Shallow River

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Published Nov 1, 2020

435 pages

Average rating: 7.33

75 RATINGS

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Lauren Greely
Jul 01, 2025
4/10 stars
I have a lot to say. I decently like the book until about 60% in when plot lines were just not making sense. I’m all for a shocking twist. But when there are literally no clues leading up to this?? Just does not make sense. I forced myself to finish it. It wasn’t even all that spicy it was just severely fucked up. I think they had a total of 3 MAYBE 4 spicy scenes between MMC and FMC. The rest was all SA towards her by other people.
2.25 ⭐️ 3 spice (for what there was..)
Heyhay1ndonly
May 25, 2025
7/10 stars
My first dark romance, and the first half was really hard and irritating to read, but it is probably the mentality of someone who is actually being abused and manipulated. The second half makes it worth it, and there is also a murder mystery plot going on at the same time.
Courtasaurus Rex
Mar 22, 2025
8/10 stars
4.5/5

I went into this book blindly, other than the fact that I like H.D Carlton's Cat and Mouse Duet. The rage this writing made me feel towards Ryan was astounding, and the satisfaction of revenge was pure bliss.

This is a realistic portrayal of victims in an abusive relationship and the mindset that one is put in to blame themselves and always see themselves at fault and never their abuser. This is not necessarily a happy story, but it has a happy ending and some good smut.
Weronika
Dec 11, 2024
4/10 stars
2 stars

Idk what to say about this book..
First of all, River is the most annoying and dumb girl character I've ever read about.
Like how can she be acting all brave and smart in the last 100 pages of the book, when the rest was about her pathetic self not being about to stand up for herself. Not only did she do that, but she also made sure to blame everything on herself and make herself the victim.
She can't shut up about the past, like we get that happened to u and we r sorry, but not everything is about that..
If I was Mako I wouldn't bother, I mean he's also clearly dumb for choosing her, but ok..
All the character's are completely useless and have the worst personalities ever.
I hate this book, but not to the point to rate it 1 star as there was quite a lot of tension and suspense and the plot wasn't that bad, so here I am with 2 stars.
Lisaecarter21
Oct 02, 2024
9/10 stars
I love her mind

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