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Resurrected (Resurrected Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by S.M. Schmitz (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
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Awakened from death. Herself but no longer alone in her own body. Two lives merged into one.

A mistake. An aberration. A miracle.

And a company that wants her dead because she exists.

When Dietrich’s fiancée, Lottie, is killed in a car accident, he descends into his own personal Hell until he runs into her in a café two years later. Claiming she isn’t really Lottie but only possesses some of her memories, the young woman offers him an unbelievable story then disappears.

Using his position as a CIA agent to track her down, Dietrich quickly discovers Lottie remembers far more about her past life than she’d originally let on. But his attempt to learn more about the planet she comes from or the woman she is now is disrupted by a group of men from the company that transports people from their home planet to Earth when they find out about her resurrection and attempt to murder her.

Because for Lottie, something went wrong, and her existence threatens their entire business on Earth. And Dietrich’s ultimate second chance with the only woman he’s ever loved will be threatened as well.

In the first book of The Resurrected Trilogy, a sci-fi thriller romance series, Dietrich will rediscover a love that not even death could erase. But he’ll also discover just how far this company is willing to go to protect their secrets.

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"S.M. Schmitz takes you on a vivid, wild, out of this world, as we know it journey! You will experience transference of ones' self into the lives of her characters as if you were on an emotional roller coaster in another life! Through the true to life events that occur, it will leave you searching in your mind for answers that may not begin to explain the how...but as you turn that page to the Epilogue you will find yourself not caring about the answers as your heart explodes by the tears and smile for the sacrificial love that abounds against all odds!" - Reader Review

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ZSF3W6G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ; 2nd edition (June 15, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 15, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3054 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 175 ratings

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S. M. Schmitz

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S.M. Schmitz is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author and has an M.A. in modern European history. She is a former world history instructor who now writes novels filled with mythology and fantasy and, sometimes, aliens.

Her stories are infused with the same humorous sarcasm that she employed frequently in the classroom, and as a native of Louisiana, she sets many of her scenes here. Like Dietrich in Resurrected, she is convinced Louisiana has been cursed with mosquitoes much like Biblical Egypt with its locusts.

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Liza O'Connor
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 human stars + 5 invisible alien stars.
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2016
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If I had known what this book was about before I began it, I might not have read it, but fortunately I didn’t have a clue. When people die, you don’t expect them to resurrect, and we aren’t talking zombies either. We are talking about a freshly dead body being claimed.
What makes the story even more intriguing is that the wife Dietrich buried two years ago is discovered up and walking about, calling herself Charlotte, only she wears the wedding ring he gave Lottie long ago. And she seems so like Lotte, even as she insists she isn’t his wife.
Finally, she confesses, she’s an alien who bought a new life via a dead human body. (Turns out there’s a booming alien business selling freshly dead bodies for resurrection.)
And here is where the story gets really intriguing: Charlotte has retained all of Lotte’s memories and behaviors. That’s not supposed to happen. Naturally, Dietrich & Lotte start to fall in love all over again, matters don’t go easily. There are other aliens who want to kill Charlotte because she can remember the former owner of the body. So add to the unique story-line, a wonderful, if not unique, love story, plus some truely suspenseful life and death situations.
I could not put this book down. It held me captive from start to finish.
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Gary Gautier
4.0 out of 5 stars Paranormal romance with cross-genre appeal
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2015
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“Paranormal romance” is not my normal genre, so I’m not qualified to advise voracious readers of that genre. Coming at it from the outside, though, I was pleasantly surprised by Resurrected. It did build a mood of romantic melancholia, with attractive young lovers beset by obstacles, which I presume is the standard furniture of the genre, but was also nicely filled with descriptive subtlety and philosophical nuance.

Attention the detail makes things memorable from the outset, from the arrangement of freckles on Lottie’s back to the simple but haunting image of the coffin – “a smooth, blue rectangle with silver bars running along the sides” (11). The plot arc of lovers trying to thwart the blocking figures and unite is conventional enough, but the manner in which Schmitz builds suspense gives rise to philosophical observations. In a perfectly contextualized musing on the problem of evil, Dietrich opines: “It wasn’t that people tended to defer to authority as much as people have an ability to turn off this moral code they only think defines them” (188). The idea that “moralism” is “an ambiguous and fluid concept” (189), whether you agree with it or not, is an intriguing part of the novel’s dynamic. It is a tribute to how far Schmitz stretches the genre that I’m still trying to resolve whether I’m comfortable with the moral implications of some of the novel’s scenes.

