Penthouse Prey (Primal Clulb) by Emma Castle-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 13, 2025
Welcome to the Primal Club where all your darkest fantasies come to life…
Quinn Huxley never expected to run into Devlin Rayburn, the boy who bullied her in high school, ever again. But twelve years later, he walks back into her life offering her the one thing she can’t refuse: one night with him and he’ll save her parents’ failing business.
All she has to do is come to the opening night of Devlin Rayburn’s private, elite penthouse club and play his little game. She thinks she can handle him, but the moment she steps into his glittering world and discovers what his game is, she’s trapped…by her own desire.
Run, little princess, run…
He will chase her, catch her and claim her until she forgets everything outside herself but him and the pleasure he can give her. But when the night is over, will either she or Devlin be able to walk away from each other?
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REVIEW:Penthouse Prey by Emma Castle is the first toe-tip into this author. While the novella is short, it sure as heck packs a punch. Check your trigger warnings before reading this, there are dark elements and no book is worth a person’s mental health.
We start our story off in a prep school of all things, Devlin and Quinn, two people so different but clearly drawn together. Devlin and his jerky goons make it their life’s mission to bully and overall destroy Quinn’s life. Quinn is the odd girl out from a poor family (compared to the others) who is attending the school on scholarship. One day, the goons take things too far and corner Quinn in the library. When things get crazy, it’s Devlin who comes to her rescue, even if it doesn’t look like it. From that moment on, she was his. She just didn’t know he was also hers.
Over a decade later Devlin returns, but it’s not to help her family, or bully Quinn. No he wants her for her, always has, always will. They make a deal for one night of primal play at Dev’s new club in exchange for his help with her family’s business. But little does Quinn know it’s not just for one night, he wants to lay the world at her feet. He wants to love her.
Penthouse Prey had me a little worried when I first started reading. CNC is a genre of writing that some authors can pull off better than others, and Ms. Emma can do it well. For a novella under 100 pages, I was pleasantly surprised with the characters and the writing style. It is mostly spicy scenes, but they are done well and the characters do have good chemistry. Overall, I am happy with the quick read.
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Reviewed by Sarah
