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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Less egregiously erotic scenes in this one and the middle was kinda boring, which made me say maybe this isn’t the series for me, but there’s a twist at the end that kinda makes it all worth it. I did enjoy the more developed backstory, which made up for the slower paced present day scenes. All in all it was still a page turner.
3.5⭐️
In Feast of Sparks things pick up where the previous book left off. The discovery of the bones and all the mystery around Thornchapel left me anticipating new twists and turns and revelations at every flip of the page. There were so many questions I had coming into this book, but foremost on my mind was:
1. What happened between Auden and Saint
2. What sinister, unexplainable, possibly paranormal thing is happening at Thornchapel
So.....
#1 was answered, but it took 400 pages to do that
In Feast of Sparks things pick up where the previous book left off. The discovery of the bones and all the mystery around Thornchapel left me anticipating new twists and turns and revelations at every flip of the page. There were so many questions I had coming into this book, but foremost on my mind was:
1. What happened between Auden and Saint
2. What sinister, unexplainable, possibly paranormal thing is happening at Thornchapel
So.....
#1 was answered, but it took 400 pages to do that
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
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4.5 BORN OF THORNS CROWNS
Wow! I just finished and my word. My head is still reeling, my mind is processing it all. What I can say for sure is that is HOT, everything erotica should be. It is filled with beautiful prose, as all of Sierra Simone’s stories are. It is unique and complex and an interesting swirl of love and romance, religion and mythology, mystery and bdsm. It is uniquely Sierra Simone.
Feast of Sparks focuses more on St. Sebastian. We get more of his back story and his relationship with Auden. We know from book one that their relationship is tenuous , but here we get the why. We see Saint’s character evolve just as his relationship with Auden and Poe. We see the group change and evolve as well, coming into new roles, finding out more about this chapel that seems to have ensnared them.
This book is intriguing on so many levels, and not just because of the steamy, erotic scenes between the group, couples, and trios. It is because of the mythical and religious aspect of the land. Just like the characters, Sierra’s words wrap us up in her world. We are invested in the mystery, we want to find the secrets with them. We want to understand what happened in the past and what that means for all of them in the present. I’m loving the evolution of Auden, the look into his relationship with Saint. The dichotomy of sweet and rough and the hedonistic and religious. With each ritual, the change to the group grows more significant and after the end of this one, I have no clue where we go from here.
As with most Sierra Simone books, there is an interesting connection between God and physical intimacy. Some people perceive polyamorous relationships or even kink to be ungodly, but Sierra writes in such a way that you see these ideologies as being woven together, one cannot be without the other. Just like the physical aspect, there is a great deal of historical details, setting, and connection between myths and the evolution of religion. This I found to be just as enthralling as the romance itself.
This book is heavy. Heavy in details, heavy in history, heavy in kink and desire. It is unlike anything I have read before, and I’m not sure I will ever read again. But what I do know is that Sierra Simone continues to push my boundaries, making me examine my own ideas of sexuality and desires and that evolution of man and our relationship with the land and God isn’t as clear and set inside the lines as we might like to believe. Like her story, she writes outside the lines of erotica, and for this reason, she will always be a must read.
ARC received in exchange for an honest review
4.5 BORN OF THORNS CROWNS
Wow! I just finished and my word. My head is still reeling, my mind is processing it all. What I can say for sure is that is HOT, everything erotica should be. It is filled with beautiful prose, as all of Sierra Simone’s stories are. It is unique and complex and an interesting swirl of love and romance, religion and mythology, mystery and bdsm. It is uniquely Sierra Simone.
Feast of Sparks focuses more on St. Sebastian. We get more of his back story and his relationship with Auden. We know from book one that their relationship is tenuous , but here we get the why. We see Saint’s character evolve just as his relationship with Auden and Poe. We see the group change and evolve as well, coming into new roles, finding out more about this chapel that seems to have ensnared them.
This book is intriguing on so many levels, and not just because of the steamy, erotic scenes between the group, couples, and trios. It is because of the mythical and religious aspect of the land. Just like the characters, Sierra’s words wrap us up in her world. We are invested in the mystery, we want to find the secrets with them. We want to understand what happened in the past and what that means for all of them in the present. I’m loving the evolution of Auden, the look into his relationship with Saint. The dichotomy of sweet and rough and the hedonistic and religious. With each ritual, the change to the group grows more significant and after the end of this one, I have no clue where we go from here.
As with most Sierra Simone books, there is an interesting connection between God and physical intimacy. Some people perceive polyamorous relationships or even kink to be ungodly, but Sierra writes in such a way that you see these ideologies as being woven together, one cannot be without the other. Just like the physical aspect, there is a great deal of historical details, setting, and connection between myths and the evolution of religion. This I found to be just as enthralling as the romance itself.
