lunedì 13 aprile 2015

Anteprima The Virgin by Tiffany Reisz- The Original Sinners WhiteYears #3

For years, Kingsley Edge warned Eleanor the day would come when she, the mistress of a well-respected Catholic priest, would have to run and hide. She always imagined if that day came she'd be running away with Søren. But instead, she's running from him.
Knowing Søren and Kingsley will their use their influence to bring her back, Eleanor alone, penniless and scared takes refuge at the one place the men in her life cannot follow: the abbey where her mother has taken orders. Behind the cloistered gates of the convent, Eleanor hides from the man she loves and hates in equal measure
She cannot, however, hide from her true nature. When Eleanor befriends a young virginal nun, she faces a startling sexual awakening. But Eleanor can't stay forever, and the lure of her real life beckons beyond the locked gates. But to follow her fate means to leave Kyrie behind, a sacrifice Eleanor refuses to make
The lure of the forbidden. The temptation to sin. The price of passion has never been higher, and Eleanor will have to pay it if she ever wants to go home again.

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As soon as I started reading the first few lines of this book I pulled a big sigh of relief, as happens to me a bit sometimes when I see my dearest friends after years of distance. Relieved to see that are doing well, that everything is fine between them and, above all, that things have not changed, if not  for the better.
Reading the first pages and finding Søren, Nora and Kingsley together, in the present time and find out all these things about them made me really happy.

"If she hadn't loved Søren before, she would fall in love with him again for looking at her thirty-eight-years-old body with the same desire that had once gazed on her naked seventeen-years-old form.
...
Time had only increased Søren's beauty. The gray in his hair could barely be' distinguished from the blond. The years had sharpened his features, scraped off the rough edges, and sculpted him into a man worthy of all the respect and love she had to give him."


"The Virgin" tells several stories, the "now" and especially the memories of important moments of the past of this "Unholy Trinity" oby Ms Reisz, moments that changed their lives and left a mark.
See a love that over time, is able to fight the difficulties and resist creating a bond stronger than ever, it's something that I love very much, the famous fairy tale you tell a child and with Søren, Nora and Kingsley, this is it, a fable a bit kinky, but still a beautiful fairy tale. Sometimes seeing the intimacy that exists between Søren and Kingsley, about which Ms Reisz didn't need to use a lot of words, it's almost embarrassing, it seems to be envious voyeurs Who are prying.
Nora, Søren, Kingsley and Juliettgaffe together in a castle in Scotland, in the most absolute secrecy for a wedding. Between whom and with whom? All the possibilities and the doubts remain in play until the end. Martiages are those moments where everyone a bit come to terms with the "if and but" in their life. And in the life of Søren, Nora and Kingsley there was a moment of profound rupture, they never spoken between them about it, unless referring to it as "that year".
The year in which Nora ran away from Søren, the year she became pregnant with Kingsley decideding then to abort, the year in which Kingsley himself disappeared from Søren's life and for his luck his voluntary exile took him to meet Juliette. Because all this happened? Because let me tell you from the bottom of  my heart: Søren "royally fucked up" with Nora. And she was strong enough to go through hell,  to be consistent while suffering, but she managed to get away from him.

"Once upon a time she thought the world would end if se ever to live without him.
And here she was, without him. And here was the world, spinning on its axis as usual.
She had survived the end of the world and found at the end a new beginning. And if she'd survived the end of the world, surely she could survive anything now."


This story leaves, to my eyes, a monumental Kingsley, Søren has always been his strength but also his biggest weakness, but in this case his loyalty to Nora is absolute, this time he has made a choice, that, to me, it puts him at another level compared to Søren. I loved him through and through, his weaknesses, his lucidity and his heart. Kingsley loves with all over himself, is willing to do everything, even to suffer and stand back if it need tojuve done, just as he did with Juliette.
For Nora he made perhaps even more because he goes against Søren, before with a sharper mind, disappearing from circulation to protect the woman's decision and then he faces him, hitting Søren  with the force of a train.
It is also thanks to him that  from this whole story is born a new Nora, different, perhaps Søren is fearing to lose her, but it's a fear that eventually he must learn to accept if the truly loves her.

"... That was the most scared I've ever seen her, and even then, she was thinking of you.'
Søren didn't speak but he didn't look away. He held Kingsley's gaze unapolotegic.
'It's funny,' Kingsley said as he made a sudden realization. 'For over ten years I've thought One thing about her. Yes, She's beautiful, beyond beautiful. Kinky. Smart. Every man's dream. But I always thought perhaps... she wasn't good enough for you. This little girl from Nowhere, Connecticut, with a nobody mother and a piece of shit father.How could she ever be' worthy of you? Now I'm starting to think something different. You bidè behind your collar and get to play God while the rest of us do your bidding and suffer the consequences. You get the glory. She get the bruises. Maybe it's you who's Not worthy of her. Maybe it's not you who's worthy of me either.'"


Throughout this who"The Virgin" is? She is a young nun encountered by Nora in "that year", an important person, who helps Nora at a time when she's really broken, uncertain and unsure about her future. An innocent person who is able to see clearly through Nora's life  and urges her to change and to discover her potential, a new aspect of herself, so she can returnto fight in the real world.
I know, I said it all and I said nothing. There are so many things that I'd like to tell, but it wouldn't be fair to do so. Just wait and hope that they decide to publish the series "The White Years" in Italy.
Ms Reisz has made it known that she has finished to write the last book in this series, "The
Queen". I can't wait to read it, but I'm sad, because we're coming to the end of  this amazing series, but I think it's very important for an author to be able to put a stop at the right moment in the story.

Thanks to Netgalley and Harlequin MIRA for the kind preview.

RATING: 5 stars

TITLE: The Virgin
AUTHOR: Tiffany Reisz
SERIES: The Original Sinners White Years #3
PUBLISHER: Harlequin Mira










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