In His Hands

Yet she does not allow them to dominate her storylines no that's reserved for her couples. Abby is so innocent when it comes to the modern society we live in and she's written in such a way that it's impossible not to empathise with her and indeed cheer her on as she boldly moves forward. Pairing her with the brooding Luc allowed them both to relish life no matter how scarred they are both inside and out whilst exploring a mutual passion. Yes they have personal struggles but there's a depth to this story and a wealth of emotion.

It's not just a sensual journey though as there are bigoted stalkers next door at the church who are determined to get Abby back no matter the cost. Luc still has to come to terms with his own past as the story plays out and when all looks lost there's a bright new dawn! This voluntary take is of a copy I requested from Netgalley and my thoughts and comments are honest and I believe fair I loved the way the author wrote this hero, especially in the beginning: I also loved how Adriana Anders fleshed out the cultural and linguistic differences between the French hero, Luc, and the American heroine, Abby.

I'm grateful to the publisher, Sourcebooks Casablanca, and NetGalley for providing a free copy. May 25, Sarah Wayne rated it it was amazing Shelves: I keep looking at this author's bio in Goodreads thinking I must be missing something because it only shows three books. How in the world is it possible that Adriana Anders has only written 3 books??

An author this good is supposed to have at least twenty books under their belt with many on the bestselling lists and blogs and conferences tolling on and on about her work and how In His Hands by Adriana Anders is the 3rd book in her Blank Canvas series and the second book I've read by this author. An author this good is supposed to have at least twenty books under their belt with many on the bestselling lists and blogs and conferences tolling on and on about her work and how amazingly talented she is and she is all of that and so much more.

I can't think of an author who has gripped me so completely with only two out of three books read. And although each part of a series, they stand on their own and don't particularly need to be read in order, which I'm grateful for because I'm going to go buy the 2nd book after I finish writing my review, don't know how I missed it. I can only hope she's been writing in secret these past several years and will publish a plethora of books to fulfill my needs for more amazing stories. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for a honest review.

Feb 21, Jennifer rated it really liked it. Three books into the Blank Canvas series and I'm still loving it. Anders writes heartbreaking and sometimes dark plots for the couples to overcome. In His Hands, has me spitting mad most of the time. I also love that the evil leaders of the cult were taken down without any innocents being hurt in the process. Aug 05, Under the Covers Book Blog rated it really liked it. It covers a very difficult subject matter and Anders paints the story with vivid strokes, feeding the reader only a piece of information at a time.

But she does it brilliantly. She is a gifted writer—a storyteller. There are multiple layers and a complexity that needed to be portrayed in the slow manner it was presented. Abby Merkley resides in a small, religious commune. Her mother brought her to this way of life at a young age. She was raised to not question the elders of the community and the beauty she once saw on this mountain has turned ugly.

She longs for freedom and independence. She wants to help a small child. She needs a job. Luc Stanek is a store owner, growing grapes and making wine. He keeps to himself. And he finds himself reaching out to help her. Two strangers, both lonely for different reasons. Two hearts beating the odds to find love in the strangest of places. In His Hands is an emotional journey and is solely character driven which does make for a slower read.

It can be hard to read at times with the heavy subject matter but Anders tackles it beautifully. Subscribe to our blog by email! What an intense read! This sort of reminded me of the movie "The Village" by M. Abby is in a cult like church where the leader does not believe in outside influences. No doctors, no medicine, what happens is the will of God.

They are all on a piece of land in the mountains and locked behind a prison like fencing. The problem is Abby isn't willing to just follow along. Sammy is a boy with Down Syndrome who has seizures. No one will help him and Abby is determined to get a job so What an intense read! No one will help him and Abby is determined to get a job so she can help get Sammy out before it's too late. This is where she meets Luc. He owns the adjoining land and cultivates a grape field for wine making.

She has seen him out there working and she is convinced he will hire her to earn money. She cuts a hole in the fence to sneak out everyday and work for Luc. Luc isn't exactly thrilled about Abby's intrusion but he's just as drawn to her and her tenacity and ends up hiring her. Luc is a very anti social person. He's lived next to the church for two years and had no clue what was happening in his own back yard. This story is wild!

You learn piece by piece what is really happening behind those fence lines. So many of them have grown up there and know no other way. The more I learned about Isiah, the leader, the more angry I got. He's basically the devil in sheeps clothing. This is definitely a story that will get your emotions charged. A few warnings for readers with triggers: There is a lot of religion talk. Even though Abby is an adult, she has child like innocence.

