The Aliomenti Saga Box Set

The Aliomenti Saga #1-3

by Alex Albrinck

A sprawling blend of science fiction, high technology, and fantasy, The Aliomenti Saga traces the rise and proliferation of a secret group of supernaturally gifted men and women through the life of their most dynamic member, Will Stark. A QUESTION OF WILL (Book 1) Will Stark is a phenomenally successful businessman, happily married, with a young son he adores. When he arrives home on his 35th birthday, he finds the guards to his gated community murdered, his home ablaze with his family inside, and his life nearly ended by those responsible. Will is immersed in the culture of the Alliance, a splinter group of the Aliomenti. He'll learn their secrets... and more about himself and his destiny than he ever imagined possible. PRESERVING HOPE (Book 2) Will meets a young girl named Elizabeth Lowell, resident of a hidden village, daughter of the leader of that village, and one forced against her will to bear the burden of learning the secrets the villagers seek to learn. Elizabeth has secrets of her own, though, and Will must ensure that the revelation of those secrets doesn't result in the girl's death... as it did for her mother. ASCENT OF THE ALIOMENTI (Book 3) Drawing upon his business and life experiences, Will transforms the Aliomenti into a global financial powerhouse awash in technological advances that would astound their human peers. But when power and wealth turn to paranoia, Will must decide if the group can be saved--or if the actions of the Leader of the Aliomenti mean a permanent separation is inevitable.

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Ebooks, Fiction, Amazon, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

979 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 17, 2013

About the author

I am a lifelong Ohio resident, where I live with my wife and three children. When I'm not trying to be in three places at once with my active youngsters, I'm following local professional and collegiate sports teams, or possibly unscrambling a Rubik's Cube. In lieu of sleep, I read and write fiction.

My debut novel, A QUESTION OF WILL, explores themes of technological advancement, human potential (good and bad), and the love bonding a family together. It reached the Amazon Top 100 in Science Fiction -> High Tech less than a week after publication. The sequels--PRESERVING HOPE, ASCENT OF THE ALIOMENTI, and BIRTH OF THE ALLIANCE--continue to follow Will's adventures, bringing to life the technological and Energy advances he's achieved in entirely new settings.

I am currently drafting the fifth of seven novels in the series.

Reviews

[Rud · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought the first part of this 3 book set was interesting. It dealt with the possibly innate abilities of the human being. In that context, I am willing to suspend belief and buy into almost any talents.

However, as the series progressed, it began to get into technology that I just couldn't buy in to. Our hero desalinated sea water by passing through a simple sand filter? He develops a submarine that "burns salt" as its fuel?

I could even buy into a time travel. That's a common fantasy we all should accept in science fiction. But burning NaCl ? Filtering salt from seawater using sand?

So when the series got into things that aren't just fanciful, but are just ridiculous, I had to stop, and put it away. I won't be pursuing the rest of the series.

[Mary Burke · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought the premise was intriguing and was drawn in right away. Although, at times, the writing felt adolescent, it was generally well written. Book one was good, with a few twists that I did not see coming.
However, it fell apart from there. There was a lot of repetition. When writing sequels it is necessary to provide a synopsis of the story so far, but I am referring to the repetition of facts presented 2 or 3 pages earlier. This happens multiple times. Books 2 and 3 are OK if you are interested in the engineering of water wheels and submarines, but way too much time was devoted to the intricate details of these and other projects. The 2 books provided necessary back story, but there was little to move the plot forward and very little story or character development other than what we already knew. This could have been done in a few chapters, not 2 full books.
I will not be reading the rest of the series. It is a bit disappointing as I do like the characters and there are a few questions that I would like answered, but not enough to keep reading.

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Will Stark is a successful entrepreneur in the 21st century who gets thrown into a fantastical adventure when his wife and son are attacked, his house is set on fire, and then he gets accosted and beaten by mysterious men who think he's some high-falutin' mastermind of some whole faction of a weird cult that punishes you for getting married to a human and wants to kill you for having children.

I'm down with the story. Science fiction, nanotechnology, time travel. Five stars for that.

[H · Rating 1 out of 5]

You may enjoy the first book if you have an attention span of 10 pages or so and need to be constantly reminded of what you've already read. You may enjoy this series if you like two-dimensional characters who seemingly have the ability to precisely divine the intentions of everyone else, no matter how nonsensical their motivations may be. And you may enjoy the later books if you've done as little research on medieval England as the author has (go ahead and take a look at some manuscripts in Old English from the early 11th century and tell me how easy a time Will would have had teaching his new friends how to write, or communicating with them at all). I'm glad I got this set for free and I won't be reading any of the rest of the books.

