Her love interest is the son of the alpha of the pack. With the Blackwater pack, she’s learning about things like Netflix and how to cook healthy meals, and she’s making friends for the first time in her life.Īnd then there’s Remy.

She thinks she’s weak, but she’s really the strongest character of all. I loved how isolated Skye had been, and just how strong she has become. On the night before she’s to officially become an omega, she and her mother escape, heading to the Blackwater Pack up north. She’s always been destined to be an “omega”, which has a far worse connotation to this pack than it does to others. Skye was born a bastard daughter to a cruel pack of shifters in New Mexico. The book can be read as a standalone–some things are wrapped up in the book–but there’s an epilogue that hints at how the plotline will continue and makes it nearly impossible to stop here. Wow, this book was so deliciously dark and good! It’s the first in a trilogy, and it’s a slow-burn romance between Remy and Skye. Please know that I am now a total fan of this book and the world inside it. This book packs in pretty much everything I need in a story AND MORE. There is the good, the bad, the ugly, the moving, the FREAKING HYSTERICAL (there are at least five moments that had me laughing hard with this A+ one-liners or funny exchanges). I just.I can't recommend this book enough. (Which TOTALLY reminds me: if you liked Rachel Vincent's shifter series that starts with Stray, you would LOVE this book.) The relationships Skype develops and the past trauma she is trying to reconcile with her new circumstances really hits you in the gut again and again. If anything, they only intensify the light, healthy, and calm moments for the reprieve they are for the females of the wolf shifters. There are incredibly dark, gory, and traumatic experiences depicted, but they aren't gratuitously included. This book is more New Adult, toeing the lines of YA and adult fiction. I was really excited to receive an ARC of it and be able to give Hannah feedback, but what I never anticipated was how obsessed I would become. Overall, without any doubts, I love this book. BUT my point: if you like Twilight, I think you would get down on Sanctum. I tried reviewing the notes in my Kindle and for some reason not all my notes are there any more, so I can't pull the specific examples I had. the intensity of some of the situations and the plot twists the intensity of the relationship between Skye and Remy, very reminiscent of Bella and Edwards

I want to start off explaining why I kept getting some serious Twilight vibes: I've been sitting on my thoughts for this book because I wanted to be 100% sure that these are my long-term thoughts and feelings and not influenced by excitement and the freshness of the story's drama.

Sanctum hannah mcbride