In His Hands (Blank Canvas, #3) by Adriana Anders

Luc has to explain a lot to her. The author did a good job of not going into too much detail but still expressing some of the abuse so you know what Abby has suffered. I've read and liked all three of the books in this series but this one was the most intense. It's well written and can be read as a stand alone. ARC provided by NetGalley. View all 8 comments. I was reading a cult book at the same time as I listened to this one. I did wonder at times who was it who had eaten dirt in a cellar, oh the other cult book.

Cults are scary, I will tell you that. Abby grew up in a cult. She was married too young to an old man. Her mother blindly follows the faith and honors her husband, the leader. But Abby wants to leave, she wants more. She does not want this miserable existence. She is naive, but that makes sense since she lives in this sheltered backwards p I was reading a cult book at the same time as I listened to this one. She is naive, but that makes sense since she lives in this sheltered backwards place. Luke lives on the same mountain. He does not like people, he just wants to farm. To be left alone.

They did come together rather fast. They had not known each other for long. But I guess he was lonely, she wanted something new. And they did fancy each other. The story is about them falling for each other, and her trying to break away from that horrible cult. The journey from that is long. Cult people are creepy weirdos. It did have a slow start but it got better as it got scary Narration Wendy Tremont King I have gotten hooked on a fast speed and with this one I listened really fast.

Some voices do really well in faster speed. I liked how she did her voices. A great difference between them. Luke's accent though, eh, see it is so easy to make those caricature accents. I have met French people, not had those tv accents. I am sure some have, but in this day of age at least I got my accent from watching tv. But I guess it was needed to make us get he was French She did a good job Jun 27, Christine rated it really liked it Shelves: This sharply emotional story brings to stark life the pain and loneliness felt by Luc and Abby from opposite sides of the fence separating his farm from Abby's religious cult's compound.

I wasn't prepared for Abby's brutal and bleak existence, or the extent of Luc's self-imposed exile. But most of all, I wasn't prepared for the deep emotional and physical depths Luc and Abby had to traverse just to find peace. At first, the pacing of the book was almost excruciatingly slow and I toyed with skipp This sharply emotional story brings to stark life the pain and loneliness felt by Luc and Abby from opposite sides of the fence separating his farm from Abby's religious cult's compound.

At first, the pacing of the book was almost excruciatingly slow and I toyed with skipping ahead. There was so much internal musing on both Abby and Luc's part. But once Abby opened Luc's eyes to her world and its terrible dangers, this suddenly became a taut, suspenseful saga with almost Hitchcock-like tension.

I was on edge for almost the entire book, wondering how these two damaged people could possibly escape the physical dangers of the cult and the storm, much less the dangers of their long-suppressed emotions. And that thought decided her. Forget modesty, forget everything but survival. Despite the savageness of the world and people around them, Luc and Abby were nothing but tender and careful with each other. These are two people who need to cherish and to be cherished; a bit of loveliness among the ruins. I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. May 25, Celeste rated it really liked it Shelves: This read was different than the usual New Adult romance I tend to find myself picking up.

I am drawn to characters with baggage and difficult pasts they have to overcome and I hadn't read a religious cult one yet. It definitley had a different feel to the whole story, almost an innocence so huge it was hard to wrap my brain around since the members of the cult were so isolated. I don't know if I have a feeling either way towards this "genre" but it was interesting for sure! Abby was a very stron This read was different than the usual New Adult romance I tend to find myself picking up. Abby was a very strong heroine, and she knew the cult was wrong even if she couldn't exactly figure out why.

She was looking for work, but it turned into oh, so much more. Luc was very rugged and a total manly man. He was a stand up guy, but also really stand-offish. However, Abby did something to him and he just softened. He was so closed off and the last thing he was looking for was a relationship, but when it's right, it's right.

The romance and chemistry were there from the beginning. It was as if opposites attracted and these two had a connection. I also struggled because they seemed to be doing of lot of "things", yet to me Abby had some serious injuries and should not have even been able to move, much less get frisky with Luc. The plot was good, but where I struggled was the detail of the torture Abby went through.

I prefer the fade to black over explicit. I spent nearly the entire book waiting for another shoe to drop biting my nails. I had to put the book down a few nights in a row because I wasn't sure when she would be captured and what they would do to her and I wasn't up for reading about it.

However, I did love the dynamic and the story, I was just a baby with the stress of it all! The ending nearly killed me. It was good and I wish I had been more relaxed while reading, but I didn't know what I had to anticipate. However, it worked out even better than I could have imagined and I loved it Rec it? If you want a New Adult romance that is a little different, yet still a romance through and through, this is a great addition for your TBR.

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Oct 02, Gina rated it did not like it Shelves: I have a lot I could say about this one. Much of it involves rants concerning TSTL moments.

