TITLE: IMMERSED IN PLEASURE
AUTHOR: TIFFANY REISZ
Pages: 50
Date: 17/04/2013
Grade: 5
Details: an Original Sinners Short
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The Blurb:
The Manhattan
Mermaids: Believed to be the most beautiful women in the city, they entertain
wealthy, powerful men in an exclusive club called Fathoms...and are all
virgins. Derek Prince doesn't believe they really exist, until he meets the
stunningly sensual Xenia.
She drives him wild with desire, but giving in to temptation means losing her
position at Fathoms. Derek is incredibly turned on by the thought of being Xenia's first...but will
he be willing to wait for her?
I love Tiffany Reisz. I adore her books and the
characters in them. In fact, if I have a reading crush, she is it. So I can’t
explain how this story could have been on my Kindle, unread, for at least a few
months. Mind you, I’m not complaining. It was very nice to have a new to me
Tiffany Reisz story while I’m impatiently waiting for summer and the release of
The Mistress Files and The Mistress. I intend to re-read every single Original
Sinners book and short between now and the release dates, but still, reading
something I had never read before was like finding an unexpected present.
So, this is a story featuring Kingsley Edge, although
it is not really about him. The story is about Derek who tells his friends about
his meeting with a mermaid a year previously. He was sitting in a club, waiting
for his date, when he noticed a beautiful and completely wet young woman. When
she comes over to his table and puts out the fire in his table’s centre-piece
he is mesmerized, and although he almost loses her when she has to leave he
follows her and discovers the club where she works. A club, with a mythical
reputation and owned by Kingsley Edge. This is the club with the mermaids;
young virgins entertaining men while never allowing intimacy. Once a mermaid
loses her virginity she has to leave the club.
Xenia, the mermaid who has bewitched Derek, seems to
be as attracted to him as he is to her but is very reluctant to leave the
safety of the club that has not only offered her very well paid work but has
also been her home for three years. With Xenia
determined to hang on to her virginity and Derek struggling to hold himself back
a happy ending appears unlikely.
Like I said above, I’m a huge fan of Tiffany Reisz so
I’m not surprised that I loved this story. Neither am I surprised that she
managed to tell a complete story with interesting and fully fleshed characters
in only 50 pages. This story is as clever and surprising as I’ve come to expect
from this author. Reisz doesn’t write predictable tales, she doesn’t rehash old
refrains or fall back on the tried and tested. Her remarkable imagination means
that every character Reisz introduces in each of her stories is a true
original. And because Kingsley Edge does play an important role in this story
it is very much connected to the Original Sinners books. And any opportunity to
revisit that world is like a little bit of heaven to me. Only Tiffany Reisz
could come up with mermaids in the middle of Manhattan and have it come across as
completely normal and realistic. And she is the only author I can think of who
would combine the heat of sexual attraction with the relative innocence of “The
Little Mermaid”.
This wouldn’t be a Tiffany Reisz story if it wasn’t
also incredibly sexy. Who knew that not giving in to your desires could be as
hot as a fully fleshed sex scene? I didn’t, but I do now. After reading this
story I can’t help thinking that there should be some sort of ritual every time
a girl or woman is about to lose her virginity. Just to make the big transition
as special as it should be but rarely is.
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