“Brimming with intrigue, heartbreak, romance (times four), and all the hot I have come to expect from Siobhan’s alien worlds.” Jaymin Eve, USA Today bestselling author of the Curse of the Gods series.They came from another world to protect her. Now it’s her destiny to save them… Tori King is a normal senior in high school. Head over heels in love with her childhood sweetheart, she is busy making … heels in love with her childhood sweetheart, she is busy making plans for college when a chance encounter with an alien bounty hunter turns her world upside down. Now, she’s experiencing terrifying changes and developing supernatural abilities that leave her questioning her entire existence.
Then the arrival of four hot new guys at school has everyone talking—especially when they become fixated on Tori, following her wherever she goes. She can’t shake them off, and as they grow closer, she finds herself drawn to all four of them in ways she cannot explain.
When they finally reveal their true identity, and why they’re here for her, she discovers everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie.
Because there is nothing normal about Tori King.
And she’s about to discover exactly how underrated normal is.
From a USA Today bestselling author comes a captivating new alien reverse harem series that is intended for readers aged seventeen and older. This is upper YA/NA crossover which gets steamier as the series develops. This book ends with a cliffhanger and cannot be read as a standalone. 110,000-word full-length novel.
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Loved the premise for The Lost Savior, and the writing is great. It was a little slow in the beginning, but I really ended up liking it. Since this book is the first book, it needed to deal with getting the story set-up, so I’m really excited to see where this series goes in the next book. I don’t read reverse harem books, which are books that have 1 girl with multiple guys because it sort of limits the connection from me, but Siobhan Davis is one of my favorite authors, so I wanted to give it a chance. The thing I thought I’d enjoy about the whole reverse harem thing, was that all these guys would be devoted to the one girl. I was a bit disappointed that this book doesn’t quite have that, but I see room for growth with that issue. This is on the YA side of things, so the romance is fairly tame, but does come into play at times. Overall, I liked the reverse harem aspect, and it was great to get a couple chapters of POV from the guys. Tori is a small town teenage girl, who is pretty content with her life, but there’s things she doesn’t know about herself that could change everything. When 4 hot guys appear in town, she feels a deep connection with all of the guys. She doesn’t understand the connection, and it’s making her relationship with her long time boyfriend very difficult. There also seems to be some weird individuals out to harm her, so she needs to figure out what is going on fast. I love the Sci-Fi elements to this story, and there is some cool action scenes. Love stories with hot aliens! I would’ve liked less time spent at the school, and less time spent on the drama with some of her friends. That’s why I enjoyed the 2nd half this book more than the first, more time is spent on Tori figuring stuff out with the guys. I liked all the guys, and I felt really bad for Jensen. I’m not completely sold on Tori yet, but I liked her enough. There’s lots of interesting elements in this story, and I’m excited to see where it goes. I’m hoping the story changes settings, and I’m hoping that a deeper connection is built with the characters. Overall, I really enjoyed this story, and there’s so many great things about this story. This story is really shaping up to be something very intriguing!
The Last Savior is not my typical book genre. I don’t particularly care for “reverse harem” stories. I find the girls are always unrealistically attractive and self centered and the guys are bumbling idiots only looking at an attactive face/body. Thus, I was reluctant to read and review my ARC of this book. But, I have been a huge Siobhan Davis fan since her first book True Calling and was willing to give it a chance. While Siobhan may classify this as reverse harem, I actually considered it to be young adult science fiction and very similar to her Saven series.
The main character, Tori, is a 17 year old farm girl whose world suddenly thrown into upheaval by the interaction with a strange man and the arrival for 4 new guys to the school. Tori desperately loves her boyfriend, Jensen and can never imagine herself with anyone else, but for some reason she feels a strong connect and pull with the four guys. Meanwhile, Tori’s abilities suddenly change – she can run incredibly fast, hear other people’s voices in her head, and predict the future.
