Christmas gifts aren’t the only surprises Ginny is going to get this year.
Moonstone Guinevere ‘Ginny’ Miles is in Silver Springs visiting her parents for the holidays. They moved to the town five years ago, and adore their new life here. Used to the hustle and bustle of London, England, Ginny isn’t convinced at first—what’s so great about a small town in Upstate New York, anyway? Despite her own opinions, it’s clear to Ginny the move has done her parents the world of good—they look years younger. There’s clearly something magical about this town.
Following some exploration of her own, Ginny discovers Silver Springs has its charms—Jewels Cafe is amazing, for starters, as is its pumpkin spice latte. Ginny’s drunk a lot of lattes in her thirty-three years, but nothing quite like this.
Her taste buds are still tingling from the tasty treat when she comes across a broken-down truck on the way back to her parents’ place. And when she spots the three gorgeous guys with the vehicle, it’s not just her taste buds that are tingling.
Is Ginny’s vacation in Silver Springs about to get a whole lot more interesting?
Moonstone is a contemporary reverse harem romance. It is part of the Jewels Cafe series.
Lucy Felthouse is the award-winning author of erotic romance novels Stately Pleasures (named in the top 5 of Cliterati.co.uk’s 100 Modern Erotic Classics That You’ve Never Heard Of), Eyes Wide Open (winner of the Love Romances Café’s Best Ménage Book 2015 award), The Persecution of the Wolves, Hiding in Plain Sight, Curve Appeal, and The Heiress’s Harem and The Dreadnoughts series. Including novels, short stories and novellas, she has over 175 publications to her name. Find out more about her and her writing at http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk/linktree
From the gloomiest Christmas of the previous book to a Christmas explosion of family cheer and snow ins. No magic apart from a PSL that sounds more like an aphrodisiac. This time the story is limited to Ginny, her parents and three guys in one house. A Christmas feel good story with no drama and a family that really like christmas.
if you've begun following Jewels Cafe, then Moonstone is a must!! Ginny is a British babe that visits her parents in Silver Springs (where they "retired" 5 years ago). then a blizzard, broken down truck, 3 stranded guys, and a PSL from the Cafe .... well, just get this one
And as if I hadn't read enough cute and short stories yet, I thought that one more couldn't hurt. This one was also free for a limited time and it was also on my wishlist for quite some time already. I think this was the first of the series where I really had never read or seen a synopsis, so I had literally no idea what this was gonna be about.
But I was not disappointed! This was a cute contemporary love story and the first thing that stood out to me was how rich and well done the descriptions were. I got a very good sense of Ginny's life in London, of the town of Silver Springs, of her parents and their place and of the guys she ran into. This made everything and everyone so vivid and real. I really loved it and now I really wanna check out the other books written by Felthouse.
The three boys were also very cute and very different. Felthouse really did her best to give all three boys equal attention. I'm not sure if that worked out, but at least I got the feeling that we get to know all three of them at least a little. Felthouse really thought about their backgrounds and personalities and their short moments of talking with Ginny and really bonding with her are quite nice.
And then there's Ginny herself. Although this is just a brief story and there's for sure a lot more tell about her, I did get a clear feel of her and who she was. It was also easy to like Ginny. She felt really human, had some flaws and was insecure, but she asked all the right questions. I also liked her struggling with her feelings and emotions, thinking of the well being of others, like the friendship between the three boys and what picking one could do to them.
Like I said, I'll for sure check out more books by this author. This short was really well done and I'd love to see what the author can do with a full length novel.
So, I'm not going to hate on it. But, seriously, I love Why Choose romances, but this wasn't so much a winter-wonderland-why-choose romance as a fast a very cold, very weird insta-lust story.
This is more about a woman, for no reason, getting insanely horny when visiting her parents and the three guys that decide they're besties enough to hit it together and not get jealous of each other.
The ending is, maybe, HFN... but it might not even be that? idk
This was a great book to read for Christmas. You meet Moonshine aka Ginny in this book. She is traveling from London to be with her parents for the holidays. So while She is in Silver Springs and stops at Jewels Cafe, well You know what happens there. PSL, happens. Anyways he parents own a retreat in Silver Springs. Kai, Landon and Trent happen to break down by the retreat. So what happens, everything just gets interesting! There is a pull between these four that Ginny can feel. Since the guys don't know anyone they are reluctant to stay at the retreat. As you read, you get to know everyone and fall in love with them. Before I knew what happened the book ended. I loved that I got sucked away in this book. The only thing I wished was that I got an epilogue with what happens with them all. Other than that, it was a great book.
This is a really great story for Christmas. This is a short fun read with excellent characters. I really liked the connections between and characters and how unique they were from each other.
I am voluntarily leaving an unbiased, honest review.
Ah from the UK Moony otherwise known as Ginny visits her parents and a blizzard happens. She finds three guys from the town over and invites them at the b&b her parents own. Now what happens after a psl? I loved how they meet and not all the guys are charming right away. The frost is there.