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I didn't hate it as much as the 1 star suggests but can't rate it higher. I'm so far behind on reviews, I'm just going to let the star stand for itself. May 21, Madeline Iva rated it it was amazing. The menace level in the Blank Canvas series is taken up another notch--but this time the enemy is a religious cult. Adriana Anders builds her series up and then burns it all down to the ground again with this third book -- I won't say any more, but with prose that you just sink into, I'm looking forward to more of her work in the future! Aug 02, Gaele rated it really liked it Shelves: Adriana Anders is on my must watch list: In the third book from her blank canvas series, she brings us yet another set of characters who have tried to move past their insecurities and make new paths for themselves.

Easily read in any order: Abby has been raised in a cult: Innocent in all the ways of the world, she harnesses her fear of the unknown in an effort to escape and find a way to pay for treatment, denied by the cult, for a young boy in desperate need. The uniqueness of Abby: This did start slowly: His every waking moment is spent gently tending his vines as a seller of wine grapes with a sense that the grape lives in his soul as a native of Bourdeaux. At the same time, the pressures from the outside increase, and the story starts to build tension and keeping readers wondering just what is next.

With Abby and Luc, their relationship is decidedly as friends that grows into more: I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: Jul 25, Christina rated it really liked it. I'm just not sure how I feel about this one.

Did I enjoy it? But I'm not gonna lie. I spent a lot of time skimming the beginning due to the set up. Don't get me wrong. It's not the writing that I struggled with. It was the story line. I mean, it worked in terms of bringing these two together, but He's from the Bordeaux region, stemmin 3. He's from the Bordeaux region, stemming from a line of winemakers. But he left home and ended up a wine grape seller.

Not a wine maker. Not that he hasn't "experimented" with wine making, he just doesn't think he's good enough. But one day, while pruning his vines, someone enters his life who just might change the way he feels about that. Actually, the way he feels as a whole. After her husband dies, she begins questioning everything. After watching the "grape man" next door for a while, she musters up enough courage to ask him if she could work for him.

To raise enough money to leave the Church and start a new life. But things don't exactly go as planned. And when things crumble, guess who's there to help her put herself back together? Like I mentioned earlier, I liked this story at times. I liked how innocent Abby is and how Luc literally teaches her things for the first time. I like how their relationship unfolds and blossoms.

It was getting there that I struggled with. But as always, the author found a way to bring me back to the story at hand which was really about Abby finding herself with a lot of help from Luc. The classification may be contemporary romance but it feels like romantic suspense. I am in tense limbo the entire time I listen. Or heck, when I am not listening. I keep waiting for the bad guys to be My head plays every worst case scenario. In His Hands is especially emotional since there is a cult "church" involved which is a real trigger for me.

I dislike people using religious beliefs to be unkind or worse. I'm enjoying how the narrator has captured the southern dialects, as well as the other characters from various parts of the world who inhabit this small town of Blackwood, Virginia. She gives them distinct voices, adding to their personality, from the story. The pacing and delivery added so much to the characters and my feelings. Abby's introduction to the "normal" world was such a sweet view.

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Her reactions to everything were smart and fun. She made sexy times so much sexier with her curiosity and naive wonder. She was smart and so brave, although not protective enough of herself. It was also heart-warming to see characters from previous books. Luc was isolated in so many ways. Abby was a fresh lens to the world for him which he needed. I didn't like the way they weren't exactly open about their feelings and the situation. Some of their plans were ridiculous. Luck played a big part in their happy ending plus good people having their back. I look forward to seeing what happens next with them, in the background at least, in any future Blank Canvas series books.

Yes, I suppose so. How… How would you touch me? If I were normal? May 15, C bond rated it really liked it. Jun 28, Kate rated it it was amazing. This review was copied from my romance novel review blog: Anders knows how to write an ending so full of love and warmth that you forget the pain and are more than willin This review was copied from my romance novel review blog: Anders knows how to write an ending so full of love and warmth that you forget the pain and are more than willing to subject yourself to it over and over again. Her stories are unique, captivating and utterly romantic in a way which no other romance novel can compare.

In His Hands gives you moments of torment and desperation intermingled with heart-wrenching scenes of open and honest love between two exceptional characters, Luc and Abby. Luc and Abby, much like the characters of her previous novels, are special. How can they not be? Anders has a wicked talent for creating characters who are so wacky and beautiful and vulnerable that you simply cannot help but fall in love with them.

They're so different from one another and their pasts are so complicated. Her writing is poetic; so rhythmic and beautifully worded that you often forget to breathe. This series is perfect for those who like their romance novels with a little more… everything. More drama, more chaos, more danger, more sex.



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