Unlike other reverse harem books, there is a reason why the four guys and Tori are strongly linked. Tori’s abilities develop and grow in their presence and they need her to complete their tasks. While the characters backstory is unusual the connection better the guys and Tori is understandable.
They aren’t “in love” with Tori because she is the most beautiful woman in the world but because it is part of their inherent characteristics. As such, all of the guys Maddox, Dane, Cooper, and Beck and likeable. I even felt strong empathy for Tori’s boyfriend, Jensen, who was watching the woman he loved change.
I really loved this book. It had a similar tone to Siobhan’s Saven series. As a said before, it is really young adult science fiction. The book is suitable for teens. The story line is very interesting and I am very eager for the second book.
I wanted to love this one so much, and yet I fear I’m going to be in the minority with my views towards this one. On the surface, this is another great read from Siobhan Davis; however, there were so many little things I couldn’t quite bring myself to enjoy and this lessened my enjoyment. In all honesty, I would label this more of a three-point-five-star read, rather than the three-stars I gave it – but despite there being moments where four-stars were deserving, I couldn’t quite bring myself to round up.
In truth, I was somewhat tentative about this one from the moment I heard it was a reverse harem book. Reverse harem books really aren’t my cup of tea, if I’m completely honest. Despite this, I was excited for a new Siobhan Davis science-fiction read. The Saven series is the reason I fell in love with Siobhan’s work, and since then I’ve been following her author journey into new genres. I was nervous about her journey into contemporary romance, but I loved it. I was unsure about some elements in her standalone novel, Inseparable, but it won me over. Thus, I was hoping The Lost Savior would win me over – despite loving the work Siobhan has been releasing, I was craving a fill of her science-fiction and was willing to take the leap into reverse harem in the hope I would be convinced it is the kind of thing for me.
I’m sure the following may be a bit disjointed, and I apologise for that. I want to express my feelings towards this book without sounding like I hated it. I know many consider a three-star rating a bad rating, but I do not. It means I wasn’t crazy about the books, but there were elements I enjoyed. It also means I’m interested in what comes next in the series, and have hopes I could fall in love at a later date.
Because, you see, I believe there is so much potential with this one. The science fiction element promises to be really interesting – and, in all honesty, it was my favourite part of the story. There is enough world building in this one for us to have a general understanding of the bigger picture, but there is still plenty for us to find out. Based upon all the twists Siobhan Davis threw into her Saven series, I’m sure the future of the science-fiction element will continue to bloom throughout the series. There were plenty of aspects introduced, and certain ones I’m extremely interested in finding out more about. One of the things I had always wanted more of from the Saven series was a deeper look into the alien life forms, and I feel as though we may get that with this one. Already a handful of different species have been mention, and I have hopes we will be introduced to a lot more.
I’m actually crossing my fingers that this series will move us more into the science-fiction realm now that the world has been opened up. I know Siobhan Davis does not write hard science-fiction, but heading off into space and seeing the different worlds as we did in the Saven series is fine by me. I can accept soft science-fiction when done right, and Siobhan Davis does it right through creating many wonderful alien societies that grip the readers. So, yeah, my fingers are crossed that we do start the big journey in book two.
I feel as though that is where most of the potential sits for me, as a lot of the elements in the rest of the book were things I’m not so crazy about. I feel as though I was just unfortunate with this one, with many of the young adult tropes I’m not crazy about being included in one book. I can take one or two at a time, but it just felt like too many appeared in this one.
In truth, most of it can be dwindled down to a single label – high school drama. I’m so over that, have been for a while. I accepted it within the early Kennedy Boys books because it was so well mixed in with other elements of the story – it was prevalent, but we were not buried under it. In Inseparable, it was my least favourite part of the story – it is what left me worried I would not be enjoying Inseparable in the way I had been hoping for. In this one… it was all just a bit much for me. I know a lot of people enjoy high school drama stories, but I had far too much of that in my real life that I no longer want to look back at it. Hell, now that I’ve reached the point of post-graduate level education there are times where I find myself shaking my heads at books detailing the events of undergraduate living. Not to the same degree as I do with high school drama in stories, but still… I find myself to be the type to put sections of my life behind me once they are over and done with, and as high school was a very bad time for me I’m more inclined to step away from stories intent on reminding me of a past I’d rather forget. With this story, so many of the elements play back to what happens within the school setting, and I found myself wanting it over and done with.
