Feast of Sparks by Sierra Simone (Thornchapel # 2)

Romance. Occult. Spicy. Adult. 

Rating: 3.5/5

Pages: 436

Started: 23 July 2022

Finished: 25 July 2022

Summary:

   After the success of their first ritual, the six decide they want to recreate another one, this time for May Day. But while Poe’s decision that she will only be with Auden and St. Sebastian after they forgive each other is going well, sending them into their shared past and pain, the six are also starting to realize the history around Thornchapel and it’s rituals is more complex than they previously believed, and more dangerous. 

Thoughts:

   While struggling to care about the chemistry all that much in this book, I enjoyed it for how much the book taught me. Simone’s writing is beautiful, and she knows so much about so many different things. I’m not enamored with this series, but I think I’ll continue reading it just to see how it ends.

Words:

   Cerement (n) waxed cloth for wrapping a corpse

   Effusive (adj) expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner

   Voltaic (adj) relating to electricity produced by chemical action in a battery

   Susurration (n) whispering, murmuring, or rustling

   Tor (n) a hill or rocky peak

   Epicure (n) a person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink

   Patrician (n) an aristocrat or nobleman

   Missish (adj) affectedly demure, squeamish, or sentimental

   Prosaic (adj) having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty   Brownian 

   Shibboleth (n) a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important

   Profligate (adj) recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

   Recusant (n) a person who refused to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation

   Dulcified (v) sweetened

   Thane (n) (in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble

   Shirty (adj) irritable; querelous 

   Suppurate (v) undergo the formation of pus; fester

   Verdigris (n) a bright bluish-green encrustation or patina formed on copper or brass by atmospheric oxidation consisting of basic copper carbonate

   Entropy (n) lack of order or predictability