This book is heavy. Heavy in details, heavy in history, heavy in kink and desire. It is unlike anything I have read before, and I’m not sure I will ever read again. But what I do know is that Sierra Simone continues to push my boundaries, making me examine my own ideas of sexuality and desires and that evolution of man and our relationship with the land and God isn’t as clear and set inside the lines as we might like to believe. Like her story, she writes outside the lines of erotica, and for this reason, she will always be a must read.
ARC received in exchange for an honest review
"give me more moments like this.
more hours and days and years.
let me belong to the wild god forever."
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OK IT’S TRUE THIS BOOK ISN’T AS WELL STRUCTURED OR ENCHANTING AS THE FIRST ONE, BUT SIERRA SIMONE IS STILL A MASTER OF ANGST, SACRED SEX, AND THE LUSHEST EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS AND SENSATION YOU WILL EVER READ IN YOUR LIFE. PERHAPS IT HELPED THAT THIS REREAD TOOK PLACE OVER MAY-DAY-EVE AND MAY-DAY WHILE I WAS DRINKING WINE AND ANOINTED WITH FLYING OINTMENT. I DON’T CARE THAT THIS BOOK IS CONTROVERSIAL, OR MEANDERING; IT’S STILL BETTER THAN MOST BOOKS OUT THERE. FIVE STARS. TEN OUTTA TEN. Also, watch me scream if my Becket theory comes true in Door of Bruises, I will absolutely lose my shit.
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Whoa. I know people are hating the end, but my id feasts on that dark fucked-up shit so I think that I loved it?
Overall Feast of Sparks lacked something for me that A Lesson In Thorns was totally lush and dripping with (maybe a certain depth of magic and mystery), but I still enjoyed it and love the overall themes.
more hours and days and years.
let me belong to the wild god forever."
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OK IT’S TRUE THIS BOOK ISN’T AS WELL STRUCTURED OR ENCHANTING AS THE FIRST ONE, BUT SIERRA SIMONE IS STILL A MASTER OF ANGST, SACRED SEX, AND THE LUSHEST EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS AND SENSATION YOU WILL EVER READ IN YOUR LIFE. PERHAPS IT HELPED THAT THIS REREAD TOOK PLACE OVER MAY-DAY-EVE AND MAY-DAY WHILE I WAS DRINKING WINE AND ANOINTED WITH FLYING OINTMENT. I DON’T CARE THAT THIS BOOK IS CONTROVERSIAL, OR MEANDERING; IT’S STILL BETTER THAN MOST BOOKS OUT THERE. FIVE STARS. TEN OUTTA TEN. Also, watch me scream if my Becket theory comes true in Door of Bruises, I will absolutely lose my shit.
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Whoa. I know people are hating the end, but my id feasts on that dark fucked-up shit so I think that I loved it?
Overall Feast of Sparks lacked something for me that A Lesson In Thorns was totally lush and dripping with (maybe a certain depth of magic and mystery), but I still enjoyed it and love the overall themes.
we just had to add an incest subplot into an already wild book didn’t we
3.5 stars.
I genuinely think I would have loved this if it was half the length. The ‘twist’ doesn’t bother me because I went into it already knowing from people spoiling it lmao. I loved the hunt, and it was weird that the rest of the night was just kinda glossed over and reduced to a full paragraph. I get it’s kinda about them three but there’s so much about it also being the others and then it feels like an after thought. I get that there’s lots to uncover etc but there’s so much while getting not much that after 7 hours of reading I don’t feel like I got enough and I just got too much mundane stuff. I dunno maybe including so many people was too much for the story or something but it was just too damn long
I genuinely think I would have loved this if it was half the length. The ‘twist’ doesn’t bother me because I went into it already knowing from people spoiling it lmao. I loved the hunt, and it was weird that the rest of the night was just kinda glossed over and reduced to a full paragraph. I get it’s kinda about them three but there’s so much about it also being the others and then it feels like an after thought. I get that there’s lots to uncover etc but there’s so much while getting not much that after 7 hours of reading I don’t feel like I got enough and I just got too much mundane stuff. I dunno maybe including so many people was too much for the story or something but it was just too damn long
I mean... after such a storyline, I really didn't need that ending!
This is exactly the type of books that takes all your inhibitions and throws them away to a place where they'll never come back from.
All or nothing.
This is exactly the type of books that takes all your inhibitions and throws them away to a place where they'll never come back from.
All or nothing.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No