Shallow River

By: H. D. Carlton

Narrated by: Jacob Morgan, Michelle Sparks

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

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. 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 and possessiveness, but 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....

©2020 H. D. Carlton (P)2023 H. D. Carlton

Wow! It's dark and heavy, but fantastic!

First- this is a very dark. I like far erotic romance, but this is so much darker than I've ever listened to and that's saying a lot. It is so full of pain and you can't help feel it because the writing and narration is so great. I slowed it down just a tad and it lowered my anxiety level. My brain and heart needed to process what was happening and it was tough. I highly recommend if you're looking for a raw and gritty listen. Also note there are a lot of triggers and I mean A LOT so make sure you research before stating the book. I need to choose a romcom next to balance it out. A+ for the performance. Michelle and Jacob were perfection. It wouldn't have worked with any other actors.

Fantastic, As Always

Once again, we have a fantastic H.D novel. At first I was bummed to once again be seeing the same female narrator, but I honestly loved her voice for River!

Love this book!

I love her book. I love her style of writing. I love the people who narrate everything is perfect.

So good!

This was my first audiobook, and it was such an emotional experience. More so than after reading the book back in January. The narrators were great! Jacob Morgan was scary as Ryan, creepy as Billy and an absolute hero as Mako.

Psychological warfare

Overall this was a perfect example of what victims going through domestic abuse could be going through and why they chose to stay. I really enjoyed this book and I look forward to reading more books by H. D. Carlton.

Heavy story, fantastic narration

HD Carlton writes it, I read it, I feel blessed. As always, dark story that I loved every moment of. I love Mako to the ends of the earth. River is badass and stubborn as hell.

The duet of the narrators and the feeling put into the reading we phenomenal and this is how I like an audiobook these days. Devoured this in one day

As a survivor I appreciate this book

I can tell when people read dark romance but have never really been through anything . This book is difficult to get through for survivors of severe abuse like myself , but it’s perfectly written and realistic . I liked it a lot more than HA but please be prepared for the triggers

H.D. Did again another banger on the shelf !

This was such a good read it was captivating heartbreaking angering and an all around rollercoaster but the ride was amazing when you make it to the end !

Narrators saved this

I liked the characters and story line. BUT.. there's not much story. It's all her inner monolog and description of how she feels and what's going than anything actually going on. For every 2 lines of actual story is 20 lines of her telling us how we should perceive it.

A great read!

This book is like a scary movie, where you don't wanna watch, but you can't look away. I finished it in two days. I loved the story! Great characters.