Name: The Virgin
ISBN: 9780778317975

Tiffany Reisz

Fearing S²ren and Kingsley will use their power and influence to bring her back, Eleanor takes refuge in her mother's convent, where a virginal novice takes her down a path of sexual awakening.

The Virgin

Anna Ureta

I KNEW IT!
 I knew it. After the shenanigans Author Tiffany Reisz pulled in The Saint, I knew this book wasn’t what I thought it would be. I was so excited and then I was like, “Nahhhh, it can’t be that easy.” I wish it was, but it wasn’t.
 For those who’ve read the book or series, you know what I’m talking about, for those who haven’t, that’s not a spoiler really, just an observation.
 I’m literally here almost shaking myself because I’m selfish and I WANT MORE SOREN! I love Nora and I love Kingsley and I love all of them! But…I think I love Soren just a little more! I’m sorry and ashamed of my affection but it’s true. I look up to Nora and to how brave she’s been and her courage, and to Kingsley for how strong his will in and his ambition. But Soren… I would let him do whatever he wanted to me just so I could know what it feels like to be in his arms. But I’m getting ahead of myself Reisz does not disappoint in the third installment of the White Years and takes us back into Nora and Kingsley’s past to a time without Soren.

There was a time when the Unholy Trinity weren’t together. Where things weren’t as happily ever after.
 That was the year everything changed.
 Soren had crossed a line and done something Eleanor never thought he’d do. In order to save herself she ran, ran far but not too far away. That was the year she spent away from Soren and Kingsley and took up residence in her mother’s convent.
 In order to protect her from Soren, Kingsley, feeling somewhat guilty with the way he handled the situation with Eleanor, decided to flee the country for a while so Soren wouldn’t be able to question him as to where she’d gone to. He traveled the world for a while until he ended up in Haiti. That’s where he met the beautiful Juliette, and it was there he fell in love and vowed he would do anything to have her as his own.

Eleanor, Kingsley, Eleanor, Kingsley, tsk, tsk, tsk.
 I just want to shake them both sometimes – even if what they did was really the best thing they could have done.
 It must have been hard leaving Soren and it must have been hard for Kingsley to leave both of them. But both of them had reasons for leaving and quite good reasons they were. It was at the convent where Nora found herself, and it was in leaving that Kingsley found a woman to love as his own.

“The face you show the world isn’t always your real face,” Elle said. “You can look at someone and think you know everything about them…but you don’t. We all have masks on. Or veils.”

Told in alternate perspectives between Eleanor and Kingsley, the book felt a little short for me for some reason. It just didn’t feel like it had a lot of substance or detail, especially because there was a lot of time in between from the time the book started to the end. Granted, a year was covered between both of them and so there had to be major time skips within that year to keep the book entertaining. I felt Kingsley’s story had more substance than Eleanor’s where she mostly just sat around before the interesting thing happened (which I won’t say because spoilers). But even after that thing happened it just didn’t seem like there was a lot of substance…. Maybe I’m just being picky, (I’m probably just being picky).

“No two people in history had Kingsley and Nora’s history. With everything they’d put each other through, they’d had two choices – hate each other or love each other. They were so much alike, hating each other would have been like hating themselves. And both of them were rather too self-important for that sort of nonsense.
 So they picked love.”

My one tiny comment, okay maybe two, is after all these books and after everything that’s happened, I want Nora and Nico to have a story of their own! They spent a lot of time together and I want to hear about that! But I haven’t read the last book so maybe it’ll be there… I am excited and anticipating the last book in the White Years, but sad that the story will be over – for now anyway. My second comment is that I’m a little sad that Soren didn’t get at least one chapter or so to himself to give the reader of what he was feeling when his Little One and his best friend left. I think it would have been interesting – seeing Soren grieve over them.

Reisz never ceases to amaze me with her captivating tales, how she pieces things together, how the story transitions, and how close of a bond all of her characters have. It’s quite a wonderful thing if you think about it – being friends/family with people you’ve known for twenty odd years and still be so close. That’s quite a bond and something we all would wish for. She continues to inspire me in my own work and I hope one day I could only be as magnificent as she (and Nora) are in telling stories.

Now if only I could be a badass like Nora…. That’s the dream.

5/5 Hearts of Love

Linda Quintanilla

Tiffany Reisz is a sinfully erotica writer that all of her books are a must-read for everyone. She knows how create such sinful yet sexy stories. We finally get to know about how The Mistress separate herself with Soren. All reader are dying to know how Eleanor and Soren broke up! We finally get to know the story. Eleanor retell the story to Soren and Kingleys as they wait for a wedding to happen in Ireland. Eleanor was born to be a switch since she always crave for independent. Soren could not understand how wild Eleanor is that he ends up hurting her that she breaks free from saying the safe word. She ends up going to to her mother in order to lay low and find herself. While Eleanor escape Soren, Kingleys does the same thing too. We get to know the truth about how Kingleys end up with Juliette. I truly enjoy Kingleys and Juliette story because it is so romantic that they are truly meant for each other! Reader will definitely love the sinfully sex between characters because they are so kinky yet sweet that it makes the read so much better. Tiffany Reisz has created another best-seller. *Five Star*

The provocative story before the story continues in the critically acclaimed and award-winning series The Original Sinners For years, Kingsley Edge warned Eleanor the day would come when she, the mistress of a well-respected Catholic priest, would have to run. She always imagined if that day came, she'd be running with Søren. Instead, she's running from him. Fearing Søren and Kingsley will use their power and influence to bring her back, Eleanor takes refuge at the one place the men in her life cannot follow. Behind the cloistered gates of the convent where her mother has taken orders, Eleanor hides from the man she loves and hates in equal measure. With Eleanor gone, the lights have gone out in Kingsley's kingdom. When he learns the reason she left, he, too, turns his back on Søren and runs. On a beach in Haiti, Kingsley meets Juliette, the one woman who could save him from his sorrows. But only if he can save her first. Eleanor can hide from Søren but she can't hide from her true nature. A virginal novice at the abbey sends Eleanor down a path of sexual awakening, but to follow this path means leaving her lover behind, a sacrifice Eleanor refuses to make. The lure of the forbidden, the temptation to sin and the price of passion have never been higher, and Eleanor and Kingsley will have to pay it if they ever want to go home again.

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