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[Amber M. McCarter · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tediously written. This could have been a great story, but the writing is so painfully terrible that I only finished this set because... well, because I had them. And I started it. So I finished it. I declined to read any more beyond these, even though I had already invested three books' worth of my attention, because I couldn't bare the thought of wading through another sentence. The plot is very intriguing, but the author TELLS you EVERYTHING. Nothing is left to inference or imagination - every single thought, emotion, intention, natural consequence is boringly laid out even within contexts that leave it absolutely unnecessary... even foreshadowing is spoiled by setting it up, only to then immediately tell you what will come later. If it wasn't so clearly just insecure writing, it would have felt insulting. But it definitely made it intolerable to continue. Disappointing. The story itself had great potential.

[Linda CAruthers · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great start but stalls out

This book started with an interesting premise. Book one was almost all foundation material but a decent read. Book two moved the story line along at a great pace. Then came book three. It sank like a stone. The book goes into much boring detail about builds with out needing to. I ended up scanning through pages looking for action, reading the new info then scanning another 20 pages. After book two i was sure I would want to buy the whole series. Now, I won't.

[Ron E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome books!

This story will keep your attention from start to finish. I am not sure that I would be able to be as strong as Will & Hope had to be.

[Arnaud · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was all right, but lengthy at times

[Robert Humphrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read but needs a tech edit, too much redundancy

This is a great read!

However chapters tend to repeat things from previous chapters. Also I kept having to go back to reread things that had happened in previous 1 or 2 pages because the same thing that had already happened was happening again but with a different outcome. (for example: Adam returns to village and finds out two of the women he wants to see are dead, then he walks out with Will and Will tells him that they are not dead because he had saved them but nobody else in the village knows, they all think they are dead. Then Adam reenters the village, angry at everyone for killing the women, and 2 pages later Adam is so angry over their deaths that he burns the village to the ground killing everyone in it. I am still confused... if Will told Adam they are still alive then why does Adam kill everyone over their deaths?

Another example is when fighting breaks out and Will escapes. Then he returns many years later to find everything still happening as it was when he left. It's as though he had just been gone for five minutes.

There a lot of other things like this example where things happen then don't seem to have happened. Needs to be clear what did or didn't happen then don't change it.

[Scott Sammons · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plodding and predictable, needs real reconstruction to be even very good.

The super powerful characters in this book lack depth, the villainous secret society is found wanting in plausibility, the poor research or no research on historical secret societies, technological innovations and lost civilizations, prevents suspension of disbelief. This probably should be a two star review, but the actual writing is not awful, some of the dialogues flow nicely, and I may have read more of the series but for the high price of the later books.

[Chandra Clines · Rating 3 out of 5]

So part one was amazing seriously five stars one of the best books ever. Part two was good but slowed down a bit a solid four stars. But part three was terrible. I only finished out of a sense of loyalty for part One. Why would anyone want to read pages describing construction projects and brainstorming???? It was soooooooo bad.

[Sonia Knippshild · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good series

[Jon Grafton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, this was a fantastic trilogy. I almost exclusively read indie sci-fi author's free offerings, and sadly, most of them I put down in the first 30 pages due to poor writing. That is most certainly not the case with the Aliomenti Saga. These books center around a group of powered people, channeling energy to do everything from set things spontaneously aflame, to teleportation, telepathy and to other vast powers - like flight and outer body experiences. The protagonist is an amnesiac, and without ruining the plot, he must travel back in time... like 1,000 years back in time, to protect his wife and children from getting murdered in the future. The book is clearly drawn along "good" and "bad" lines - which is the case for most books. Our protagonist is the most powerful energy practitioner of all, a Luke Skywalker type character who is of course on the good, or Alliance, side of things. The author adds a nice undercurrent of tension to the tale by forcing him to save and protect those he knows will grow to be evil in the future. He is an excellent, and morally steadfast character, and I appreciated that. Good is good. Bad is bad. I would give this series 5 stars for writing and world building, but give it 4 only because of the sometimes odiously long descriptions of his dialogue - both internal and with other characters - about improving 11th century British technology. You see, he is from the 2030's - and he knows some things, like how to create plumbing and harness natural energy via windmills, etc. I found the flow parts of the book to be those where the author goes on for pages describing the details of how such technology might be built, it's hypothetical sociological implications, etc. That said, the tension of the writing comes from the fact that the protagonist often DOESN'T use his powers when he could, for he is bound by factual future events and morality and his endless sense of guilt. Nonetheless, we get plenty of action and fun, and the pages keep turning. I'd recommend this novel to any sci-fi fan out there. Great, great series!

[AF Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay, I am going to just say it like I found it - book one was interesting and at times interesting and intense.
By the end of book one, I was really glad there was a book 2 to go to. Hang me now, but that was fairly boring. It lacked the interest, intensity and story movement that was evident in book one. By book 3- well, I couldn’t wait to get through it and get it over with. I know there are a host of other volumes to come, but I have no intention or interest whatsoever in reading more.