I've been reading the jewels cafe books and they are great! This is another great story I love how they all interconnect in the same world with multiple authors and flow together so nicely!
A fun Non Paranormal addition to the Silver Springs family.
I listened to Moonstone and the narrator did a great job! Her fun British voice gave a lighthearted, believable feel to this novel. I have read other stories in the Silver Springs universe and was mildly surprised that this one features all human (non paranormal) characters. Lucy did a great job with the premise of this book and I didn’t find that the loss of the supernatural was an issue. I enjoyed the quirky characters and lush descriptions in this slow burn romance. If she decides to continue their story I will be reading it.
I loved this book just as much as the others in this series. I've always enjoyed books that include the holidays and this one was right up there. It was a fun little read and I'd recommend it to anyone.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This was a sweet story of chance that ends with a potential true love connection. I loved the guys especially as they all had unique personalities in comparison to each other. I would love to see how Ginny and her guys' relationship progresses in the future!
Cute addition to the collection of books in this series. A trip home and a snow storm leads to a Christmas that moonstone "Ginny " will never forget.
While I like the snowed in concept for the story I felt as though the book focused more on the relationship between the FMC and the parents. Their relationship is super sweet and I love her dad. I would have liked more relationship building with the guys she was interested in. The guys in the book seemed pretty hot but overall cute holiday story.
This book was a short but sweet read with enough spice for a dash of H.O.T. loving. The story almost had an 'old world' type feel to me where, with some exceptions, it could have been set in any decade in the last 50 years, and I really enjoyed the change of pace/setting from other novels I've recently read. The MFCs personal development also provided just as much focus as her developing relationships and I can't wait to see where their story goes next as I feel it was left on a small cliffhanger.
*I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.*
This book was sweet small town romance with a touch of steam. Quirky parents, magical properties in the latte, 3 handsome hunks and a Christmas they won't forget.
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Mooney arrives in Silver Springs to visit her parents for Christmas. A little shopping in the town results in drinking one of those famous pumpkin spice lattes! Three handsome strangers then get stuck in the snow and have to spend Christmas with Mooney and her family. Attraction grows, and this sweet story unfolds into a sweet Christmas romance.
Oh, I FLOVE christmas even more after this! I really loved the attention to detail, the tradition and the flow of this delight! It helped that there was plenty of sexiness, of course, but you already had my attentions. Great read.
Another tasty bite at the Cafe, with a more interesting backstory than some of the others and a hot quartet of guys for the heroine. Standalone but still part of the Jewels Cafe series. Ginny's story is absorbing and leaves you wondering about what came next.
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If this is what it's like to get snowed-in on Christmas Eve with some hunkie hunks....then sign me up!
Such a sweet, Christmas story that leaves you feeling warm and toasty --someone go and find me a set of guys, hot springs and quiet time...I've got some catching up to do!
I really enjoyed this story in the Jewels Cafe series. The usual pumpkin spice latte is up to matchmaking yet again. This time it's a contemporary romance. Everyone is human, but even those can't escape the magic latte.
It's a a wonderful Christmas story that makes you warm and fuzzy on the insides. Well at points in the story it's scorching hot!!!
Ginny lost her job in London so she flew to New York to spend Christmas with her parents. After drinking a pumpkin spice latte in town she meets Trent, Kai and Landon who are broke down at the end of her parents drive. She has an undeniable attraction to all three men and them to her that they can’t resist. The guys get stranded there because of a snowstorm and boy does it heat rise between Ginny and her guys. Fun and sweet
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Wonderfully fantastic... The book was amazing... It had a lot of details and juicy scenes to it... The characters and their personalities match them perfectly... The plot and the storyline was very descriptive and amazing... "I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book."
I actually read this as part of the Silver Springs ARC team and am fortunate enough to get an audio copy now. I love how this narrator brings the book and these characters to life. Visiting her parents stateside from England for the holidays Moony meets three handsome strangers who get stranded in a blizzard and the magic of Silver Springs and the Christmas season surrounds them all.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review. *this review is based on the audio version of this read.
This book spent so much time on Ginny’s relationship with her parents. There is definitely a need for more RH heroines with loving, supportive families, but maybe not a short story, or at least not to this extent. I listened to the audio version so I am not entirely sure how long it took, but I think it was well beyond the 40% point that we even meet the guys. At one point I had to pause it and make sure this was part of the Jewels Café series, I was so perplexed.
The story itself isn’t bad, though rather forgettable, especially because the magical element that connects the series is missing from this book. Oh, to be sure, the PSL affects her but it could just as easily have been replaced with a random aphrodisiac for all the effect it had. At least the guys were fine, except for the part where they feel as an afterthought to the story.
