Sweet Surrendering
My Rating: four-stars
Published by: Createspace on October 11th 2013
Genres: Adult, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 1492893900
Pages: 364
Series: Surrender Saga #1
Also by this author: My Sweetest Escape
Disclosure: I was invited by the publisher to read this title in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. I received no monetary compensation, and all comments are subjective and mine alone.
Content Warning: sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence make this title appropriate for readers 18 and over.
She's his boss. He doesn't care. This office isn't big enough for the two of them... When Rory Clarke ends up hiring the guy she spent one steamy night with to be her administrative assistant, she's determined to keep things professional. Lucas Blaine has other plans for her. He wants Rory, and it's hard to resist his stunning blue eyes, chin dimple and the way he fills out a suit. Everywhere she looks, there he is, giving her a panty-melting smile and pulling her away for the most amazing (and satisfying) sex she's ever had in her life. What starts off as one sexual encounter turns into multiple trysts in and out of the office and the lines she'd tried to draw so carefully are blurring. But the closer they get, the more Rory realizes that there are things about Lucas she doesn't know, things he's hiding from her. She'll have to decide if she can surrender to her feelings or get out while she still can.
I’ve read works by Ms. Cameron before and have enjoyed them. I enjoyed Sweet Surrendering, as well, but I found a few issues that I just couldn’t get over.
First, there were many, many grammatical errors and type-os throughout the book. I also found places where the wrong word was used. It made getting lost in the story difficult when I was constantly being pulled out of it by an error that should have been caught during editing.
I found the storyline overdone. It’s been done, and done, and done, and done, and done again. So why did I want to read it? Well, I hoped that Ms. Cameron would bring something new to the table. And she was so close to nailing it, but, for me, it fell just a little short. The undercover business “spy” angle could have really been amped up and brought a lot of tension and suspense into the story. But it was just glossed over at the end of the book. Had that plot angle been used throughout the story, I think the author would have nailed the book and broken out of the mold of the standard forbidden love at the office.
The two main characters were nicely done. Rory was a strong independent woman. That’s always nice to see. She wasn’t running from something in her past, like so many new adult books on the market today. She had a good head on her shoulders, even if she did have an office dalliance. She was mostly likeable and relatable. I liked that she had friends away from Lucah and spent “girl” time with them.
Lucah was charming and handsome. The author tried to make him mysterious with the locked doors in his apartment, but it didn’t quite fall into place. Again, I think she missed the mark with the whole “spy” angle. I thought some of the things Lucah did were cute and kind of boyish, like the paper airplanes. But I was turned off by the constant use of each other’s last names. That became redundant and irritating very quickly.
I think the character development was done well, pacing was slow in spots, the writing was fine but there were many mistakes, the plot was predictable, the “spy” angle was a missed opportunity for a really great plot angle.
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