Raze

Written by Dakota Krout

Narrated by Luke Daniels

Humanity on the run. Desperate base building. Dark deeds done during daylight.

Joe has started to draw attention to himself and his abilities. While some of the attention is good and allows for personal growth, most of it is from various organizations that feel threatened by the sudden upswing of power that Joe's guild-The Wanderers-are attaining.

As the threat to earth begins to reach its peak, all of humanity has a choice: flee to Eternium, or stay for an uncertain future. Some stay, some go, some don't make the choice quickly enough. In Ardania, the human Kingdom is seeing an unprecedented influx of people. Supply and demand is an issue no matter where you go, as a civilization of a few million can't prepare to accept an eighth of Earth's inhabitants at once.

Joe sets out to solve problems where he can, but he can't be there for everyone . . . especially when a group of smiling enforcers are working to bring him down.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Nov 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781977374578

Reviews for Raze

[Javid · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Great book. Personally I found the narrator worse than the one for the first two books of the series

[Jonathan H · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

If you like the genre and need to feed your addiction it's ok. I wouldn't recommend it to a friend tho. It's ok, not great.

[Dawn Carter · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Joe never ceases to amaze me with the situations he gets up to, or his solutions to problems. Grr writing just like the first two and am eagerly awaiting the audiobooks of the next installments of this unique series. A++

[Geoff Hart · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Started out slow, but finished very well. Hope there's another installment!

[Kevin Wilcox · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I have toughly enjoyed this series of books even if it is on a rather obscure genre.

[Matt Wyndham · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

excellent series! Interesting characters, great development, neat game system, overall good read! (Lots of puns, but they're not terrible)

[Stefan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I like the series. Its one of my personal favourites. I eagerly await for the next audiobook. Great voice acting.

[Erik · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The forest puns had me bent over for a few minutes. Yet again, the book is finished on. A. Freaking. Pun.

[charlotte_kinzie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The descriptive bit: Raze is the third book in the River series by Roan Parrish. Huey is a recovering addict who runs a bar and has scheduled his life down to the most minute details. When he’s not working or working out, he’s sponsoring other folks from NA.

My thoughts bit: I absolutely loved this book and I haven’t even read the first two in the series. Let me tell you, I have just purchased the first two books in the series! That being said, don’t worry if you haven’t already plunged into the series, I didn’t have any trouble keeping up with the story. I would recommend starting the series from the beginning just so that you get to enjoy the story from the very beginning.

This book was a delicious tangle of love, angst, hurt, and passion. When Huey is working in his bar one night and sees Felix Rainey onstage singing karaoke, his curiosity is piqued. But the thing is, Huey has spent his sober life building walls and protecting himself from anything different, challenging or new. He lives his life as routinely as he can.

Huey is shocked when he finds out that Felix is interested in him. Felix is everything Huey isn’t. He’s open and emotional, young and vivacious and … spontaneous. Felix is the oldest in his family and has helped to raise his brothers and sisters. He’s a nervous wreck when he asks Huey out… and is stunned when Huey says yes. And thus it begins!

The romance between Huey and Felix was adorable and heartbreaking and I loved every moment of it. There was something very infectious about Felix. I loved the way that he struggled to say the things he needed to but was completely open at the same time. He was sweet and adorable and if Huey hadn’t wanted him, then I certainly would have willingly brought him home.

Huey is a complex character and I really appreciate the way that Parrish wrote him. I had a friend who was in NA and the realness of some of Huey’s thought patterns really worked for me. There’s been a lot of pain in his life and the way he found to deal with it was to cut off intimacy. So where does that leave Felix? It leaves Felix not knowing quite where he stands with Huey and wondering if he’s even being realistic about their feelings. For all his sweetness and loving nature, he’s realizing that he’s lost himself over the years because he’s been so busy taking care of everyone in his family.

The relationship between these two men is beautiful. It’s real and flawed and full of mistakes and fuck-ups and it’s so well-written.

[Clinton Wendorf · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good book if you enjoyed an MMO or game based anime.

[tonifgmamtc · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book will give you
an adrenaline surge from
all of the violence.

[(Rating flopped between 2 and 3 stars while reading) I had to write a review in the form of a haiku for a reading challenge. Haiku is suppose to be 3 lines 5, 7, 5 syllables. I think I did it. If not, I tried.]

[cathygeha · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wow! Gritty, grueling and grim this story is one of endurance and a will to live through unimaginable conditions. Raze is indomitable and amazing. Falsely accused, taken from a life of privilege, forced to kill to survive and finally free and able to get revenge he begins to remember…and part of his memories include Kisa. Kisa is a “princess” of the Bratva. Supposedly pampered and privileged she has suffered since the day the love of her life and her brother were both ripped away from her. The man that steps in, Alik, is a psychotic, perverted, killer and he has claimed her – for better or worse – mostly worse. She, too, has endured more than most and is a survivor. This is a book of survival, romance, love, family and much much more. I read Reap, book two in the series, before this one but it did not matter. Both are superb books and though dark definitely worth reading. Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the copy of this book to read and review.

[obsessed7by7books · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

**** I received an arc in exchange for an honest review ****

I absolutely love Tillie Cole's writing and this book was no disappointment.

What we have here is a deeply captivating, dark read, that pulls you in right from the start.

This book is written in a way that you can actually believe that these types of things happen in today's society.

818 is a boy that was ripped from his life and family in the most horrific way, betrayed by people that he thought as family and blamed for a despicable act.

We follow him throughout his years that I think that will haunt anyone that reads this book, I mean could these things really happen?? It's a question that I do find myself asking.

Kisa is another soul that is trapped within a devastating situation, and one that she feels that she is unable to escape as she finds it is within her duty after losing someone that she felt was her other half.

We follow these two in the hope that they find each other and get the HEA that they both deserve.

Tillie has written such a beautiful read and from page one you will be lost within the words of this book. I cannot wait to see what Tillie comes up with next.

If you don't like dark reads that contains explicit and non-consensual sexual situations, excessive violence, disturbingly sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language and mature topics. This is not the book for you.