The series reading order is:
The Siren (The Original Sinners #1 – The Red Years #1)
The Angel (The Original Sinners #2 – The Red Years #2)
The Prince (The Original Sinners #3 – The Red Years #3)
The Mistress (The Original Sinners #4 – The Red Years #4)
The Saint (The Original Sinners #5 – The White Years #1)
The King (The Original Sinners #6 – The White Years #2
The Virgin (The Original Sinners #7 – The White Years #3) – expected publication 31 March 2015
The Queen (The Original Sinners #8 – The White Years #4) – expected publication late 2015
You can also download lots of novellas related to the series on my original The Original Sinners or The Last Good Knight posts. There is also another interview with Tiffany Reisz on my The Saint page.
Here you can find the synopsis and my reviews for The Saint and The King. Note that book #7 The Virgin will be about Eleanor becoming Nora AND about Kingsley finding Juliette. It will be released 31 March 2015 and when it is I will update this page.
Also coming soon is The 2014 Original Sinners Christmas short story which stars Michael and Griffin and is called “Christmas in Suite 37A”.
The Saint Book Synopsis
In the beginning, there was him.
Gutsy, 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 Søren Stearns and his lust-worthy Italian motorcycle is an epiphany. Suddenly, daily Mass seems like a reward, and her punishment is the ache she feels when they’re apart. He is intelligent and insightful and he seems to know her intimately at her very core. Eleanor is consumed—and even she knows that can’t be right.
But when one desperate mistake nearly costs Eleanor everything, it is Søren who steps in to save her. She vows to repay him with complete obedience…and a whole world opens before her as he reveals to her his deepest secrets.
Danger can be managed—pain, welcomed. Everything is about to begin.
Add on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19311457-the-saint
My Review
I can’t 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 you’ve read the first 4 books in The Original Sinners series. This one is a phenomenal 6 stars!
The King Book Synopsis
Cunning. Sex. Pure nerve. Only this unholy threesome can raise him to his rightful place as a ruler of Manhattan’s kink kingdom.
Bouncing from bed to bed on the Upper East Side, Kingsley Edge is brilliant, beautiful and utterly debauched. No carnal act or chemical compound can relieve his self-destructive heartache—only Søren, the one person he loves without limit or regret. A man he can never have, but in whose hands Kingsley is reborn to attain even greater heights of sin.
Kingsley’s plan to open the ultimate BDSM club—a dungeon playground for New York’s A-list—becomes his obsession. His expertise in domination can’t subdue the one man who wants to stop him. The enigmatic Reverend Fuller won’t rest until King’s dream is destroyed, and so the battle lines are set; it’s one man’s sacred mission against another’s…
Add on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19233301-the-king
My Review
I thought this book was absolutely amazing. The author Tiffany Reisz has an ability to make people jump to life on the page. I could not put this book down! I LOVED it! Each book in this series just get better and better. I think it’s probably because we get to know the characters so well. Just when you think you know all you need to know about Kingsley a new full length novel about his life is released. All of the pieces of the puzzle are slowly being put together.
This book focuses mainly on Kingsley who we have gotten to know and love over the past 5 books. I loved how we find out why he dresses like he does and the history behind The 8th Circle club. His history is so interesting and his desire to be a father shows throughout the book. We also find out more about Søren which is always interesting. We get glimpses of him meeting Eleanor with Søren introducing her into their lives. This is a must read book for fans of the series. I can’t wait for the next instalment.
This is what Tiffany Reisz imagines Kingsley looks like so I had this picture in my head the whole book. It’s another 6 star amazing book from this series!
About the Author
Tiffany Reisz lives with her boyfriend (a reformed book reviewer) and two cats (one good, one evil). She graduated with a B.A. in English from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and is making both her parents and her professors proud by writing BDSM erotica under her real name. She has five piercings, one tattoo, and has been arrested twice.
When not under arrest, Tiffany enjoys Latin Dance, Latin Men, and Latin Verbs. She dropped out of a conservative southern seminary in order to pursue her dream of becoming a smut peddler. Johnny Depp’s aunt was her fourth grade teacher. Her first full-length novel THE SIREN was inspired by a desire to tie up actor Jason Isaacs (on paper). She hopes someday life will imitate art (in bed).
If she couldn’t write, she would die.
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Email Blog Interview by Karina Cooper
Yesterday the lovely and talented Karina Cooper asked me to be part of a blog series on writing process. So here goes…my writing process. Pay attention. I’ll only blog this once.