In fact, I feel as though a lot of my dislike with the book stems from it taking place predominantly within the school environment. Those select scenes I considered four-stars all occurred well away from the school building and the associated drama. It’s just my personal preference.
Speaking of personal preference, we have my reverse harem issue. I tried, I really did, but I wasn’t won over. I felt like it was trying too hard in a way. Each boy was different, yet I felt as though they all fell into a different cliché box. Hell, even their names were cliched romance novel names. I prefer it when I can fall in love with just one male lead, and yet I didn’t really care for any of them. If asked to name my favourite I wouldn’t be able to – not because I liked them all, but because I was indifferent. It made for some rather predictable interactions throughout the story once we knew which cliché role went with which cliché name. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate them. I know many will have their favourites. I just felt like it was a bit too much. I have only read a couple of reverse harem books where the abundance of manliness felt smooth, and this wasn’t one I felt overly happy with. They played well off each other, I really enjoyed the science-fiction elements linked to the reverse harem element, but I didn’t much care for any of them.
I know I sound overly negative, but I think it’s just a reflection of how I was so hyped for this one and my worst fears were confirmed – not even Siobhan Davis, with her history of winning me over, has managed to win me over to reverse harem. There was enjoyment to be had, but this one didn’t blow my mind in the way Siobhan Davis has been known to do in the past.
Despite how this wasn’t a book that drove me wild, I will be giving book two a read. I’m interested in where the story is heading next, and I’m hoping the deeper we get into the story the more likely I will be to enjoy it. As I have already mentioned, there is potential for great things within the science-fiction element of the story and I’m hoping these great things will overshadow how this isn’t the kind of romance I usually enjoy.
‘She collapses against me, and I scoop her up, cradling her to my chest. The profound sense of contentment I’d felt the closer we got to Eaton Lake is no match for how it feels to finally share the same air space as her, to finally hold her in my arms.’ – Cooper
Siobhan Davis is one of my favourite authors and I was excited to read this first book in her new Alinthia series. Whilst I haven’t read many RH (reverse harem) books, I knew I was guaranteed a great read as Siobhan Davis, in my opinion, never fails to deliver. RH isn’t a genre that Siobhan Davis has covered before but I feel she has given readers a book, and series, that will have them hooked and introduces them to characters who they will fall in love with. As with her Kennedy Boys series, you are spoilt for choice about which male character becomes your favourite, as this time you get to choose from four captivating, but very different, guys – Cooper, Dane, Maddox and Beckett.
We’re also introduced to Jensen who is Tori’s boyfriend at the start of the book but whilst I liked him at the beginning, I found myself disliking him as he lets his jealousy overtake. Despite Tori breaking up with Jensen, I get the feeling we haven’t seen the last of him and that he’s going to cause problems for Tori and the four guys. As for Cooper, Dane, Maddox and Beckett, I still haven’t quite decided who my favourite is and I’m excited to get to know them better in the next book.
I know RH isn’t for everyone and some readers will pick up The Lost Savior purely because it’s by one of their favourite authors and they’ve enjoyed her other books. If this is the case, then I urge you to go into it with an open mind and know that whilst you experience some of the usual feelings you get from one of Siobhan Davis’ books, you’re also going to experience some you haven’t felt before. If you’re new to Siobhan Davis and are unsure if to download this book, then I advise you to download the book, read it and make up your own mind. For me, I absolutely love this new series and I can’t wait to see what Siobhan Davis gives us next.