The characters were rather flat and predictable..The story line reads like it was cranked out on a Hurdy Gurdy by the dancing monkey.

No doubt, Alex Albrinck put his heart and soul into this world. It did a genius premise to be sure. But he couldn’t make it fly and make me suspend my belief system. I usually have no problem at all letting it go for a while as I fall eyes first into a book.

If this author were a baker, his dough would look good. It might have risen a bit before punching it down to rise again-but once in the pan and into the oven- not enough life in the yeast to make a great loaf.

There was so much repetition of thoughts and ideas. In fact, it was really annoying to go from one chapter to the next and have a recap of the chapter prior before getting into the new chapter.

Then there were chapters so caught up in the minutiae of engineering that it actually put me to sleep. B O R I N G!!

Concept 5 stars. Execution 2 stars.

[Robin Cappello · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really Good! Made Me Think!

I have to admit that I liked this boxed set; it made me think. I considered the potential accuracy of the information given how people are today. I considered the lack of everyday conveniences that we're all SO used to & how that would impact a budding society. I considered how deeply greed can & will warp a person/a town especially when it's manipulated by a hateful, power-hungry sneak.And then I considered how irritating it is to have the storyline continued in an entirely different set of books that I don't have!! HOW DOES IT END? Guess I'll just have to get the rest of the series and find out! :)
The set looks at how humanity might handle it if we were able to, through eating a few naturally occurring plants/fruits, develop "enhanced" abilities . How would you handle having telepathy, extra-sensitive empathy, being able to move objects using telekinesis, being clairvoyant or being able to teleport yourself almost anywhere you wanted to go? Now how would you handle it if your neighbor could do the same thing, maybe even better than you can? What if you had forever to master those skills and any others you wanted to try your hand at?
Some people are basically good; some people are basically .... not good. The books explore both sides and I found them to be a really good read!

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall I liked the books. Until the 3rd book I felt the characters and the story progressed nicely. Most of the elements were reasonably developed and believable. I was disappointed in the last book because I felt that the plot line bogged down in descriptions of processes not really necessary to the plot. I almost felt the author was inserting "filler" to stretch out the story. And worse the details really did not explain what was going on. The biggest example is the extensive space devoted to cement construction without out any development on how they procured the raw materials. Most of the things up to that point were logical expansions of the plot. I am now in the 4th book and will decide if I finish the series. There are loose ends in the story line I would like to see tied up and I think the author will do so. If I hit another streak of an unnecessary tangent I think I will quit. The actual plot line is well developed and has some great elements. The dynamics of an immortal relationship between Will and Hope has been a great subplot.

[Rosemary Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

#1 A Question of Will

So, where do I begin to explain the complex and yet understandable unique story.
One guy, Will Stark, had been part of an organization, The Aliomenti, that had discovered a way to live healthier and in consequence added power to the individual. The organization didn't want to share these discoveries, so that's where Will Stark bid farewell, and started another organised group called The Alliance. Off course group A hunted group B, and that's what was still happening 1200 years later.

#2 Preserving Hope

I must admit this story was confusing, that Will was sent back to the 11th century England, to rescue a young girl, that he would marry in the 22nd Century.
The overall tale in compelling, and it has the various effects of anger, astonishment and credulity.
It's a story of human nature, and although a tale of fiction, the world has seen what neighbors can do to one another, in Nazi Germany, for example.

#3 Ascent of the Aliomenti

The two women have escaped, both believed dead. Adam had taken care of the community, leaving only Will and Arthur.
Will had to leave, his disgust for both men difficult to hide, and yet he knew he had 12 centuries to ensure both stayed alive, to meet in the 22nd Century.
Life was about to get all about finding something to ensure that the years didn't take their toll on his mental health.
Luckily, during their wanderings, the ladies and Will had an interesting find, that at least lengthened their lifetimes.

[Bob Brennan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book set was free on Amazon, so I tend to review from that perspective. In the end, it does indeed get clunky, with the main character having beyond god-like powers and then having to go thru almost ridiculous plots twists to get back to the pre-ordained history.
But somehow, I still found it compelling and interesting reading. Somewhere in there, there is a good plot and some great characters and original ideas. Perhaps dragging it out into so many books (as seems to be the norm in the last few decades) forces the author to dwell on insignificant details and certainly avoids them have to prune down to a tight compelling narrative.
Good luck Alex, I hope you do well and tighten your writing up, avoid making Superman, then having to constantly come up with new kryptonite to fight him. I would be pleased to read such output from you:)

[Debi Donnelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read and directions on survival

I really became involved in the plight of Will Stark as he moves from one challenge to another and from one time to another. However, the constant processes of building and it's details, even though interesting, interfered with the flow of ongoing story lines. I would have liked to hear more about Hope and her trials rather than learn step by step how to make a town out of cement. I am anxious to learn more about their relationships in the future. I think more insights into the other characters and their motives might have kept the story going more smoothly and allowed us, readers, to see more clearly they all played vital roles in this couple's lives. I would recommend this book to detail-oriented persons and persons who enjoy a good long read like I do. It's an intriguing peak at history.

