Review: Oh Nora, I've missed you.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
Complimentary copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.Oh Nora, how I’ve missed you.It’s best to review The Last Good Knight as one complete volume, for to review each installment would give away too many spoilers and I don’t want to give a single thing away, this is just too good to do that to you!The Last Good Knight takes place three years before The Siren and chronicles the brief “relationship”, for lack of a better term, between Nora and a patron she meets at the Eighth Circle, Lance, a former Navy SEAL. Lance is a new employee of Kingsley’s and is checking out the facilities available for his use while in Kingsley’s employ as head of security. It is there that he meets Mistress Nora, whom is just in the club looking for a good time, which is what she hopes to do with the submissive Simone, until Sren comes in and steals her away from Nora to have some fun of his own. When it becomes clear that Sren has exercised RHIP (rank has its privileges) and leaves with Simone, Nora hits on Lance and takes him away to her private dungeon and begins an amazing night of debauchery, until they are quickly interrupted by Sren with news that one of their own has been attacked and Kingsley has called a meeting of all his female staff.*minor spoilers*The next day, Nora finds out that Lance has been assigned as her bodyguard until the culprit in the attack has been apprehended, and unfortunately, Kingsley has a strict no fraternization policy between employees. So despite the chemistry between her and Lance, and the contact between them, they must keep their hands off each other. This leads to the two of them learning about each other and revelations are made about Lance’s past. Nora is intrigued by Lance and decides she wants to help right some of the wrongs and must do so at the same of any future the two might have together.The Last Good Knight is a sweet story of ill-timed opportunity due to consequences beyond their control, wrapped up in some epic steaminess. Ms. Reisz does not disappoint in creating characters with chemistry along with shared history that is easily felt in the interactions between them. While the story involves characters that have been well documented in the series of Original Sinners novels, novellas, and short stories, The Last Good Knight could easily be read as a standalone if you are interested in getting an introduction to this series. I’ll be honest and say this is probably my most favorite series in this genre and I am in absolute love/lust with all of the characters that are along for the journey.It goes without saying that this is a five star read for me. The story is told in five short volumes that can easily be spent in the span of a lazy afternoon or to heat up a cold spring night. I mean, what’s not to love, a pint sized dominatrix, a great Dane, and a hot SEAL, sounds like the recipe for a winner to me (or porn of a completely different kind…). And indeed Ms. Reisz, God bless the US Navy (however I would really like to find out at what point they learn to fold their clothes like Lance did…my sailor seems to have missed that evolution.)