Review: Shelter in Garnet Run by Roan Parrish

Title: Shelter in Garnet Run

Series: Garnet Run

Author: Roan Parrish

Length: 181 Pages

Category: Holiday Romance

Rating: 4 Stars

At a Glance: Shelter in Garnet Run falls faithfully into the heart-warmer category, and Roan Parrish delivers with a Holiday Romance that gives the gift of good feels.

Reviewed By: Lisa

Blurb: River Mills loves working at the Dirt Road Cat Shelter in the cozy town of Garnet Run. They finally have a safe place to live and wonderful friends (feline and human), for the first time. But love? They’ve never had much luck … until gorgeous, confident Cassidy Darling bursts through the shelter door one night with an injured cat in his arms.

Cassidy loves all animals and when their lives are cut short, he loves honoring them through the art of ethical taxidermy. Craftmas, the local holiday art fair, is his biggest sales event of the year. When the cutie he met at the cat shelter the week before turns out to be running the booth next to his, Cassidy is thrilled. But River isn’t—taxidermy? Horrifying!

But as they get to know each other, River realizes that Cassidy is vulnerable and kind, and Cassidy learns River has the biggest heart of anyone he’s ever met—just in time to share a Christmas full of sexy exploration, emotional connection, and, of course, cats.

Review: When readers love a character so much that they beg the author to write that character their very own happy ending, Shelter in Garnet Run is what they want. River Mills wasn’t meant to remain quietly in the background, although that’s decidedly where they’re most comfortable. River deserved their happily ever after, and they got it in the sweetest and most precious way. This book is what we needed, and Roan Parrish delivered with a Holiday Romance that gives the gift of good feels.

To know the town of Garnet Run is to know that it’s fictional. You know this, not because it doesn’t exist on a map but because it’s a utopia where there’s no hate, no violence, no crime. It’s a place that’s accepting and welcoming to everyone, but that doesn’t mean it’s a place where everyone is breezy and carefree by default. River is still working on becoming comfortable in their own skin. Cassidy Darling doesn’t dash in to be the hero of River’s story. He merely sweeps River off their feet with a gentle kindness and his own vulnerabilities that win River’s heart.

And cats. There are lots of adorable cats too.

Shelter in Garnet Run falls faithfully into the heart-warmer category. It’s a quiet story, simple in the way of two people who find and fall in love with each other without even meaning to, but once done, commit to each other very much on purpose.

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