Shallow River by H.D. Carlton

 

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🖉Rating: 4/5

🖉Spice: 2/5

🖉Plot: 5/5

🖉Primary Genre: Dark Romance

🖉Blurb: 

Shallow Hill is where souls suffer slow and miserable deaths.

When River McAllister escaped from Shallow Hill, she left her innocence behind--and some of her sanity, too. Now she's rebuilding her life with her dream man and life couldn't be better.

Ryan Fitzgerald is everything you'd want in a man. Attractive, rich, an aspiring lawyer, and would do anything to keep River. But that's not the only thing that attracts her. It's his attentiveness, his possessiveness... maybe not so much his temper.

When her relationship takes a dark turn, Ryan's estranged brother, Mako, is the only one who sees it. He knows exactly what Ryan is capable of, and it's not the first time he had to be a knight in shining armor.

River came from Shallow Hill, though. She's never needed saving before. What Mako doesn't see, is that River is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.

The only one who should be scared is Ryan.

Trigger Warning: Shallow River is a dark romance that contains domestic violence, r*pe, violence, and sexual situations.

🖉My Thoughts:

This isn't your typical H.D. Carlton fare but I found it to be exceptional. It felt similar to a Freida McFadden novel, just more sick, twisted and graphic. What I'm getting at is that this doesn't feel so much like a dark romance as it does a thriller with a romance side plot. There is a little open door smut and a lot of on page SA, so for those of you hoping for something squeaky clean, you won't be finding that here. Realistically, you won't find that with any H.D. books. There are some incredible messed up plot twists in this book that will ensure you'll want to read all of the trigger warnings before cracking this story open. Once you do, you won't be able to put it down. The plot and the twists and turns in it are just crazy, they make this book very hard to put down. Riv er is half parts endearing, half parts infuriating. This book may be difficult for anyone who has suffered from abuse of any kind so keep that in mind before picking it up. I can power through just about anything but this book did draw some tears out of me. All in all, it was a great read imo.

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