Titles: The Saint by Tiffany Reisz
Release date: June 24th
About The Saint by Tiffany Reisz:
Before she became Manhattan’s most famous dominatrix, Nora Sutherlin was merely a girl called Eleanor…
Rebellious, green-eyed Eleanor never met a rule she didn’t want to break. She’s sick of her mother’s zealotry and the confines of Catholic school, and declares she’ll never go to church again. But her first glimpse of beautiful, magnetic Father Marcus Stearns—Søren to her and only her—and his lust-worthy Italian motorcycle is an epiphany. Eleanor is consumed—yet even she knows being in love with a priest can’t be right.
But when one desperate mistake nearly costs Eleanor everything, it is Søren who steps in to save her. When she vows to repay him with complete obedience, a whole world opens before her as he reveals to her his deepest secrets that will change everything.
Danger can be managed—pain, welcomed. Everything is about to begin.
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Review
Before the darkness…
Before the absolute obedience…
Before the dominatrix…
Before Nora…
There was 15 year old Eleanor whose life was not easy, and faith was not strong. It doesn’t sound like the beginning of a fairy tale, but then no one writes a dark fable like Tiffany Reisz. Many years before the siren, there was the saint, and even though most may see Soren as a sinner, to Eleanor, he is one to be worshipped and adored. He saved her when everyone else had washed their hands of her, and he led her down a path that ultimately sets her free.
The Saint, Book 1 of The White Years series, takes readers back to when Nora and Soren’s forbidden romance begins. It is a prequel to Reisz’s The Red Years Quartet and offers readers’ insights into Nora, Soren, and Kingsley’s pasts. It helps to solidify for readers the unlikely bond that the trio shares, and it dives into circumstances that helped to define each one of them.
When the story begins, Nora Sutherlin, our narrator, is in mourning, and she has run off to the Black Forest to regroup and spend some time alone, but she ends up entertaining a guest who wants to help her in any way that he can, and one way she is able to release some of her feelings is by telling her and Soren’s story. Told in a series of flashbacks that are intermixed with Nora’s present thoughts, feelings, and actions, readers get the full story behind Nora giving Soren obedience forever and Soren giving Nora everything.
So, I have to be honest…this is my first book of The Original Sinners series. Since I started reading erotica, I came across Tiffany Reisz’s name many times, and almost every reader/blogger comment said that she is a must read author. I honestly don’t know why I waited this long, but I can tell you one thing, in one book, I’ve realized how brilliant Tiffany is as a storyteller. Her writing is thought provoking, lyrical, witty, and highly entertaining. Readers cannot help but be seduced by her words and her characters.
For me, it all starts with the characters. I didn’t know Nora as Nora, so seeing her as Eleanor, a 15 year old girl who falls in love with her priest and embraces Soren’s sadist lifestyle was a bit overwhelming, in an utterly amazing way. Eleanor is a fantastic heroine. She’s feisty, funny as hell, and willing to push herself to ultimately get what she wants, which is Soren naked and inside her. Her relationship with Soren is extremely forbidden, but they both make it seem as if this is what God destined for them, and there’s no way for it not to happen.
Soren is definitely not what one would expect a priest to be. As readers learn about his childhood, it starts to make sense why his tastes are on the darker side of things. He thrives on pain and punishment; it’s what he needs to release his darkness. The fact that he prepares Eleanor for all that he is before he willingly takes her blew my mind. He protects her…he loves her…he wants to hurt her for her pleasure and his. Those actions don’t seem to go together, but nothing about Soren and Eleanor’s relationship is typical, so why should their intimacy be?
The Saint gives readers all of Soren and Eleanor’s firsts. It also provides us with Eleanor’s introduction to Kingsley and the BDSM lifestyle. It is filled with insights into who both Soren and Eleanor were to get them to the people we meet in The Siren.
I seriously couldn’t put this book down. I anticipated Soren and Eleanor’s first time together as much as she did because Tiffany Reisz deliciously built it up throughout the course of the entire text. This is forbidden romance at its finest, and now that I know their past, I can’t wait to see where their beginnings led them in The Red Years Quartet.
I may have waited too long to introduce myself to Tiffany Reisz’s writing, but now that I have, she’s definitely made a fan for the duration.
A complimentary copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.
5+ poison apples
About The Author:
Tiffany Reisz
Tiffany Reisz is the author of the highly acclaimed series The Original Sinners. Her first novel, THE SIREN, won the RT Editor’s Choice Award for Best Erotic Romance of 2012. Slightly shameless, Tiffany dropped out of a conservative Southern seminary in order to pursue a career as a writer. This move, while possibly putting her eternal salvation in peril, has worked out better than she anticipated. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her boyfriend, author Andrew Shaffer.
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