Spring
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
My heat rose as I listened to the sound that our bodies made, the slap of damp skin on leather, the low humming growl she made in her throat, the scraping of my fingernails clutching the furniture.
To Moana Irving, the rediscovery of the Ball seems impossible. Lonely and lost, working in the wings of an English theater, she obsessively recounts the heat and sensuality of the memorable event—a night of unharnessed sexual release and exploration. Feeling ignored by her best friend, Iris, and disconnected from the rest of the world, Moana throws herself into mad nights of forced rapture, pushing away the regret that always overcomes her immediately after.
But Moana and the Ball are linked in ways she is yet to realize, and hints and whispers about the grand fête follow her persistently. When she uncovers a long-hidden secret about Iris’s family in the underbelly of the theater—a story of heaving passion and loss, and the secret birth of a child—the Ball becomes even more irresistible, promising Moana and Iris answers rooted in excitement and pleasure, and offering them a chance to belong to the grandest gala of them all.
Spring is the 3rd book in the Pleasure Quartet, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jackson's third Pleasure Quartet novel comes as a disappointment after its more satisfying predecessor, Winter. It is overblown erotica, from the yonic iris on its cover to the narrative of two young women's lives forever changed by the Ball, a legendary, secretive orgy. Moana and Iris, best friends and lovers, attend the event after a recommendation from Iris's grandmother Joan, who was once linked to the Ball. After Joan's death, they follow her advice to move from New Zealand to a tiny London flat. Iris devastates Moana by taking up with a wealthy young man who sees the submissive in her that Moana missed. Moana follows a more dissatisfied trajectory when she discovers Joan's diaries from the 1920s 40s in which she chronicled her work as a prostitute, a career she reluctantly took on due to financial need and decides to use them as a sexual blueprint. Though the diaries are the book's most intriguing aspect, Moana's use of another woman's coerced experiences as a template manages to be lurid and decidedly unsexy.
