Sanctuary, Ilona Andrews
Sanctuary, Ilona Andrews
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Sanctuary

Author: Ilona Andrews

Narrator: Chris Brinkley

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: NYLA

Published: 07/30/2024


Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews comes a novella featuring Roman, our favorite Volhv wizard in the always intriguing, colorful, volatile Kate Daniels world.

It’s not easy serving Chernobog, the God of Destruction, Darkness and Death…especially during the holidays; and especially when you’re out of eggnog and one of your pesky, freeloading mythic creatures has eaten your last cookie.

Roman would like nothing more than to be left alone, but when a wounded boy stumbles into his yard and begs for sanctuary, Roman takes him in. Now elite mercenaries are camped out on his property, combat mages are dousing the house with fire, and strange priests are unleashing arcane magic. They thought Roman was easy pickings, just a hermit in the woods, but they chose the wrong dark priest to annoy. For while Roman might be patient, he is the Black Volhv, filled with the love of his terrible god. For his adversaries, it's a fight to the death, but for him, it's just another day in the neighborhood.

About Ilona Andrews

When you have a husband-wife team of writers, reader interest is peaked. But, when the wife is a native born Russian, and the husband is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army, the rumor mill operates at full speed. Contrary to rumor, however, Ilona Andews I just a pseudonym for Ilona and Gordon, who met while in an English Composition 101 class in college. Gordon even says Ilona got a better grade than he did.

The couple has co-authored four NYT and USAT bestselling series books, and a #1 NYT bestselling in the urban fantasy of Kate Daniel's, a more rustic fantasy entitled the Edge, a paranormal romance called Hidden Legacy, and the free weekly serial Innkeeper Chronicles (that and other interesting details can be found on their website).

Gordon and one live in Texas with their two children and several dogs and cats.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on August 11, 2024

Peer Pressure. It's not always a bad thing. So. While I had pre-ordered this like a good little IA fan, I was mercilessly bullied bynot one, but two fellow Goodreaders into reading this in serial form. For the purposes of this review, we'll call them Sarah who smells of shrimp & lowercase carol. And wh......more

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on September 11, 2024

I truly don't remember Roman from the Kate Daniels world, but if you give me a book from Ilona Andrews, I'm going to read it. I'm an Ilona Andrews fan-girl. Sanctuary was... dense.You need to wade through a ton of Slavic world-building and lore, and it didn't always quite hold my interest. This boo......more

Goodreads review by Noi (in & out) on July 30, 2024

Happy publication day! Love me an Ilona Andrwes book :) This is a whole new world and I am here for it. It's also been ages since I read a book where the sole pov was a man, and I should be more intentional about it because this was just fascinating. Why so short, I need more :(......more

Goodreads review by Robin on November 30, 2024

Thank you to Netgalley for granting my wish for the Audiobook version of this book. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I have wanted a Roman story since Andrea's novella. The dark Volhv who sometimes shows up in a variety of silly pajamas from time to time final......more

Goodreads review by Anna [Bran. San. Stan] on September 18, 2024

I will never get enough of books set in Kate Daniel‘s world! Roman the Black Volhv was already intriguing as a minor character in the main novels and here, in his very own novella, he continues to fascinate. I really love how what we consider traditional evil is turned on its head. The adventure its......more