Moral knots aside, the novel does well at recreating the psychological haze of one in trauma or the twists and turns and little tricks the mind plays on itself while under pressure. The characters have their own little neuroses and defensive mechanisms accumulated over years. Dietrich must revisit his habit of “judging too quickly, assuming people were so one-dimensional” (132), as well as his long-cultivated if unconscious “belief that a person had to be perfect in order to be loved” (123). Lottie’s struggle to “decide who I am” (154) might sound like a clichéd phrase from the self-help bookshelf, but Schmitz deploys it into a context that makes it much more interesting, psychologically and philosophically. As the present conflict flushes out those hidden psychological mechanisms, the symbolic value of “resurrection” acquires more and more meanings, like ripples from a pebble dropped.

This psychological realism we get through the reflections and remembrances inside of these characters makes the flashes of wit and absurd humor, which might otherwise break the double mood of romantic longing and physical threat, quite natural. From grim jests as a response to tragedy (“I don’t think Hallmark makes a card for that,” 10) to Louisiana cookouts where the protagonists are “stuffed with barbecued meats from every mammal on the planet” (201), the humor fits in effortlessly, even if some of the male bonding humor falls flat.

Overall, if you’re absolutely averse to the conventions of romance, this may not be the book for you. If you’re accustomed to other genres – “literary fiction” or “action” or “paranormal/sci fi” – and willing to give romance a try, this seems to me an excellent choice with a wide appeal.
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H D
3.0 out of 5 stars Slow start, but wow! For the rest.
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2016
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The book started out really slow for me. I understood D had lost the love of his life in a car accident, but a little too much repetition of his loss and the effect on him. Once past that the story started getting interesting. I don't want to leave any spoilers, but let's just say alien body snatchers is a hint. This book really grabbed my interest the rest of the way to the end and now I'm looking for the next book.
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Ella
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2015
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One of the best books that I have read in a very long time. There was a love story, action and a touch of fantasy. Very Stephanie Meyer: The Host but still unique. And because I loved that book this book captured my attention from the beginning. Lottie and Dietrich have the kind of love that transcends death...
Very highly recommended and I am now on to book two.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Close encounters meets Bourne legacy
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2015
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Written in the first person, intelligence officer finds his deceased fiancee in a coffee shop. Was she Lottie or was she the alien that reanimated her body. Just number one in a series of sci-fi, action thriller, romance, and where is the men in black when you need them. Adult readers due to violence and sexual content.
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R. Munson
4.0 out of 5 stars Body? Mind? Or Soul?
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2015
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Through a dark, yet sometimes humorous first person account, Resurrected explores the duality of our relationships. When we love someone, what do we actually love? Body? Mind? or both? Or is there yet a third choice? Soul? The conflict between this philosophical divide forms the basis for this clever, body-snatching account of one man's "afterlife." The main character is well-developed and believable and we feel his pain as the mystery about his "job" helps to keep the pages turning. Full of some wonderful lines, Resurrected is a good choice if you're in the mood for a scifi-thriller that will leave you questioning the nature of your own relationships.
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Chelsy
5.0 out of 5 stars Resurrected
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2015
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This book takes you on an adventure! It keeps you on your toes and moved at a good pace from the beginning! I only wish there was more but I am aware the next of the series comes out in August! Really can't wait!! It was an amazing book and I really enjoyed it!
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2.0 out of 5 stars The author spoils her own gifts
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2015
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The story line was really good but peppered throughout with the "F" word and similar... that and the sex (I guess most romance novels include it??) were not only unnecessary to the story but took away from it. Build on your talent Ms.Schmitz instead of 'decorating' it with the cheap - because you do have talent.
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Melissa
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2016
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Good book looking forward to reading the next book in the series
Would recommend if you like abit of a twist
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