Helpful Score: 1
If you havent been following this series then stop reading right now and get yourself a copy of The Siren so you can have your own amusement park ride.
If you have been following the series then you know our lovely and notorious switch, Nora, was kidnapped moments after she accepted a marriage proposal from her beautifully vanilla BFF, Wes. Now, Soren (her sadist and her priest) and Kingsley (the king of the underground S&M scene) are in a serious hurry to fight the ghost of their past and get Nora home, safely.
This book is really a series of past exploits told by Nora to her captor while awaiting her fate. Interwoven with the past some of our favorite characters come out of the woodwork to help keep the present moving while they work together to get Nora back.
This whole series has taken its toll on me mentally and emotionally. Tiffany Reisz is as much a master of storytelling as Soren is master of his Little One and Kingsley. I really wanted to hate the characters, sometimes Nora most of all, but with each book, and each glimpse into their lives and pasts, I couldnt hate them. Sometimes I hurt for them, but with every page I related, understood and loved them all a little bit more.
While I enjoy a little bit of pain with my pleasure, I never understood the extremes in which the 3 main players go to feel and give pain with their pleasures. I never understood it until I finished the last book. I feel like my body, heart, mind and soul have been put through the paces. And although some of that was unpleasant, or hard to handle, I dont regret any of it. These books made me think, made me laugh, frustrated, confused and thoroughly aroused me.
Through the last 100 pages or so I felt like I sobbed nonstop. I have the photos of my puffy eyes this morning to prove it. Some tears were shed out of happy loving times, some out of desperate times, and some out of pain. But the raw emotion that she conjured with her written words quite frankly stole my breath at times. There is a scene at the end where Nora is so desperate to cling to a physical piece of sentiment that I could feel her heart and blood racing I could feel her panic, her love. The writing is that powerful.
This isnt an easy series to read with so much upheaval and controversy within the characters, their pasts, present and futures, it is taxing at time - as real life often is. But if you can handle all the ups and downs and just enjoy the ride that is the beauty of the storytelling the entire series, every page, is well worth the journey.
Cherise Everhard, September 2013
Book provided by and reviewed for the Amazon Vine Program
If you have been following the series then you know our lovely and notorious switch, Nora, was kidnapped moments after she accepted a marriage proposal from her beautifully vanilla BFF, Wes. Now, Soren (her sadist and her priest) and Kingsley (the king of the underground S&M scene) are in a serious hurry to fight the ghost of their past and get Nora home, safely.
This book is really a series of past exploits told by Nora to her captor while awaiting her fate. Interwoven with the past some of our favorite characters come out of the woodwork to help keep the present moving while they work together to get Nora back.
This whole series has taken its toll on me mentally and emotionally. Tiffany Reisz is as much a master of storytelling as Soren is master of his Little One and Kingsley. I really wanted to hate the characters, sometimes Nora most of all, but with each book, and each glimpse into their lives and pasts, I couldnt hate them. Sometimes I hurt for them, but with every page I related, understood and loved them all a little bit more.
While I enjoy a little bit of pain with my pleasure, I never understood the extremes in which the 3 main players go to feel and give pain with their pleasures. I never understood it until I finished the last book. I feel like my body, heart, mind and soul have been put through the paces. And although some of that was unpleasant, or hard to handle, I dont regret any of it. These books made me think, made me laugh, frustrated, confused and thoroughly aroused me.
Through the last 100 pages or so I felt like I sobbed nonstop. I have the photos of my puffy eyes this morning to prove it. Some tears were shed out of happy loving times, some out of desperate times, and some out of pain. But the raw emotion that she conjured with her written words quite frankly stole my breath at times. There is a scene at the end where Nora is so desperate to cling to a physical piece of sentiment that I could feel her heart and blood racing I could feel her panic, her love. The writing is that powerful.
This isnt an easy series to read with so much upheaval and controversy within the characters, their pasts, present and futures, it is taxing at time - as real life often is. But if you can handle all the ups and downs and just enjoy the ride that is the beauty of the storytelling the entire series, every page, is well worth the journey.
Cherise Everhard, September 2013
Book provided by and reviewed for the Amazon Vine Program
