Take Me to the River by Kaci Rose

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What’s a girl to do when she finds a sexy giant bathing in the river?

Emelie

Who leaves their girlfriend in the woods after a fight?

My now EX-boyfriend that’s who. One fight, okay a BIG fight because I found out he was cheating on me while we were camping and poof! He left me in the words.

So, I start walking to town, only I get turned around end up at the river where I meet Axel. This guy is HUGE.

With a storm rolling in I don’t have much choice but to trust him and take shelter in his cabin since I’ve been walking for hours AWAY from town.

Several days of rain wash out the road and it looks like I’m stuck here with my giant. Only he’s nothing like I thought he’d be. He’s quiet, watchful, smart, and funny.

Axel

I’ve lived alone for years and I’ve been okay with that until one day she finds me bathing at the river.

She is small, cute, and talks a lot. I find I don’t mind it.

When the storm washes out the only road into town and she is stranded with me a while longer only I am grateful for more time with her.

I like her in my space, I like showing her what I do, and how I survive out here. I like her in my bed.

After years of living alone, I find little appeal in it anymore.

When her ex-boyfriend shows up at my door can I convince her to stay?

Can I ask her to give up a life in town for one out here in the mountains with me?

Take Me to the River

A gentle giant!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😚☹️😉🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Emelie – while on a camping trip with her boyfriend, she picks up his phone when he keeps getting text messages and finds out he has been cheating on her. When he gets back, she tells him she found out and needs some time, so she goes for a walk, but when she returns later in the day, he and all their stuff is gone, and it is getting cold out. She walks for miles and starts to worry that she will freeze and die.

The Hero: Axel – he has lived alone in the mountains of Montana for years. He is very tall and muscular with lots of tattoos, a real mountain of a man. He is washing in the river when Emelie comes upon him and asks for his help. She tells him what happened with her boyfriend, and Axel is attracted to the tiny woman, so it isn’t really any hardship to offer her his help.

The Story: By the time Axel and Emelie get to Axel’s cabin, it has started raining and the only way to town is on a road that washes out during the rain in the early spring. So, Emelie will have to stay with Axel for a few days at least. The two of them are attracted to each other from the start. Axel is very tall, nearly 7 feet, and most women from his past were a bit wary of him because of how big he is, so when he moved to the mountains, he had adjusted to the fact that he would probably be alone for the rest of his life. When Emelie came into his life, he started to feel things and want things.

I liked this mountain man and city girl romance. It was very sexy and there was a ton of chemistry between Axel and Emelie and a bunch of sexual tension. The mountain man trope is always fun because it is usually a bit of forced proximity and the characters get to know each other in the midst of extreme circumstances. I liked the fact that Emelie and Axel took the time to get to know each other.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Krys Janae and Javi Wilder. Krys has a soft feminine voice that is very pleasant, and she sounds very natural. Javi has a nice gravelly voice that I really liked as well. Though at times, you could tell he was reading.

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