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A Lesson in Thorns
by Sierra Simone
After reading this book, I had to take a few hours to process the content. I was so impressed and enthralled by this story that includes pagan and religious themes, individuals with such high sexuality, that they didn’t discriminate the gender of the subject of their lust. You need to read this book with an open mind savor the delicacies of the author’s prose, her elaborate descriptions of the scenes, the imagery she evokes in the reader.
There are six characters in this story that are intricately involved, starting with an experience in a hidden chapel. Six kids go exploring through a maze in Thornchapel while their parents party in the mansion. They find a tunnel that leads to a chapel and have a spiritual experience that marks their souls forever. Twelve years later, Proserpina comes back to Thornchapel to catalog and inventory the library books. She has a hidden second purpose, which is to investigate her mother’s disappearance years ago and which she thinks is linked to Thornchapel. There she finds Auden, who is now the owner of the estate, Delphine who is now his fiancée and Rebecca, who is working with Auden in the remodel of the estate and grounds. Beckett is a frequent weekend visitor and is now a priest assigned to a nearby church. St. Sebastián lives in the village nearby but is an outcast, now an enemy of Auden.
Each character has secrets in their past, a hidden lust for one of characters in the group, and as a whole, have unresolved issues. Auden, Beckett, St. Sebastián and Proserpina have struggles with dreams and feelings about what happened twelve years ago. This book develops into a fantastic elaborate recreation of past happenings, gradual unveiling of secrets, new arrangements of sexual encounters. Meanwhile, they are searching for the meaning of their dreams, their urges, they want to connect to the one they lust for, examine their sexual urges, play with some Dom/sub interaction. Their sexual exploration, united with the pagan and religious explorations make for a very riveting and addictive read.
The book ends in a cliffhanger, and I really have no idea how this will end, after so many twists that I went though with this book. Loved it and am waiting impatiently for the sequel!
There are six characters in this story that are intricately involved, starting with an experience in a hidden chapel. Six kids go exploring through a maze in Thornchapel while their parents party in the mansion. They find a tunnel that leads to a chapel and have a spiritual experience that marks their souls forever. Twelve years later, Proserpina comes back to Thornchapel to catalog and inventory the library books. She has a hidden second purpose, which is to investigate her mother’s disappearance years ago and which she thinks is linked to Thornchapel. There she finds Auden, who is now the owner of the estate, Delphine who is now his fiancée and Rebecca, who is working with Auden in the remodel of the estate and grounds. Beckett is a frequent weekend visitor and is now a priest assigned to a nearby church. St. Sebastián lives in the village nearby but is an outcast, now an enemy of Auden.
Each character has secrets in their past, a hidden lust for one of characters in the group, and as a whole, have unresolved issues. Auden, Beckett, St. Sebastián and Proserpina have struggles with dreams and feelings about what happened twelve years ago. This book develops into a fantastic elaborate recreation of past happenings, gradual unveiling of secrets, new arrangements of sexual encounters. Meanwhile, they are searching for the meaning of their dreams, their urges, they want to connect to the one they lust for, examine their sexual urges, play with some Dom/sub interaction. Their sexual exploration, united with the pagan and religious explorations make for a very riveting and addictive read.
The book ends in a cliffhanger, and I really have no idea how this will end, after so many twists that I went though with this book. Loved it and am waiting impatiently for the sequel!