Literaria: Reap a HARVEST OF SIGHS

Hi, book buddies :-) Have you ever been addicted to a twisted tale? The Thornchapel series is it for me.

HARVEST OF SIGHS
(Thornchapel #3) by Sierra Simone

Release Date: May 1st

Designer: Hang Le Image: Vania Stoyanova

Models: Shacori Valentine & Keira Leilani
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MY OPINION

One of my most anticipated books of 2020. This series is like an addiction. Unforgettable and infectious.

By now, you must know this is not for the morally squeamish and haters of kink. We are drowning in sin here :-D

The previous book ended with a cliffhanger that felt earth-shattering. And I couldn't imagine how the characters would survive it. It feels like sacrifice is paramount in this series. Everyone sacrifices something on altars of stone and heart.

Poe and Saint and Auden are inseparable in this book despite the events that threaten to push them apart. In threes or twos, they offer amazing portrayals of lust, love, and torment. Proserpina and the priest together are heavenly, too. I have a weak spot for Becket with his ardent divinity and his unrequited love.

Delphine and Rebecca explore their passionate relationship against former animosity and social frowns, but it is their inner storm that poses a tableau of excruciating and bittersweet pain. Can they love each other freely or their inhibitions are too hopeless? I loved Delphine's vulnerability and her need for true love. I was deeply moved by the consequences of her trauma and how they were depicted. Despite my other preferences of characters, they present a captivating beckon.

The beauty of these words is insurmountable, painful and riveting. It is also inextricably immoral and primitively sacred.

The vividness of the prose rivals the plot of twisted sensuality and ancient curses. The characters sway between craving what they cannot renounce beyond reason and denying themselves the raw, frightening need of love.

A deluge of despair marks the atmosphere of this third novel, never in detriment of the festival of carnal scenes where all characters find both torment and endless pleasure. For a while, I missed the mysticism that was so pervading in the other books. Luckily, it has a very foreboding comeback towards the last part. It is then that revelations from the past blend with ritualistic prophecies and every character's arc explodes in the most hedonistic, hurtful, poetic way.

I felt so sorry and torn for all of them, how cruel the twists seem to hit my beloved boys and girls. Yet the outcome of the season was inevitable, and a little shortsighted for a couple of them not to see that they were welcoming the serpent into their lustful paradise. Alas, summer had to end with a fearful bang, oh my, it did.

This Wuthering Heights saturated with Saturnalia should be a dark classic.

WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?

The genius and the sunshine girl. As children, we fought bitterly and often, bickering every chance we got.

But then we grew up.

Then we came back.

Delphine Dansey carries her heart on the outside of her body; she’s looking for love and chasing dreams. She’s spoiled and selfish, the kind of beautiful that’s made for money and fame. But somehow she’s ended up in my keeping: a pretty submissive I can’t seem to resist, a lover who obsesses and tempts me.

I thought I’d locked my heart away a long time ago, along with all my other weaknesses. But some doors won't stay closed, no matter how hard I fight to keep them shut. She unravels me, just like our friends are unraveling, just like Thornchapel itself is unraveling.

All year long, we’ve been sowing lust and jealousy and pain, heedless of the consequences. But a harvest is inevitable, and so now we must reap our sorrows.

And our sighs.

*Harvest of Sighs is Book Three in the Thornchapel series.*

WHERE TO FIND IT

Amazon: sierrasim.one/kindlesighs

Amazon Universal: mybook.to/harvestofsighs

Apple Books: sierrasim.one/applesighs

Nook: sierrasim.one/nooksighs

Kobo: sierrasim.one/kobosighs

START THE SERIES TODAY WITH

A LESSON IN THORNS (Thornchapel #1)

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2OgiJGp

Amazon INTL: mybook.to/ALIT

B&N: http://bit.ly/2UO1VsN

Apple Books: https://apple.co/2HJxKiI

FEAST OF SPARKS (Thornchapel #2)

Amazon US: http://mybook.to/feastofsparks

Amazon INTL: http://mybook.to/feastofsparks

Apple Books: https://sierrasim.one/iSparks

Nook: sierrasim.one/NookSparks

Kobo: sierrasim.one/KoboSparks

ABOUT THE MASTERMIND

Sierra Simone is a USA Today Bestselling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk.) She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.