On a more personal level, I didn’t care for all the needless minutiae that seems to exist for no more reason than to pad the word count, nor the boring need for condoms. In another setting I would be happy to see characters being responsible, but in a story that already set out to ignore the magical element that is key to the town it is set in & places far more attention on the heroine’s parents than her lovers, this little bit of realism felt like rubbing salt on a wound. There are more convenient forms of birth control romance heroines regularly use, why ignore them and go for the incredibly boring choice?
Still, for all I complain, I did mostly enjoy it. It is a short story, perfect to listen while cooking and doing a few other chores. Ignoring the weird lack of focus on the harem, this book wasn’t enough to turn me off from Lucy Felthouse’s writing, and I am happy to give a chance to more of her work in the near future.
I think the story line & characters were good but I guess Harem style stories are not my cup of tea. I keep trying but its not working for me. This author did a great job with drawing you into the story.
Moonstone is a cozy, lighthearted, reverse harem romance with small-town and Christmas vibes.
Ginny has recently been laid off from her job in London, England, and decides to take this time to travel to the small town in New York where her parents moved five years prior. Ginny quickly falls in love with the small town, specifically Jewel's Cafe, with their pumpkin spice latte and the hot springs just outside of her parents' property. On her way back from exploring the town and its surroundings, she stumbles upon three gorgeous young men having vehicle trouble just outside of her parents' resort. The weather worsens, leaving the three men stranded with Ginny and her parents on Christmas Eve. The group makes the best of the situation while Ginny feels almost a magical pull toward all three of the men.
Moonstone is an enjoyable audiobook to listen to for the holidays. Ella was a great narrator. She didn't try too hard while narrating the male characters, which I appreciated. Ginny was realistic. She didn't immediately trust the men, yet she was kind enough to offer them warm drinks while they attempted to figure out their car troubles. I was expecting more of a magical vibe. The only magical feeling was the pull that Ginny had to the three men and maybe the magical feel of Christmas. While I did enjoy this book, I feel like it is one I will easily forget as there was nothing that really popped for me and caught my attention.
If you're looking for a quick, contemporary romance with some spicy bits to read during the holidays, this might be the book for you.
christmas • contemporary romamce • cozy romance • reverse harem • small town
Fun, Sexy and Damn Hot! I loved this light-hearted and sexy novella penned by Lucy Felthouse, which is full of seasonal fun and magic. The heroine, Ginny, is visiting her parents in the US town Silver Springs, when trudging through the snow on her way back from town she comes across a broken down truck. She is instantly bowled over by not one but three sexy men. For some unexplained reason her hormones are on overdrive after drinking a pumpkin spice latte at Silver Springs’ Jewels Café, recommended to her by her loveable and quirky matchmaking parents. The scene is then set for some serious love action and some sizzling scenes! This reverse harem novella is just the ticket if you are after a fun-loving erotic romance with all the feels. It is set during the Christmas holidays and I felt that this added to my enjoyment of the read as the warmth Ginny and her parents feel for each other was a lovely backdrop to the passion between Ginny and her trio of gorgeous men friends. The trio are equally enamoured with Ginny from the off – they are more than willing to share, and are not shy of letting her know their intentions. All three men have different personalities and I was left feeling that Ginny is one lucky girl to have them all to herself! I am off to google the recipe for pumpkin spice latte! Perfect for fans of erotic romance and fun and loving reverse harem reads. Please note that a copy of this book was given to me by the author and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
This was my first book I have listened (or read) from the Silver Springs shared world and it definitely piqued my interest enough to check out the others that are on audio! I have read other books by Lucy but I think this is my favorite so far actually haha. I thought it was adorable and I really enjoyed the MC (Moony hehe) and her guys! I kinda wish we had a sequel to check back in with them, not gonna lie haha. So I absolutely adored her relationship with her parents and how they were so welcoming with the guys bad predicament on Christmas Eve/Christmas. I imagine her and her dad to be like the popular TikTok account with a British dad and daughter and the dad being a goober and being so funny and the daughter laughing and encouraging him haha. All the antics from this book made me imagine them doing it, a refreshing listen after some more serious audiobooks I had listened to.
I am into the listen know it was a holiday/fluffier piece and I loved every second of it. It was exactly what was advertised and was done in a good way. I think my only critique would the narration wasn't always 100% strong by Ella when it came to the main guys and their various accents/personalities. I had a tough time trying to figure out where the guys were from (their accents kept changing). So I would give the story a 5/5 and the narration a 4-4.5/5.
I definitely recommend if you want a palate cleanser from more serious RH stories and need some giggle and smiles in your life ❤️
Fun series of stand alone books in a shared universe with a little bit of character cross over.
Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books...
1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future.
2 stars... This book was not very good, and I won't be reading any more from the author.
3 stars... This book was ok, but I won't go out of my way to read more, But if I find another book by the author for under a dollar I'd pick it up.
4 stars... I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be on the look out to pick up more from the series/author.
5 stars... I loved this book! It has earned a permanent home in my collection and I'll be picking up the rest of the series and other books from the author ASAP.