“I think that’s good, because it’s important to know who you are, deep down inside, but don’t forget the old Tori either. No matter what happens from now on, where you’ve come from, and the person you are used to being, is still an important part of your makeup, and you shouldn’t ever lose sight of that.” – Kylie
great read, but cliff hanger. forces you to buy the next in the series.
As far as most the reverse harem books I’ve read, this one is definitely near the top of the pile, but there were so many tropes and some things REALLY caught my attention.
Davis does a great job of writing a compelling story, but she falls into a trap of her own making every now and then. There are tropes (hidden alien who needs to be awakened to know her own powers) that Davis makes her own with an awesome story line. However, then she seems to take well-known plot points (Superman, Star Wars) and leaves them as she finds them, which made me frustrated and annoyed. She could have eliminated this irritation by simply taking the idea and making it her own instead of simply co-opting it for ease of furthering the story.
The maturity level of the MC bothers me. She seems REALLY young and sheltered. She definitely does not mature enough for anything other than dating a football player until the end of 1st semester in college when she realizes that what she thought was forever-love isn’t because he’s banging a sorority girl on the side. There seems to be a character shift early in the book where a maturity level that was apparent emerges, redeeming her.
This is another story where the MC gets insta-knowledge and skills. The one thing saving this from being an eyeroll and DNF is the explanation (or implied explanation) and the fact that MC is also confused by her new skills. Instead of the regular trope where the MC is excited and thinks she’s super awesome, she’s reluctant to use her skills and is seriously upset and confused by this knowledge that she has but doesn’t understand. Her being a ‘sleeper’ and ‘waking up’ fits nicely with the story and allows for this instant acquisition of skills without being extremely trite.
This story includes two of my least favorite plot lines: prophecy/hidden princess. *sigh* Also, fated mates *double sigh* Despite all the tired tropes being thrown at me left and right, I did enjoy the story. It’s well-written and engaging, with just enough uncertainty about what’s going to happen at the end of each chapter to keep you going. The pacing is on-point and accelerates and decelerates smoothly, leaving you feeling as if this is a cohesive event. There is a bit of a lull in the book right around the half-way point that makes it difficult to continue, but after pushing through the pacing evens back out and keeps going.
For some reason, I really enjoyed the teenage angst in this book. However, the boyfriend? So much wrong with her continued acceptance of “fault” and “guilt” for his controlling behavior. It might be my own personal issues, but this REALLY bugged me. I’m all for owning up to your mistakes, but the boyfriend’s behavior was way out of line and it bugged me that this was never addressed–not even by the harem.
There were a few places where a content/line editor could have been helpful—disconnect in actions or things (where’d the prom dress go?) Things just disappear or suddenly change position without any narrative to explain it, like her magically disappearing shirt. It’s all small stuff that is easily ignored and moved past, but it’s still a bit bothersome.
The sex scenes are mild, but not quite ‘fade to black’. Given the characters are only 17, I think this is something that the reader should be aware of. When I read it, I assumed that with the characters’ ages, it was young adult, and as such there would be no explicit sex scenes. It’s listed as YA in the Kindle store, so I’m not sure how that first sex scene got through, but I would definitely put this on a mature young adult list.
All-in-all this is a decent story. Davis makes use of typical tropes and actually makes it so that they’re not terrible (dare I even say enjoyable) to read. However, there were a few areas where improvement could definitely be had.
This is such an amazing new book which I’m waiting patiently for the next book in the series. I’ve realized that reverse harem books are increasingly becoming the new thing, and add the paranormal aspect, you’ve got a great book!
Davis creates an interesting world in this story. Overall, I liked the story. It was interesting and I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. Tori at times annoyed me with her back and forth, and I did think that one of her guys was a little too pushy. I am interested to see what happens next, so will be looking for book 2 when it comes out in March.
I loved the book! It kept my attention as Tori meets the guys and comes into her her powers and realizes that she is not as normal as she originally thought. I’ve read a lot of alien romance books where the girl finds out she’s more than human and there were surprises I haven’t seen before throughout Tori’s journey as she learns more about herself.