1. WHAT AM I WORKING ON NOW?
Right now I’m editing THE KING. I turned in the first final draft (writers will know what I mean by ‘first final’) in January. That’s the draft you send your editor after you’ve fixed it as much as you and your beta readers can. Now it’s July and I have my first final draft back with my editor’s notes. She’s asked for more suspense which inspired me to do a mass overhaul on the book. When I give the book back to her, it’ll be at least 20% different. That six month break between turning in a book and getting it back from my editor is vital to my writing process. That long stretch of time when the book is off my mind lets me re-read it with new fresh eyes. I can see the flaws I couldn’t see before. Plus I’ve started writing the next book in the series and have enough of it finished that I can tie the two books together with a few choice lines of dialogue or other little hints of what’s to come.
2. HOW DOES MY WORK DIFFER FROM OTHERS IN THE GENRE?
I don’t know. I don’t read much erotica or erotic romance. I think the only glaring difference is that my books are more like urban fantasy than erotic romance. I have the same cast of characters who show up in every book, an alpha heroine with almost magic powers, and the books are plot-heavy relying on outside events more than building relationships. Not every single book has a happy-ever-after. Sometimes I make you wait a few books for a resolution.
3. WHY DO I WRITE WHAT I DO?
It was an accident. The original version of THE SIREN wasn’t erotica. It was erotic women’s fiction with a literary fiction bend. There wasn’t much sex in the book although the sex that was in the book was fairly explicit. My agent said I could do two things with the book–add more plot or add more sex. I did both. The result was a book that would fit best in the erotica category. Since book one in the series was erotica, I had to continue make the rest of the books in the series erotic. I never planned on being an erotica writer although I love it and have no regrets.
Future books from me will likely take me back to women’s fiction, commercial fiction, and other genres I want to explore–fantasy and Southern Gothic. The BDSM is the Original Sinners is only there because Mistress Nora’s day job was a dominatrix. If she’d been a doctor or a lawyer instead of a dominatrix, kink wouldn’t be so central to the series. Kink isn’t the point of the Original Sinners anyway. I just use kink to explore human nature and ask the eternal questions of why we suffer and why we seek pain and why pain and suffering is often better for us than pleasure and happiness.
4. MY WRITING PROCESS
I don’t write everyday. Don’t listen to people who say you should write every single day. Sometimes you take a week off to read. Sometimes you take a week off to go to Miami and sit on a beach and dream new ideas. That’s all fine. But when I’m writing a book, I write like a motherfucker.
9-10am WAKE UP AND EAT BREAKFAST
10-12am TWEET AND ANSWER EMAILS
1pm LUNCH
2-6pm WRITE – Since moving to Portland I write at a park near our house that has a quiet meditation space. No WiFi there so I can get a ton of writing done. I’ve written 6000 words in a three hour span before. There’s something magical about having absolutely no access to the internet and I can finish a 110,000 word draft in six weeks. Then I give it to four to six beta readers and make changes based on their notes. I’ll send the final first draft to my editor. Six months later she gets it back to me with her suggestions. I make most of her suggestions plus do my own changes, which are usually extensive. The difference between the first final draft of THE SAINT and the final printed draft of THE SAINT is about 40%. Nico wasn’t in the first final, neither were the ashes or the frame story. The first final was 136,000 words long. The print version is 118,000 words long. I do massive revisions on every book, and if I don’t I feel like I’ve missed something.
Writing is so much more than typing. The story isn’t perfectly formed in your head. You’re not taking dictation from on high (although sometimes it can feel like that and those are the rare beautiful days when writing is a better high than any drug out there). You have to dig it out like you’re digging out dinosaur bones. You lay the bones out, and then and only then do you know what sort of dinosaur you have. Then you get the wire and the glue and you can put the skeleton together to make something awesome. For every 10,000 words I write, maybe 5000 get published. I delete a lot. I rewrite constantly. I am never married to anything in a draft until it’s in print. I deleted my favorite chapter from THE KING two days ago because it doesn’t fit into the new plot. C’est la guerre, as Kingsley would say. The new version will be better than the old. The old saying “The good is the enemy of the best” applies to your drafts. You might have a good scene, yes. But if you’re willing to rethink, delete, and rewrite, you could have a better scene.
Years ago I asked my favorite professor at my alma mater Centre College if he thought another student was going to make it as a writer. My professor (Dr. Mark Lucas) said yes, he thought so because that student threw a lot away. That’s the sign of a real writer, he said, not being too attached to your own words.
That student and I are now both international bestselling writers with major publishers. The best thing a writer who wants to make it big can do is be merciless with his or her own writing. Never settle for the good. Write for the best. Fight for the best.
Thanks, Karina! This was fun!
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