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ktswings's review against another edition
4.0
I'm having a hard time rating the brief stories. It's like a mini reminder of how adoring I feel towards Nora, but not enough personally for me to sink my teeth into.
foryouathena's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
kiiarareads's review against another edition
4.0
“I lied,” he said reaching for her. “I will ask you to stay. I will and I am. I’m begging you to stay. I need you.”
pamgodwin's review against another edition
5.0
As the first installment in the Original Sinners series (a novella: #0.5), this isn't a romance, at least not in the blatant conventional way. But it is erotic to be sure. Eleanor's unorthodox situation and the references to her master insinuate a profundity and soul-reaching sentiment that isn't fully grasped until the end. To be honest, I hated the ending. Then I sat on it, let it simmer, and began to gain some perspective. THEN I read The Siren (book 1 in the series, comes after this), and now I completely get it. This ending is faultless, as is the series. This is a must read for erotica fans who appreciate the psychology behind BDSM.
sjb86's review against another edition
3.0
I'm a ultimate romantic so this story got a love hate response from me. I didn't like to relationship between priest and Elle because its doom from start. He's unwilling to be full time partner or he wouldn't be a priest. Daniel story is very sad and when he meets Elle they have great promise of a relationship but because she's so devoted to priest nothing comes of it. I only like to read HEA so Daniel getting on with his life is great but because he's not with Elle I didn't like ending. Really good quick read tho.
lifeand100books's review against another edition
5.0
Seven Day Loan is a prequel to Reisz’s The Siren , a prequel that I of course would read AFTER reading The Siren (oh well). The biggest “OMG” moment of The Siren is when you find out what Soren’s profession is. His profession is discussed in Seven Day Loan hence why I suggest reading it after, making the reveal in The Siren more of a surprise.
ANYWAY – Seriously, you must read this. Daniel is heavenly. The time he and Nora spend together is HOT and it definitely helps us get to know Nora just a bit more. She is an enigma of a character, one that I’m anxious to keep learning about.
As expected Reisz’s writing style is exquisite and leaves the reader wanting more. I can’t get enough of her stories and am greatly looking forward to the publication of book two in The Original Sinners series, The Angel, in September. Reisz has a number of sequels to Seven Day Loan, as well as The Siren posted for FREE on her website.
Final thoughts: Read it. No, seriously. Read it.
Kimberly (Reflections of a Book Addict)
Originally Posted: http://wp.me/p18lIL-169
ANYWAY – Seriously, you must read this. Daniel is heavenly. The time he and Nora spend together is HOT and it definitely helps us get to know Nora just a bit more. She is an enigma of a character, one that I’m anxious to keep learning about.
As expected Reisz’s writing style is exquisite and leaves the reader wanting more. I can’t get enough of her stories and am greatly looking forward to the publication of book two in The Original Sinners series, The Angel, in September. Reisz has a number of sequels to Seven Day Loan, as well as The Siren posted for FREE on her website.
Final thoughts: Read it. No, seriously. Read it.
Kimberly (Reflections of a Book Addict)
Originally Posted: http://wp.me/p18lIL-169
booksplantsandtea's review against another edition
5.0
Read this one in "Bound" with the original title "Seven-Day Loan" and loved it.
I started reading and couldn't stop.
Awesome short story!
I started reading and couldn't stop.
Awesome short story!
anasatticbookblog's review against another edition
5.0
Seven Day Loan was provided by Net Galley in exchange for a fair review. I picked up Seven Day Loan, The Siren and The Angel on NetGalley. They are all part of The Original Sinners series by Tiffany Reisz (clickfor reading order goodreads tells you to read this first, the author suggests reading The Siren). Though this story takes place 10 years before The Siren (see my review here), this should be read AFTER. There are also two FREE sequels to this on Tiffany Reisz's website which I will also review here.
If you don't want to read The Siren, no prob. This book and its sequel is a great read all on its own, it just ruins a little revelation in The Siren.
This novella is also a stand-alone in the 12 Shades of Surrender series, a series of 12 short stories by popular authors, all BDSM themed and re-branded. I looked up the series. Some stories sound great, others got really bad reviews, and others, I couldn't even find. For now, I'll just stick with this.
In Seven Day Loan, Eleanor ("Nora" from The Siren) is 23 and being loaned out by her Master for a week while he is in Rome. Daniel is a grieving widower and hasn't been with a woman since his wife/love of his life/slave, Maggie, passed away from cancer. Enter Eleanor. Though she is submissive, she is snarky and sarcastic. Maybe enough to wake this guy up from his self-imposed isolation and mourning. Eleanor is not happy about being loaned out, and though her Master has shared her before, he was always there.
