Moonlit Thorns

Okay, this was excellent. It is a quick read, I think I clocked about 4 hours to read it.

As a beauty and the beast retelling, I really liked the nods to the original story. I won’t list them out so you can experience them for yourself, but I really did like them. They blended into the story so well, P. Rayne did an excellent job slipping them in there.

The spice? yes puh-lease! So so so good, I loved their dynamic and the progression of the spice through the books.

The general dynamic of Asher and Annabelle was perfection. Lots of “young innocent confused-but-attracted-to-the-grumpy-man vibes” from Annabelle, which worked perfectly for her character. Asher had a lot of “she is too young for me but I can’t resist so I must be cold to her” vibes, and it worked so well for his character.

Throw in 4 brothers who are billionaires, who get everything they desire, who do some shady things, and also mix in a sex club? Literally there is no way this story could be bad.

Quick note: I did wish there was some more plot, and there were several things I felt were a bit abrupt, BUT this is a shorter novel so it is exactly what you expect. It did not take away, I just wished for more!

Overall I loved Moonlit Thorns by P. Rayne. It was a great blend of the beauty and the beast story retold with modern times and a lot of spicy spice. Definitely would recommend for a quick and dirty enjoyable read! Can’t wait for book 2!

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

💰 Age Gap

🥀 Secret Society

💰 Dark Romance

🥀 Boss x Employee

💰 Fairytale Retellings

🥀 Billionaire Romance

𝑭𝑨𝑽𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬 𝑸𝑼𝑶𝑻𝑬:

“If you want to keep that hand, you’ll remove it from Miss Boudreaux right now.”

I was told ‘Beauty & the Beast retelling” and I said SIGN ME UP! What I did not expect was for Galen to annoy me more than Gaston ever did lol. The minute that man was introduced I already wanted him written off. Asher was getting on my last nerve but I quickly got over that. I will say that when it was mentioned that the Voss brothers had people coming to their mansion in unmarked vehicles once a month I thought it was something totally different from what it actually was and I was here for it. This was such a fun read for me, I could not stop reading, every chance I got I was picking up my iPad to read. Absolutely loved this book.

‼️ IF YOU WOULD RATHER GO IN BLIND, STOP READING HERE. ‼️

𝑻𝑾: Death, Death of parent (off page), Murder, Gun violence, Physical abuse (MMC’s father was abusive. Off page), Mention of suicide (off page), Depression, Knife play, Sex club, BDSM, Drug use (FMC was drugged at a bar), Attempted sexual assault (MMC got to them before the FMC could be assaulted)

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to P Rayne and Valentine PR for the ARC opportunity.

• dark/gothic
  - retelling (beauty and the beast)
  - billionaire
  - age gap
  - opposites attract
  - enemies to lovers
  - forced proximity
  - tortured hero
  - posessive
  - bdsm
  - steamy