Genre: Erotic Romance/BDSM Fantasy

Publisher Loose-ID

80 pages

Purchase at Loose-Id $4.99

book given for review

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, beauty and the beast….Ok, I’ll stop now and put away my Belle Halloween costume. As you all may well know revisionist stories of one of my fav fairy tales makes me do the happy dance. Literally. Petals and Thorns is now my favorite beauty and the beast re-make of all time. Jennifer Paris weaves a vivid and cautionary tale of desire, seduction, some serious erotic naughty time and such colorful imagery, it’s as though the characters have actually come to life.

Paris does an excellent job of creating enough of a escapist fantasy that for those who don’t like to dabble in the dark side of BDSM can still enjoy the vivid imagery of the storytelling even if you do wince a bit at Amarantha’s sensually abused derrière.

If I had to pick one niggle I felt the Beast’s explanation on how he came to be was a bit rushed, as in the last few sentence and then boom the end.

This is a great erotic debut for this author and I for one can’t wait to read more!

Here’s a little taste…

The Beast slid back from the table and indicated that she should stand in front of him. Taking her by the waist, he lifted her to sit on the table. Drawing a silver chain from under the table‟s edge, he hooked it into a loop she hadn‟t noticed, sewn into the cuff just under the tender part of her wrist. The Beast drew the chain tight, pinning her hand to the table. He did the same with the other hand. Then he carefully swept her hair behind her shoulders so none of it hung forward.

Amarantha began to cry. “I‟m frightened,” she whispered.

“Are you? You know I won‟t harm you.”

“Do I know that?”

The Beast raised a gloved finger. Amarantha caught her breath. And gave a little cry when the cool leather touched her skin. With one fingertip, he traced concentric circles around and around her breast, coming ever closer to the nipple. Then stopped. He repeated the pattern on her other breast. Amarantha squirmed, tugging on the little silver chains. The Beast chuckled, then transferred to the other breast again. Incoherent whimpering sounds struggled out of her as he repeatedly tormented one breast, then the other. The music crashed and swelled around them, but the Beast never lost patience with his game. In the distance, the clock struck one.

The Beast seized her nipples in his gloved fingers and squeezed hard.

Amarantha screamed.

If you are looking for a vivid erotic tale of Beauty and the Beast, Petals and Thorns is a quick read that may fog up your Kindle screen. You’ve been warned.

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