book. Outside if the love-tri, the plot, is pretty cool, and the concept is wicketly original. I’m not going to say anymore cause I don’t want to ruin anything. But the attention to detail, the world building is, if you don’t mind the pun, out of the world. It paints such a vivid picture that you feels like you’re on a different planet, a different world. And once that mystery sourrening Bate starts to unravel, you just can’t keep your eyes off the pages.
This book is s must read, and I give it my super high recommendation and my stamp of approval. This isn’t like anything you’ve read, and it will trap you like it has me. I can’t wait to read the next book!
Happy Reading
-E.A. Walsh