The King by Tiffany Reisz

The King (Original Sinners, #6) (Original Sinners: The White Years, #2)

by Tiffany Reisz

The Original Sinners: The White Years

Will he take his rightful place as King of Manhattan's kink kingdom?

A man who can't be tamed...

Bouncing from bed to bed on the Upper East Side, Kingsley Edge is brilliant, beautiful and utterly debauched. No one can relieve his self-destructive appetite for carnal acts - except Soren, a man he can never have but whom he has always loved.

A dream that becomes an obsession...

When Kingsley opens the ultimate BDSM club in Soren's honour - a dungeon playground for New York's A-list - it becomes his life. With the help of a secretive new assistant, he is soon ruler of a debauched new world.

A fight to the end...

But their expertise in domination can't stop the enigmatic Reverend Fuller - he won't rest until the club is destroyed. Now it's one man's sacred mission against another's...

The Original Sinners Series: The Red Years

Book 1: The Siren

Book 2: The Angel

Book 3: The Prince

Book 4: The Mistress

The Original Sinners continues with The White Years

Book 1: The Saint

Book 2: The King

Book 3: The Virgin

Praise for Tiffany Reisz

"This series is complex and utterly compelling with rich, three dimensional characters" - Sarah Gibson, NetGalley

"Tiffany again you fulfil every want and desire in a book, this series will forever sit proudly on my shelf, I get excited to know a new one is on its way. I am so excited for The Virgin." Lorraine Kaprii, NetGalley

Reviewed by jamiereadthis on

5 of 5 stars

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As predicted, five stars.

I still have no idea how to describe what I thought these books would be vs. what they actually are. The layers and layers. The whole premise of Kingsley founding his kingdom to save lives— it got to me. I mean, if it’s helped me a ton, imagine the kinds of lives it could actually save. In amongst his origin story (and Sam!), there’s a proper villain, one who flips the expected roles of good and evil, right and wrong, saint and sinner. It goes at a core philosophy of the series: no one is too broken to heal. And everyone deserves the chance, except for the predators who perpetually prey on the helpless.

In fact, I’d be willing to bet a favorite scripture of Kingsley’s (of Søren’s, of Nora’s, of Tiffany Reisz’s?) is “God looks on the heart.” Which would happen to be I Samuel 16:7. Which would happen to be when David is anointed king. (Did I think I would call upon my old summer theology courses for an erotica book? No, I did not. Am I thrilled that I do? YES.)

Someone else has read the same Bible I have, full of these exact people. Doing these exact things. David screwed up more than just about anyone, wild, shameless, heretical, tenderhearted David, and what does God call him? Beloved. And do? Crown him king.

I’m here for that parallel all day.

Now that I’ve scared off anyone without a degree in advanced theology, let me assert that you don’t need any of that to get what makes these books special. It’s just a bonus. Come as you are. Take from it what you will. Most likely it won’t be the thing you expect.

*Is this the first erotica novel written at a Jesuit retreat? I doubt it, so I’d like a list of the others, please and thank you.

**In this episode of Everything Connects, Søren reads The Inferno to Kingsley in Italian, of which I now know enough to be supremely jealous.

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