River Recruit New Adult Shifter Romance Book One The Sanctuary Series 1 edition by Charlotte Abel Contemporary Romance eBooks
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River believes all outsiders are disease infested idiots and a threat to her secret society of wolf shifters. The laws that keep her people safe are absolute. No outsider can ever know of their existence. But when a handsome stranger risks his life to save River from a mountain lion, she has two choices…recruit him into her society as a servant, or kill him.
All Jonathan wanted was a few weeks of solitude, backpacking in Colorado, to help him deal with the aftermath of his service in Afghanistan. When he learns River plans to keep him with her forever, he starts planning his escape. What neither of them plan on is falling in love.
Best Selling Author introduces a 'new adult' paranormal romance.
River's Recruit Book 1 of The Sanctuary Series
River's Remorse Book 2 of The Sanctuary Series
River's Revenge Book 3 of The Sanctuary Series
Gabriel's Gift Book 4 of The Sanctuary Series
Rose's Rebel Book 4 of The Sanctuary Series
River Recruit New Adult Shifter Romance Book One The Sanctuary Series 1 edition by Charlotte Abel Contemporary Romance eBooks
4.5/5 stars(RabidReads) A strange cult that lives in the mountains of Colorado, one that has nothing to do with the outside world. But is it really a cult?That’s the premise of this more than fascinating story. Jonathan Mcknight goes on a camping trip alone and ends up meeting a beautiful woman named River, who takes him to her home due to blizzard conditions. Little does he know that now that he knows about her, he can no longer ever go home. The conditions are pretty primitive, the clothes worn by the residents resemble something out of history books, and the rituals used to keep outside germs from entering the community rigorous. In order to keep Jonathan from being executed on the spot, she tells her guardian, Reuben, that Jonathan is her recruit. Jonathan humors her and agrees that he has given up on modern life, and that he will not leave. Of course he is plotting the whole time to escape-until he finds out that River will be executed if he leaves. The council in charge of the communities-one, the elite that live inside Sanctuary Mountain, and the other, topside dwellers, that barely make a living-are very quick to execute, whip, or cut off a hand or finger for even the smallest infraction. But there’s an even bigger secret that everyone is keeping from Jonathan, the reason that they live apart from society, and it’s a paranormal one. Werewolves.This book. I literally read it non-stop and when I was done I immediately read the second one(River’s Remorse) non-stop. For two days I immersed myself in River and Jonathan’s world, and totally enjoyed the whole thing. Yes, it’s a paranormal romance at times, but it’s also a saga of sorts about a whole other secret world that exists apart from everyone else. I found the world building to be fascinating. Ms Abel has created a world that is ripe for rebellion and a prophecy that tells of an outsider that will change everything. There’s a lot of unfairness in this world, some women are turned into whores, others into servants-all against their wills. Men are allowed several wives and concubines, and women have nothing to say about it. That’s just a couple of examples, but the authors world building is rich with detail after detail about this world with nary an info dump in sight.
River and Jonathan are good characters. In the beginning when we meet Jonathan, I really didn’t like him that much. But after going away to war, he comes home a changed man, and his character as a man had grown greatly, as well. River is an innocent, but very feisty, and has grown up in a man’s world. A horrible world by anyone’s standards. When she meets Jonathan her life changes in ways she would never had imagined. Lots of good peripheral characters keep the story moving, and there’s an array of villains to be had here, as well. There’s also a lot of good people that want change. Will Jonathan be the one to bring it? And why him anyway? Or is there someone else that can do the job?
There’s plenty of action, violence, and intrigue in this book, but the heart of the story for me was River’s and Jonathan’s love story. The author knows how to write a good romantic story, and the romance itself was very sweet. Don’t expect explicit sexual details in this installment, but there is enough sexual situations talked about, and almost sexual situations happening, to keep this from being YA. Not to mention the violence described.
I highly recommend this book to adult paranormal romance fans, ones that like a complex story.
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River Recruit New Adult Shifter Romance Book One The Sanctuary Series 1 edition by Charlotte Abel Contemporary Romance eBooks Reviews
3.5 Stars
It was slow. The build up was just so slow I started to lose interest so started another book, then another book, then finally came back to this one for a little bit, then back to another book, then finally decided to stick with this to the finish. I did enjoy the story after a while, but I hated how slow it was to get somewhere. And the ending just pissed me off. Really? That is how it ends? Ok, I already knew there was going to be issues with them splitting up, but did not expect where it went. I was so on Jonathan's side on how she lived, but also on hers that things needed to change, not them run away. I did struggle with his inability to accept what she told him, but also saw his point in that she wasn't 100% forthcoming either. He gets punished for being ignorant? Totally crazy world she lived in and I got his frustration with their "cult" views. Again, the story was engaging, just move things along a little quicker please. The two had so much to offer each other, but you get lost in how much background information is shared that things just felt a little boring.