These two quickly connect in a very big way. Daniel, who inherited millions when his wife died, was previously a librarian, and Eleanor worked in a bookstore and loves books. There is some interesting foreshadowing in this story, as you already know she will become an author. Both bibliophiles, they have a lot in common. Not only do they click in the library, they click in the bedroom as well. Though we know she is there on a seven day loan, you can't help but root for them to stay together in the end.
We see those tricky mind fucks from the D/s world come into play here. Will Daniel stop grieving and chase Eleanor? Will Eleanor leave her master, who can never fully commit to her, for the promise of a wonderful Master who can give her a family?
Since I read The Siren, I wasn't necessarily expecting a happy ending. But I knew it was a good ending, with more to come.
4.5 Stars for story 4.5 for Heat
Daniel Part Two is released chapter by chapter on Tiffany Reisz's website http://tiffanyreisz.com/storytime/freebies-sextras/. This book takes place about 1.5 years after Seven Day Loan. I recommend you take a break between the two. Let a little sadness for Daniel creep in. I read Little Red Riding Crop (another freebie) in between which shows Nora years later. Then dive right in to Daniel Part 2.
I fucking loved it. Being an HEA kind of girl, this was a perfect story for me. Daniel took Eleanor's advice and traveled the world. But he couldn't get Eleanor out of his mind. He came back wanting to claim her, but when he visited Kingsley to check in, he meets the beautiful Anya from Quebec. The virgin sub is being trained to be auctioned off in Kingsley's auction so she can support her numerous siblings. Virgins go for big bucks, so she is the star of the auction.
Anya shows only disgust and distain for Daniel, as she hates Canadians. She is snarky and fresh like Eleanor, and Daniel can't help but enjoy it.
This was a happier book with some awesome sex scenes, and I can't believe it was FREE on Tiffany's site! LOVED!!!
5 Stars for story, 5 for Heat
A Christmas Maggie was a short little 3 chapter take-off on the scrooge story with Christmases past, present and future. This was a FREE read on Tiffany's website and takes place about 6 months after Daniel Part 2.
Anya and Daniel are together, but she (and he) is concerned Daniel will never love Anya as much as he loves his late wife Maggie. So Daniel gets a visit from the Maggie Christmas angel, convincing Daniel he is doing the right thing.
I bawled my eyes out (good tears). I'm also a total Christmas sap. I love myself a good Christmas tale, and this was.
5 stars for story, 1 for Heat.
All in all, if I put these together as a story on their own, I may have liked this even more than The Siren. I really loved Daniel!
If you don't want to read The Siren, no prob. This book and its sequel is a great read all on its own, it just ruins a little revelation in The Siren.
This novella is also a stand-alone in the 12 Shades of Surrender series, a series of 12 short stories by popular authors, all BDSM themed and re-branded. I looked up the series. Some stories sound great, others got really bad reviews, and others, I couldn't even find. For now, I'll just stick with this.
In Seven Day Loan, Eleanor ("Nora" from The Siren) is 23 and being loaned out by her Master for a week while he is in Rome. Daniel is a grieving widower and hasn't been with a woman since his wife/love of his life/slave, Maggie, passed away from cancer. Enter Eleanor. Though she is submissive, she is snarky and sarcastic. Maybe enough to wake this guy up from his self-imposed isolation and mourning. Eleanor is not happy about being loaned out, and though her Master has shared her before, he was always there.
These two quickly connect in a very big way. Daniel, who inherited millions when his wife died, was previously a librarian, and Eleanor worked in a bookstore and loves books. There is some interesting foreshadowing in this story, as you already know she will become an author. Both bibliophiles, they have a lot in common. Not only do they click in the library, they click in the bedroom as well. Though we know she is there on a seven day loan, you can't help but root for them to stay together in the end.
We see those tricky mind fucks from the D/s world come into play here. Will Daniel stop grieving and chase Eleanor? Will Eleanor leave her master, who can never fully commit to her, for the promise of a wonderful Master who can give her a family?
Since I read The Siren, I wasn't necessarily expecting a happy ending. But I knew it was a good ending, with more to come.
4.5 Stars for story 4.5 for Heat
Daniel Part Two is released chapter by chapter on Tiffany Reisz's website http://tiffanyreisz.com/storytime/freebies-sextras/. This book takes place about 1.5 years after Seven Day Loan. I recommend you take a break between the two. Let a little sadness for Daniel creep in. I read Little Red Riding Crop (another freebie) in between which shows Nora years later. Then dive right in to Daniel Part 2.
