Showing posts with label Shauna Richmond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shauna Richmond. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Highland Reaper by Shauna Richmond (Audiobook) ~Blog Tour

Publisher: Independently published
Publication Date: 24th June 2022
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Summary:

Their secret is out and Tristan soon discovers that his worst fears have come to life. There is a substantial price on his head and the men coming for him target his only weakness...Catherine.

The Raghnalls land in Oakwood and Tristan quickly learns that he is not the only person desperate to save his lover.

What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?

Can the Norsemen be trusted?

How on earth are they going to survive?


Review:

 Firstly thank you to Hygge Book Tours and Shauna Richmond for having me on this tour and sending me the book.
Now once again I had the audiobook for this one, and unfortunately, once again I did not get on with the narrator. We had a different narrator than we did for book one, so I had hoped I would like the narrator more but alas this was not the case. We had another male narrator but this time he spoke with a very clipped queen's English followed by trying to do a Scottish and Irish accent with little success and it just really put me off. So much so that when I then read the first few chapters again via ebook it put me off the book entirely.
I really enjoyed book one in the series and was really looking forward to diving into book two for this tour but unfortunately, the book fell flat of my expectations. I'm not sure if it's because I really got on badly with the narrator and that then coloured my opinion (I found it difficult to get the bad accents out of my head when reading the rest of the book) or if the book fell into second-book syndrome.
The same banter was there with Tristan and Catherine that I enjoyed in book one and the same connection that they have that I loved in book one was still there but for me, in this book, it didn't hit the same.
I do enjoy Shauna's writing so I think I may skip over to another one of her series and come back to this again when I have the narrator's voice out of my head and see if my opinion changes.


Krystina xx

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Shattered Steel: The Olden Chronicles by Shauna Richmond ~ Book Tour


 Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: 10th April 2022
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Summary:
In a world plagued with demons, bandits and shapeshifters, Catherine finds herself straying from her pack as they escape the hunters that stumbled across their camp. Finding herself in Oakwood, the land of the gentry, the brazen peasant finds herself attracting all sorts of attention. Catherine must find a way to survive in the world of the nobles even if that means being auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Her world turns on its head as a chance encounter with a man known as the Highland Reaper turns into a secret love affair. How will this notorious killer react when he finds out what she truly is? Will his unsavoury past come back to bite them both?

Too many choices, too many expectations and two questions.

How do you tame a wolf?

How can you love a monster?



Review:
Thank you too Hygge Book Tours and Shauna Richard for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
Ok, so I was given the audio and EPub of this book and I'm so grateful that I was. I started off with the audiobook(Im pretty new to audiobooks I only started reading them in the last 6 months so I like to try them first) and ill be honest I did not get on with it. The narrator I felt didn't fit with the book, maybe I was just expecting a female narrator because the MC is female, or at least as we get mixed points of view more than one narrator. He also read it in quite a dull way, sort of monotone for most of it so I had to switch to the EPub.
And that is far from dull, I really loved reading the book all the MC's had their own quirks and I enjoyed learning all their characters. Catherine is our main female MC and she's so full of fire I just loved her whole character and attitude and her being this beautiful red wolf when she shifts was a great image. It's got all you want in a fantasy romance I think, mythical creatures, shifters, steamy sex scenes, laugh-out-loud moments( yes I actually did and yes my OH gave me an odd look) and I really enjoyed the world-building Shauna has done. Without adding too much of a spoiler I so love the budding relationship between Catherine and Tristen and I really can't wait to read more of its development.
In short, if you love a romance fantasy this needs to be on your 2023 reading list. And now I'm off to go find book two to see what happens!

Krystina xx