The Saint by Tiffany Reisz
Release date: June 24th
This is one of my all time favourite series! If you haven’t read any of the series yet, they need to be read in order, you can find my earlier posts on The Orignal Sinners series or my most recent post on The White Years. It is an amazing series! 🙂
Synopsis
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 StearnsSøren to her and only herand his lust-worthy Italian motorcycle is an epiphany. Eleanor is consumedyet 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 managedpain, welcomed. Everything is about to begin.
My Review
I cant say anything bad about this book because I loved the whole thing. It was great to go back and learn more about Eleanor (Nora) in her teenage years. It switched between the present day and when she was growing up but mainly told in the past. The earlier books in the series gave us Nora today, but this book focuses on what make her her. I loved the intertwining stories with Nico and the glimpses we get of him. I also love how we also get to know more about Søren and their early relationship. I highly recommend you read this book if youve read the first 4 books in The Original Sinners series. This one is a phenomenal 6 stars!
Exclusive Q & A with author Tiffany Reisz – She’s so cool!
- The question on everyones mind must be- did you have a gorgeous priest growing up that you based Søren on?
Easy answer. Nope. And I didnt read The Thorn Birds or watch the tv movie either although I was aware of it. When I was starting out in the BDSM scene, I was collared to a six-foot-four blond hardcore sadist. Now that might have something to do with it
- While Søren is significantly older than Eleanor, there are moments when she shows immense maturity (and certainly strength) as she learns of Sørens family secrets and his inner demons. Can you talk about that dynamic?
Yes, in The Saint Eleanor is very young (15 to 20). But shes also smart and madly in love. Young people are more open-minded and open-hearted than us crusty old adults. Eleanor sees Søren with eyes of love that cherish and accept and believe in him. As she gets older, her faith in him is challenged the way a believers faith in God is challenged by lifes disappointments. But at age seventeen, Eleanor is a firm believer in Søren, and when he tells her the truth about him, she responds like a true believer in the Biblewith all her heart and all her soul and all her mind.
- Eleanors naiveté and her submissive role in both Søren and Nicos life at times fits her personality, and at others seems to be a role she struggles with. Did you intend for this duality of character in her?
Shes not naïve at all with Nico. She sees exactly whats happening between them, which is why shes so reluctant to let him cross her threshold and come into her house and into her life. Shes suffering, however, and that pain makes her vulnerable. With Søren shes more young than naïve. She doesnt know much about the BDSM scene when she meets Søren when shes fifteen, but she instinctively understands that duality of pain, that pain can make her feel better. Sørens the one adult she believes in and that makes her vulnerable to being hurt and disillusioned when she discovers hes more than she thought he was. Her duality is born of her childlike-ness (not childish, but childlike in that she sees the entire world as her playground) and her intelligence, which she used to see through everyone elses masks and armor.
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