I fucking loved it. Being an HEA kind of girl, this was a perfect story for me. Daniel took Eleanor's advice and traveled the world. But he couldn't get Eleanor out of his mind. He came back wanting to claim her, but when he visited Kingsley to check in, he meets the beautiful Anya from Quebec. The virgin sub is being trained to be auctioned off in Kingsley's auction so she can support her numerous siblings. Virgins go for big bucks, so she is the star of the auction.
Anya shows only disgust and distain for Daniel, as she hates Canadians. She is snarky and fresh like Eleanor, and Daniel can't help but enjoy it.
This was a happier book with some awesome sex scenes, and I can't believe it was FREE on Tiffany's site! LOVED!!!
5 Stars for story, 5 for Heat
A Christmas Maggie was a short little 3 chapter take-off on the scrooge story with Christmases past, present and future. This was a FREE read on Tiffany's website and takes place about 6 months after Daniel Part 2.
Anya and Daniel are together, but she (and he) is concerned Daniel will never love Anya as much as he loves his late wife Maggie. So Daniel gets a visit from the Maggie Christmas angel, convincing Daniel he is doing the right thing.
I bawled my eyes out (good tears). I'm also a total Christmas sap. I love myself a good Christmas tale, and this was.
5 stars for story, 1 for Heat.
All in all, if I put these together as a story on their own, I may have liked this even more than The Siren. I really loved Daniel!
mnboyer's review
4.0
I grabbed this randomly from the public library (via Kindle) and didn't realize it was part of a series. Well, I'll now have to go and read the series because this little novella was actually quite good! The scenes were well written, are actually realistic (something that you don't see in everyone's erotic novels nowadays), and I'm like "girl, you need to figure out which man is your man." I clearly don't know the characters well--again, I need to go read this series--but I definitely have my idea of which guy is going to make this sub happier and lemme just say, he's a librarian.
Very excited to start at the beginning of this series and figure out what happens!
Very excited to start at the beginning of this series and figure out what happens!
shannon_cocktailsandbooks's review against another edition
4.0
This is a super quickie read with a young Eleanor (aka Nora) from The Original Sinners finding herself being farmed out to one of her master's friends to help him re-enter the scene after mourning his wife's death over the past three years.
If you've read any of The Original Sinners books, we see that same defiant Nora in her younger Eleanor self. She's mad that her master has forced her to help his friend by staying with him for seven days. But what Eleanor finds is a man who uses her body differently than her master and who gives himself completely to her. It's everything she's ever wanted from her master but knows she'll never have. She might be swayed to live with Daniel as her master, but Eleanor knows ultimately where her heart lies. It was interesting to see a twenty three year old Nora struggle with who she was in love with, but knowing that despite what she gets out of the relationship, he's exactly who she wants to be with.
Then there was Daniel. He was easy to fall for. He easily separated his Dom persona in the bedroom from who he was outside. He was truly someone, knowing what Nora's like in her thirties, I could see Nora with. He may have been able to get her to submit to him in the bedroom, she was truly an equal to him outside. Eleanor would definitely have been a different person if it was Daniel she had stayed with, rather than going back to her master.
If you've been reading The Original Sinners series, this is definitely so much needed insight into Nora and to what purpose a certain master used her to heal friends within their underground community.
If you've read any of The Original Sinners books, we see that same defiant Nora in her younger Eleanor self. She's mad that her master has forced her to help his friend by staying with him for seven days. But what Eleanor finds is a man who uses her body differently than her master and who gives himself completely to her. It's everything she's ever wanted from her master but knows she'll never have. She might be swayed to live with Daniel as her master, but Eleanor knows ultimately where her heart lies. It was interesting to see a twenty three year old Nora struggle with who she was in love with, but knowing that despite what she gets out of the relationship, he's exactly who she wants to be with.
Then there was Daniel. He was easy to fall for. He easily separated his Dom persona in the bedroom from who he was outside. He was truly someone, knowing what Nora's like in her thirties, I could see Nora with. He may have been able to get her to submit to him in the bedroom, she was truly an equal to him outside. Eleanor would definitely have been a different person if it was Daniel she had stayed with, rather than going back to her master.
If you've been reading The Original Sinners series, this is definitely so much needed insight into Nora and to what purpose a certain master used her to heal friends within their underground community.