[MystiqueLaLynx · Rating 2 out of 5]

I originally read this box set in 2015, got it free from book bub, I tried to reread it in 2023 because I don't remember any of the story now. Back in 2015 I'd read 67% so that made it to book 3 ch 3 pg 4 of the chapter.
So I had started book 1 as apparently I also have all 3 books separately... I noticed that the 1st 4 ch have the same story repeatedly from different POV.. it felt like I had short term memory loss and someone felt the need to keep telling me all the details of the same story over and over adding one or two more details each repetition... sigh NO I'm not enjoying that way of story telling..
So I went to the reviews... and yes the 1 to 3 star reviews helped me to remember the story and why I'd quit reading the series back in 2015..

[Sumanda Maritz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, just WOW!

I got this as a free ebook download of the first three books in a series. And then you think to yourself, well obviously the author isn’t very sure of his brainchild if he offers the first 3 books for free. Let me tell you something, this author is so sure that you will want to read everything he has written that he can give away the first 3 books in his series free, because at the end he knows that you will never walk away from what happens to Will and Hope.
I have to know what happens next, so I’m off to buy the next book in this series.
If you like SF and Fantasy I can guarantee that you will enjoy this.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like time travel stories, especially when the characters themselves aren't aware of it. This was not what I expected from the start, but the story was handled well, especially when characters were forced to go against their own instincts to preserve the timeline. It makes for very thought provoking reading. Books that make one think should be on everyone's reading list. This book won't appeal to everyone, but if you like time stories, and tails that make characters examine their stance on life issues, you might enjoy this one.

[Musings of a Middle-aged Mum · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was talking to a friend yesterday about what books I have read recently that I couldn't put down. Instantly my mind came to The Aliomenti Saga by Alex Albrinck, Author.
It is described on Amazon as "A sprawling blend of science fiction, high technology, and fantasy, The Aliomenti Saga traces the rise and proliferation of a secret group of supernaturally gifted men and women through the life of their most dynamic member, Will Stark." and is full of twists and turns that kept you engaged throughout the whole series.
It's a page-turner from the very start.

[Rob F · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Aliomenti Saga has some good world building ideas. I would have found the series much more involving if the author had resisted the temptation to keep telling us the same information over, and over, and over again. Yes, I know Arthur is a bad person. Yes, I know Will misses his wife. By the third book in the series I was skipping multiple pages of repeated information/filler just to move along to the next implausible thing Will would invent.

Overall, I felt this to be a missed opportunity. Fewer words would have made a better story.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good storyline good author worth reading

I would have given a solid 5 stars for book 1 which was superb, great story and unlike some authors who seem to rush the ending maybe to make a deadline from their publisher, the story was fully fleshed out to the end. Book 2 was a 5- but also good. Book3 had too much "invention" that didn't really add to the story and is the only reason a rating of 4 not 5 for the series. That said, even the last book had a good general story and a satisfying ending. Well worth reading

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the characters and their interactions. They are so full of surprises. The second book slowed down a bit but it was interesting to see where some of the enemies and friends came from. The building of the water wheel was too detailed for my liking. It really slowed down the momentum. In book 3 it picks up. Fortunately, the other water thing wasn't so detailed, but it is fascinating its development. Those centuries can go on forever, but I think I would like to find out the rest of the story.

[MariaR Meli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good story about past/futuristic story;kept me wanting to finish to get to next story! I applaud the writer & the ability to come to a story of this depth, detail & thoroughness! Alex has a great imagination & has made the whole story come alive in my mind! Makes one wish to have these abilities, well, at least in books! Hope's father was a bit cruel, but every story has an antagonist!

This a very good story! And a bit magical! I just loved it! It just might become one of my annual favorite stories!

[Lyndsey Gollogly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a good read

When I first started this series I was a little confused. Is it sci fi ? Is it magic? Turns out it's a bit of. Both. I'm still a bit confused 3 books in but the series is hard to put down. Wills constant battle to save Hope and his children draws you in as well as him building up the Alominati. This book has him leaving them and sailing off with Hope I'm looking forward to reading what comes next for them both.

[Denzel Struchen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great mix

With a mixture of history, science fiction and love a story is born that last centuries. Will born in the 20 the century, gets married has a child and a successful business. All that changes when people from the past appear that claim to know him. A tale of intrigue and mystery as a modern man lands in the 11th century to save his future wife from a man of evil. You will be spellbound