Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Claiming Rys
SERIES: Dark Forest Pack #1
AUTHOR: Annabelle Jacobs
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 291 Pages
RELEASE DATE: July 27, 2022
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All that time apart and yet the pull between them is as strong as ever…
Rys
Ten years ago Gabriel Mason betrayed me in the worst way. He made me question my instincts because I’d trusted him with a bone-deep certainty, and for that I will never forgive him.
Seeing him again after all this time sparks memories I thought I’d buried so far down they’d never surface. He’s as beautiful as I remember, but I’m older and wiser now, and I refuse to make the same mistakes again.
Gabriel
Rys Calder, wolf shifter and the biggest regret of my life. I loved him, and yet I didn’t share with him the one thing that eventually became our undoing. I broke his trust and I’ve carried that guilt for years. I knew seeing him again would hurt, but no matter how many times I’d imagined it, being on the receiving end of his cold stares and indifference hurt more than I’d anticipated.
Thrown together again with a killer on the loose, will the past continue to haunt them, or can they move past it and claim the future that fate always had in store for them?
Claiming Rys is an MM paranormal romance with second chances, fated mates, pining, angry alphas, and feisty ex-hunters.
REVIEW:
This is my first review since re-joining the team at Love Bytes. I’m very glad I picked this book to be my first one because it was a very well written and enjoyable story with enough mystery to keep me guessing. Annabelle Jacobs has written a story set in a world with shifters, witches, the Fae, and humans all living side by side. It is the first book in a new series called the Dark Forest Pack.
The story opens with our introduction to Rys Calder, the Alpha of the Dark Forest Pack. He has been called to a neighboring pack where one of the younger pack members has gone unexpectedly feral. There was no warning, and the kid was one of the nicest in the pack. He lashed out and attacked his mother, and now under the law, a group known as The Hunters, a group of humans, has been called in to find him and stop him. They have found him, and the boy is severely wounded but alive. Upon arriving at the scene, Rys is shocked to discover a man named Gabriel Mason there as part of a two-man paranormal police team. Gabriel and his work partner Max have been investigating a series of rogue shifters who have had to be put down by the Hunters. Something isn’t right with the trail of rogue shifters and Gabriel and his work partner Max are tasked with finding out what.
We quickly learn that Gabriel is Rys’ ex. What we don’t know is the details of the breakup until the story progresses. Gabriel will have to interact with Rys, the man he was involved with ten years previously and the one he has never forgotten. Same goes for Rys, but Rys HATES Gabriel for something that happened that broke them up.
As the story continues, we learn that Gabriel was a member of one of the most notorious Hunter groups, led by a man named Tombs. We’re kind of kept in the dark as to what transpired, but we know it is something to do with the reason that Gabriel and Rys ended their relationship. But something is drawing them back towards each other. Why? Gabriel did something so heinous that Rys can never forgive him… or can he?
Enough spoilers. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story and rushed through to the end. The book is very well written and lends itself towards the next book in the series. I highly recommend it and I for one will be waiting for that next installment in the story.
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