The Siren (The
Original Sinners) Book Review
By: Tiffany Reisz
Amazon Description:
Notorious Nora Sutherlin is famous for her delicious works of erotica,
each one more popular with readers than the last. But her latest manuscript is different—more
serious, more personal—and she's sure it'll be her breakout book…if it ever
sees the light of day.
Zachary
Easton holds Nora's fate in his well-manicured hands. The demanding British
editor agrees to handle the book on one condition: he wants complete control. Nora must rewrite the entire
novel to his exacting standards—in six weeks—or it's no deal.
Nora's grueling writing sessions with Zach are draining…and
shockingly arousing. And a dangerous former lover has her wondering which is
more torturous—staying away from him…or returning to his bed?
Nora thought she knew everything about being pushed to your
limits. But in a world where passion is pain, nothing is ever that simple.
BOOK REVIEW
I actually finished this book
earlier this weekend. With that being said this book left with a I have no idea
what to say moment. I seriously needed to take a day to regroup and think about
the words on the pages I just read. Let
me apologize if as you read this review and its all over the place.That’s because
this book was all over the place LOL! The first thing I will say is this book
is NOT for the FAINT OF HEART. Honestly
going into this book I was expecting a BDSM, funny, romance…… BOY WAS I WRONG!!
What I got instead was PURE RAW EMOTION!
In the words of the book
itself….. “This is not a romance novel”…”
Zach
Nora one of the main
characters in this book is an erotic best selling author by day and a
Dominatrix by night. Despite being a best selling author already she wants to
be taken seriously in the world of writing and she has just the story for it. A
Story of a submissive/vanilla female and a DOM….BUT whose story is it she
trying to tell you ask??? (yup boy did I ever ask myself that). OK I assumed
the female character was her but who the heck was the male one!..... AND this is
were the twist and turns of this book begin.
OK let me slow down I'm getting
ahead of myself. Nora is a funny, chaotic/ life of the party, I like making you
feel uncomfortable type of girl. BUT on the inside as this book progresses we see Nora is BROKEN! Well she finally gets a
publishing company to take her new book seriously only the editor she got stuck
with is "THE LONDON FOG " (not making that up that's what they really call him at
work). Zach is a brilliant editor. He is
cranky and will rip your manuscript to pieces BUT he produces best sellers!
Zach only works with SERIOUS WRITERS so needless to say he isn't thrilled about
working with Nora. Zach as we soon see
has his on story hidden in the pieces of this book. He is separated from his wife Grace back in London
One of the supporting
characters in this book is Wesley (I LOVED HIM). He is Nora’s 18 year old live in
intern. This Boy is PURE i'm waiting until I get married/for the ONE, VANILLA! As this book continues to play out we learn his ONE is NORA. The cat
and mouse games these two sometimes play down right made me feel uncomfortable at times (seriously, no even joking). Wes knows about Nora’s
night job and it doesn't sit well with him. So needless to say the not so
subtle advances she makes towards him are met with THE HAND (as in back off). OH
Wesley the heart is a fragile thing, BUT the young heart oh man… (head
shakes!!).
Finally lets talk about
SOREN. This is the man that has BROKEN Nora in some many ways and
I mean BROKEN Literally. One word comes to mind when I think of him, BASTARD! Ok let me just say right now there were many
disturbing parts in this book to me (On so many Levels). Ok ill give you an
example…Soren was Nora’s Master/Dom since she was 15 (yes I said 15 and keep in
mind he’s older). While still being her DOM in all things DOM he made her wait
5 YEARS before they actually became LOVERS! His mind games with her were sometime down
right brutal to even read and some of the session/love scenes were down right
made me CRINGE (Literally). Despite, the mental and ya I’m going to say
physical abuse/punishment (whatever you want to call it) the LOVE Nora HAS for this man
is UNREAL! “Hurting Her Was His Privilege Alone”- NORA (my heart hurt for her so
many times)
This book showed the pure RAW
emotions of a BROKEN women and the BROKEN people that surrounded her in her
life. At times I liked this book and at times I Really didn't. I don’t think a
book has ever made me CRINGE until now. The BDSM lifestyle this book portrayed at
some times hit that blurry line of down right abuse in my mind (YUP CRINGE
MOMENTS)! The writing in this book was Good, hidden DEEP with in the pages of
this book you did get the sense of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. However, this book was just
a little to DARK for me.
Cheers,
Dr. Books
Book Rating:
The Writing B/ 4 maybe even 4.5
OVERALL: C/3.5
