I know that so many of you are on #TeamSøren but I’m still kinda eyeing him warily. I find him both scary and fascinating… for me (at this point), I feel like he represents “too far” in this world. There’s Søren - the oh-so-mysterious, lethally Dominant priest who has been in Nora’s life since she was fifteen.

(Gah! I loved him so much!! *whispers* I think he’s my favorite!) To be honest, I think the hottest sex scenes were the ones that happened-but- didn’t-happen with him. There’s Wesley - her nineteen-year-old virgin intern who cares so deeply for this woman who is in almost every way his complete opposite. Suffice it to say that there’s a large cast of male characters around Nora. It would be hugely misleading to tell you that this is “what the story is about” and yet if I told you much more detail, it would take the thrill out of the story. And the story began to unfold. At this point, I’m torn.

“I don’t want to write this book any more than you want to read it.”Īnd he’s hooked… and so was I. What she writes is the furthest thing from the kind of books he’s passionate about and he wants nothing to do with her until he reads the first words of her book… He’s beyond reluctant to have anything to do with her. The story is infinitely complex but it begins with Zach, an editor at a major publishing house, who is given almost no choice but to work with a mysterious woman named Nora Sutherlin, an erotica writer whose books have been outselling his prize winning literary fiction novels. It was taboo and shocking at times, raw but extremely honest, very intricate and complex… It took me waaaay the hell out of my usual “reading comfort zone” but the characters, the writing, and the depth of the story have all hooked on this series and I will be starting the second book after writing this review because I NEED MORE!!! 😀 It’s an erotic BDSM world and while there was definitely strong love, it was NOT at all a traditional romance. I’ve been equally curious about and yet kinda scared to read it this whole time, unsure if it was something I’d like… but I’m honestly so glad that I read it because OMG… it was GOOD!!! The writing was amazing! The story though was very, verrryyy different than a lot of what I read. WOW!!! So, I finally worked up the courage to read this book that I have literally owned since mid-2012.

The siren by tiffany reisz