Ancient Sentinel (Ancients Rising 7) by Katie Reus-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 24, 2023

He never expected her…

Jaguar shifter Ren never thought he’d fall for anyone again—not after the last woman he opened his heart to tried to cut it out. Literally. But the moment he met Grace he fell hard and fast for the sweet human. Except she’s made it clear she’s only looking for friendship, and he wants it all.

But he’ll do anything to claim her heart.

Grace officially has a crush on her friend—a quiet jaguar shifter with kind eyes and deadly skills. However, he hasn’t given any indication he wants more than friendship. So she vows to move on—until they’re given an assignment by their Alpha. When they’re stuck together under the same roof, sharing one bed, it becomes impossible to hide her attraction. But then an unknown threat surfaces, putting Grace’s life in danger, and Ren will stop at nothing to protect the woman he knows is his mate.

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REVIEW:ANCIENT SENTINEL is the seventh instalment in Katie Reus’ contemporary, adult ANCIENTS RISING erotic, paranormal, romance series. This is jaguar shifter Ren, and plant geneticist Grace O’Connor’s story line. ANCIENT SENTINEL can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

SOME BACKGROUND: Months earlier, several dragons rose from their sleep, and in the aftermath destroyed much of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in an apocalyptic showdown known as The Fall, but in doing so revealed the existence of the supernatural world to humankind. Ancients Rising focuses on the recovery of the city, and the group of supernaturals and dragons who have come to call New Orleans their home.

Told from third person perspective ANCIENT SENTINEL follows the building relationship between jaguar shifter Ren, and plant geneticist Grace O’Connor. Ren knows that the human female Grace is his mate but he may be too late, having bided his time in his approach to our heroine. His latest mission finds Ren and Grace on a cross country trip to check out a new territory for their alpha King. Grace is to help with the planting and harvesting of food, and Ren is asked to help investigate a series of thefts and damage to the local food supply. A surprise, a dangerous and deadly threat, and the claiming of our heroine find our couple on a month long assignment, only to return with a few more surprises for everybody back home.

The relationship between Grace and Ren has been developing for several month but Ren was taking his time in the face of their human/shifter difference. Everybody knows that Ren has eyes for our story line heroine but Grace may have move on with someone else. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of both supernatural and human secondary and supporting characters including Grandmother Josephine, Grace’s sister Luna, Hyacinth, Griffin, Juniper, Logan, King and Aurora, and Hunter the pet dragonling.

ANCIENT SENTINEL is a story of friendships and family, recovery and rescue, acceptance and love. The fast paced premise is engaging, intriguing and captivating; the romance is seductive; the characters are energetic and charismatic.

Reading Order and Previous reviews
Ancient Protector
Ancient Enemy
Ancient Enforcer
Ancient Vendetta
Ancient Retribution
Ancient Vengeance

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Reviewed by Sandy

Katie Reus is the New York Times, USA Today, and IndieReader bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Moon Shifter series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it.

However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense. Her book Avenger’s Heat recently won the Georgia RWA Maggie Award for Excellence in the fantasy/paranormal category.

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