Goodreads synopsis below

“Once upon a time, six children stumbled upon a wild place hidden deep in the moors, shrouded by secrets and fog. There we played a game among the roses and the thorns that would change us forever, that would follow us the rest of our lives. A game that ended with a hard kiss in the rain and tattered flower petals fluttering from above…

And twelve years later, we’re back.  

The heir.
The dreamer.
The priest.
The genius.
The socialite.
The saint.

I’m not going to dream of a forgotten place covered in thorns every night.
I won’t be enchanted by Thornchapel and its glossy, glamorous people. I’m not going to fall in love or have my heart torn in two.

I’m not telling the truth. 

Because as this place slowly tightens its coil of secrets and thorns around us, as we uncover the knotted mysteries that grow here, the six of us begin to unravel into filthy, holy pleasure and pain.  Fulfilling the promise we once made as children in those whispering ruins, and awakening a fate that will either anoint us or leave us in ashes…”

Review below/spoiler warning

Wow what can I say about this book, this is what I would describe a smutty sexy dark romance novel about a group of friends that all come back to this Manor which is very special to them since childhood and also to all their parents, our main protagonist Poe throughout this book gets sent a letter with just one word in latin from thorncastle manor and is sent by her mother who  disappeared a long time ago and so once  she sees this letter it sends her down a spiral of leading her back to  the place where her mother was last seen/ a significant factor throughout the lives of all the 6 friends that all get sent back to the manor for a unknown reason that soon unravels as the novel goes on. 

this book definitely has a slower introduction into the steamy business but once it does wow it takes you on a wild ride of some of the smuttiest stuff I have read about so much action I think if I was reading this in public I would be blushing and going as red as a tomato.

this novel has BDSM, m/m, f/f and also m/m/f sex scenes throughout the book and just the diversity alone in the sexual orientations of the book is just amazing to see and yess to more scenes with two women and two males.

the characters in this book,I enjoyed some and some were just not my cup of tea such as my faves were definitely the main three (I would call them) Poe, Saint and Auden because I loved the sexual tension between these three throughout the book and some of the scenes they get up to. it was like Sierra was teasing us until we finally got there and it was just… The character the most that I was just wasn’t really connecting to/like that much in certain parts was Delphine, don’t get me wrong she has some interesting parts In this book but overall I jus thought she was unlikeable (in my opinion).

I did like learning about a little bit of each persons backstory about what happened before this point in each of their lives and was really cool to get a prologue of all the characters as teenagers and seeing how Thorncastle connected them all.  a trigger warning for you is that there is a section in this book that brings up the topic of abuse that happened to one of the characters which doesn’t get shown in this book but does get brought up In a conversation.

overall I very much enjoyed this book and so excited to know that there is a second book coming out soon so looking forward to carrying on this story with the  characters and what other information comes out of the woodworks. very intrigued.

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