I'll read the next book because I'm too damned upset that it was left the way it was.
Abel has created a complex and unusual world-within-a-world for her shapeshifters. River is a young woman facing a great transitional period for her kind, when she finally gains the ability to "find her wolf" and change forms. Her people live in isolation in a divided society -- the elite ruling class live underground while the others (including River and her guardian) live a rough, frontierlike existence aboveground. Despite the isolated nature of their lives, recruits from the outside world can sometimes be introduced, although they are usually regarded as second-class citizens, almost like indentured servants. River decides to sponsor Jonathan, a young US Army veteran mourning the loss of his twin brother, when she meets him after he gets lost on a camping trip.
The story, at times, reads as if it is a Mormon take on paranormal romance, although it is more sexually explicit than many LDS readers would probably be comfortable with. The characters are complex and highly individualized, although their reactions sometimes don't ring true to their character and seem more designed to advance the story past a temporary stopping point. The "prophecy" element of the book did feel too familiar and convenient for my taste, but the rest of the story is so interesting I'm willing to give it a chance and see where the author is going with it. After a lot of development, this book ends with a cliffhanger, so avoid if you aren't okay with it. I'm invested enough to purchase part two -- something I almost never do with free downloads (this book was free when I downloaded it).
A very interesting take on a secretive shifter community mixed with both a society that is rather luddite, and a society that isn’t so much but has that wonderful quality of believing itself to be the be all end all of the community of a whole.
The world building was pretty amazing. The loads of rules and restrictions weren’t dumped on you. You learned them as Jonothan did. Its issues, both good and bad, were introduced and unfolded with nice timing so you didn’t get over whelmed.
I thought the author’s take on shifters was fascinating. How one becomes a shifter and the rules and traditions that govern them. I can’t recall if it was this book or the next book, but learning how the society used to be versus the perversion it has become now … it just screams *big potential for an awesome series* to me, lol.
One thing I also liked was the descriptions of the chores and way River had to live along with her family. I guess it would be classified as maybe pioneer times? Dunno!
4.5/5 stars(RabidReads) A strange cult that lives in the mountains of Colorado, one that has nothing to do with the outside world. But is it really a cult?That’s the premise of this more than fascinating story. Jonathan Mcknight goes on a camping trip alone and ends up meeting a beautiful woman named River, who takes him to her home due to blizzard conditions. Little does he know that now that he knows about her, he can no longer ever go home. The conditions are pretty primitive, the clothes worn by the residents resemble something out of history books, and the rituals used to keep outside germs from entering the community rigorous. In order to keep Jonathan from being executed on the spot, she tells her guardian, Reuben, that Jonathan is her recruit. Jonathan humors her and agrees that he has given up on modern life, and that he will not leave. Of course he is plotting the whole time to escape-until he finds out that River will be executed if he leaves. The council in charge of the communities-one, the elite that live inside Sanctuary Mountain, and the other, topside dwellers, that barely make a living-are very quick to execute, whip, or cut off a hand or finger for even the smallest infraction. But there’s an even bigger secret that everyone is keeping from Jonathan, the reason that they live apart from society, and it’s a paranormal one. Werewolves.
This book. I literally read it non-stop and when I was done I immediately read the second one(River’s Remorse) non-stop. For two days I immersed myself in River and Jonathan’s world, and totally enjoyed the whole thing. Yes, it’s a paranormal romance at times, but it’s also a saga of sorts about a whole other secret world that exists apart from everyone else. I found the world building to be fascinating. Ms Abel has created a world that is ripe for rebellion and a prophecy that tells of an outsider that will change everything. There’s a lot of unfairness in this world, some women are turned into whores, others into servants-all against their wills. Men are allowed several wives and concubines, and women have nothing to say about it. That’s just a couple of examples, but the authors world building is rich with detail after detail about this world with nary an info dump in sight.
River and Jonathan are good characters. In the beginning when we meet Jonathan, I really didn’t like him that much. But after going away to war, he comes home a changed man, and his character as a man had grown greatly, as well. River is an innocent, but very feisty, and has grown up in a man’s world. A horrible world by anyone’s standards. When she meets Jonathan her life changes in ways she would never had imagined. Lots of good peripheral characters keep the story moving, and there’s an array of villains to be had here, as well. There’s also a lot of good people that want change. Will Jonathan be the one to bring it? And why him anyway? Or is there someone else that can do the job?
There’s plenty of action, violence, and intrigue in this book, but the heart of the story for me was River’s and Jonathan’s love story. The author knows how to write a good romantic story, and the romance itself was very sweet. Don’t expect explicit sexual details in this installment, but there is enough sexual situations talked about, and almost sexual situations happening, to keep this from being YA. Not to mention the violence described.
I highly recommend this book to adult paranormal romance fans, ones that like a complex story.
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