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The Mistress
by Tiffany Reisz
A few times I have read a series and gotten to the last book and thought Uggg…had I known that was going to happen I wouldn’t even have bothered with this series *looks at Kathleen Turner series and just shakes head*. This book had an event that might have done that for me, I’m still upset with one little facet of this book that left a huge bad taste in my mouth but alas Tiffany Reisz dragged me into the rest of the story so completely that I’m not at all sorry that I read this series and I will still recommend it to others who want to walk on the dark and wild side. (I will however vent about said event in the spoiler tag at the bottom.)
“Because there is nothing I wouldn’t do to protect you, Eleanor. Nothing I wouldn’t do to help you. And nothing I wouldn’t do to save you. Nothing.”
The Mistress picks up right where The Prince ended, Nora has been taken and now Kingsley and Søren are desperately trying to work out how to find her as quickly as possible. It also seems they will have an abundance of help as every vanilla person they know shows up on Kingsley’s doorstep. Wes, has come to be involved and even though he hates Søren they seem to be able to find some common ground. The conversations between Wes and Søren and Wes and Kingsley were some of my favorites. Søren is truly once of the most complex male leads I’ve read and his complete unselfish love of Nora is amazing.
“Kingsley...you trust him, right?” Wesley asked, not sure he trusted the man at all. “With my life,” Søren said, still not looking at him. “Do you trust him with hers?” “Same answer,” Søren said. “Same question.”
Kingsley was really the man to take charge of the situation. With Søren devastated by Nora’s situation, the Frenchman really takes charge of the situation and does so with his usual humor and flare for the dramatic. I loved getting more backstory of the relationship between he and Nora and I really enjoyed how he laid it out for Wesley.
“Our Nora has a magic pussy. It’s the opposite of the Bermuda Triangle. Lost men sail into it and then find themselves.”
Did I mention that I totally love that they called themselves out on this. The whole time I’m sitting there wondering what is so great about Nora that all these men drop to their knees for her and are helplessly in love with her. But there it is right there, magic pussy.
I still liked both The Angel and The Prince much better than this book. They flowed a little more smoothly and events didn’t seem so far out of the realm of possibility. The Mistress starts feeling a little clunky at times with the extra PoVs and flashbacks, some of which were repeats. In all of the other books we only have two competing PoVs but in the Mistress there are FIVE and it got a little distracting. A few characters seemed just shoved in there. I really never felt like Grace should have been in this story at all and why she was given a PoV is really beyond me, but there is more on that in my spoiler tag below.
There is also Laila, Søren’s niece, entering into the story. I knew immediately ‘why’ she was there but she also was able to shed light onto Nora and Søren’s relationship when they were allowed to be out in the open with one another. Her memories of their past visits to Denmark really opened up what their relationship would have been if he wasn’t a priest. Her memories of overheard conversations and muttering of love a devotion to each other were absolutely beautiful.
I know you’re hurting. Don’t be afraid to hurt me, too. I know you want to let go. Let go with me. You need comfort. Let me comfort you with my body. Lose yourself inside me. Forget what you’ve lost, forget what you can’t have. There’s no shame in trying to forget for a night even if you know you’ll remember in the morning.
And finally Nora, she must decide for sure if she survives who would she pick to be with. Will she choose the dutiful innocent and extremely vanilla Wes, or does she choose the enigmatic and unconditional love of Søren who may hurt her but never harms her. Søren knows all her faults, shortcomings and kinkcomings and loves her all the more for them…hmmm how will she choose. The touching moments she shares with Søren made me tear up and I became a complete emotional wreck for a little time. It was so beautiful and heartfelt and amazing that I was just wrapped up in these characters and I really didn’t want it to end.
And for those reasons above I still loved this series overall and I won’t let the one thing that I really hated deter that. Søren, Kingsley, Griffin and even Nora made a most interesting tale. I have thought about this book a lot since I finished so I will say that it totally sticks with you and it did invoke a lot of emotions in me.
I do recommend this series to anyone that likes BDSM, Erotica or even someone who wants to press their boundaries and want a Great Story along with the smut.
And Now……On to the rant.
Spoiler
1st
Okay… so this book is only over the course of a few days…Nora is kidnapped and held captive. Søren is so distraught over her abduction and then Grace shows up.
Why is Grace even in this book! She was a little blip on the map in the first two books. I think she literally got three sentences in the second book and now she gets an entire PoV. All the important dialogue that Søren had with her could have easily been split between Laila, Kingsley and Wes possibly even Daniel. It seemed like this huge plot device just so Tiffany Reizs could shove in a trick to give it this OHHH ending. However I didn’t feel OHHH at all I just felt WTF…seriously. It seemed so out of character for Søren to have actual intercourse with Grace. They knew each other for 3-5 days…. 3-5 days and you are going to try and make me believe that he made Nora wait 5 years for them to have sex and Kingsley and he went something like 15 years but Grace’s freckles are like kryptonite and he gave up on his ‘sex, is special and should only be shared with someone you love’ I didn’t buy it. It seemed so out of character. He has dominated so many other women and never had sex with them so why he would have done that with Grace was just ugh….all around.
So that was how God answered their prayer to have a baby… Søren is the answer. That way he gets a child he can never truly claim and Nora gets to be his godmother. Anyone else not want to mix in babies with their erotica….or is that just me *raises hand* It wasn’t even a surprise because they started dropping hints early on. Nora prays for you to have a child, I’ve prayed for you 9 times (I’m not Catholic but I guess that is important). Zach said I could have as much fun as I wanted while I’m here, he just doesn’t want to know the details….Well a baby is a hard detail to miss.
I'm so not happy that this seemed to be forced into the story and what now Kingsley’s baby girl and Søren’s baby boy will be best friends and grow up to be in love and start their own BDSM legacy….idk I hate the entire thing.
2nd
Wes, ah my poor Wesley. I loved him in The Siren but since then it has really fallen off. He is so vanilla and I really thought he and Nora together was just ewe. So when I saw Laila in the story I knew she was there for his HEA. A quick and easy out, and it was quick. He has just proposed to Nora yet he meets this chick and then Nora was just a ‘friend’ hmmm. Also they know each other for less than a week and she gives up her virginity to him. I know this is erotica but it seemed a little forced as well.
I did however like Laila’s addition to the story and thought long term she was perfect for Wes’s character.