I also liked how the guys were introduced and developed. I’m really interested in learning how the romance between Tori and the guys will unfold.
I was not expecting the cliffhanger at the end. I really want to know what will happen next and am excited to know how that idea is incorporated into the Secret Heir, the next book in the series.
Overall I loved the book and can’t wait to read the next book in the series. I’m sure the next will be full of twists like this one!
I voluntarily reviewed a complementary copy of this book.
What can I say about this book without giving any spoilers? Well I can definitely say that the story of Tori and the guys is freaking AWESOME. I loved how Siobhan Davis slowly builds the story up before coming to the explosive climax! Then she slowly starts building it up again but then unfortunately she takes a turn and leaves you hanging with a cliffhanger! Not cool!! But you know it just makes you look forward to the next book. Because I most definitely can’t wait until the next book because I gotta know what happens to Tori and the gang.
I wish I was able to give more than five measly stars because this book most definitely deserves a whole lot more. So I highly recommend you read The Lost Savior but first make sure you strap yourself into your chair because you are going on a crazy whirlwind of a awesome ride!
All I have to say is YAY another sci-fi book by this author and she has done it in one of my favorite sub-genre…. reverse harem (RH)!! While RH is not for everyone those that like the genre will enjoy this slow burn in it. The world building, as always is strong, just like the character driven characters by this author. I love how this author does all the setting up in the first book so we can have a strong setting for the books we know are to come! I can not wait for the next book in this series, I just know it is going to be one of my favorite this year!
A captivating read!
They came from another world to protect her…
Now it’s her destiny to save them…
Right from the start, it is full of action, intrigue and mystery. So engrossing! I did not, not even for a moment, want to leave the book – I needed to know what will happen next and I needed all my questions answered. I just wanted to stay lost in that world forever. That is how marvelous it is. So brilliantly written and entertaining.
One thing I know for sure: I did not want this beauty of a novel to end, especially since it is reverse harem! Great world building, stunning characters and a scorching hot connection with the men. The emotion in this book will blow you away – far, far away. Be prepared for it.
The author knows how to write a story from start to end that will never let you attention strain from it, not even for a second. The story hooks you and pulls you in, making you become addicted to it!
Full of mystery, aliens, powers, tension, secrets, emotion, connections, decisions and romance.
Perfect for readers of reverse harem paranormal romances/sci-fi romances.
Tori is a young woman in her final year of high school with her entire future planned out… Or so she thinks. When four new guys show up, all bets are off.
This book was wonderfully written. The characters and their story will not fail to reel you in… you won’t want to put this story down!
If I hadn’t had Show Choir competitions all weekend, I think I would have finished this in a day! That’s how good it was, almost impossible to put down. I just had to know what was going on and what would end up happening.
I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy a reverse harem style book, I wasn’t even really sure what a reverse harem was and had to look it up. This story is written so powerfully though, and I found myself enthralled with the universe that’s been created and the idea of such a strong and powerful bond between 5 people.
The characters are written with depth and history and you come to feel like you truly know them, like they’re your friends or you’re enemies instead of just characters in a book. I cried with Tori, laughed with Cooper, and was curious with Kylie. There were a few characters I just didn’t like, but that was the minority and of course, you need characters that you don’t really like for a full story to evolve. Everything can’t be all happiness and people getting along or there’s no book there.
I’m very interested in reading the next book and seeing how Tori progresses with her powers now that she knows who she is. I’m also very curious about the vision she had and if it’s prophetic or just a bad dream type of thing. I’m eager to see if the bond continues to grow and if certain members of it can be won over and if their personalities change at all due to it. Also, Jensen…what’s going to happen there because I feel like his part in the story is not over yet. Much is left to develop with this series and I’m pretty excited to see what’s coming next.
*I voluntarily reviewed an advanced copy of this book.*