Sweet Surrender
Written by Maya Banks
Narrated by Caroline Wintour
3.5/5
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Maya Banks
Maya Banks lives in southeast Texas with her husband and three children. When she's not writing, she loves to hunt and fish, bum on the beach, play poker and travel. Escaping into the pages of a book is something she's loved to do since she was a child. Now she crafts her own worlds and characters and enjoys spending as much time with them as possible. Maya loves to hang out with readers and dish books. You can find her at the Writeminded Blog as well as at her Yahoo! group, the Writeminded Readers.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Honest opinion, I think this was a weak effort starting a series. The initial chemistry between Gray and Faith was pretty interesting to see developing, but I think that it got to a point that everything just got thrown in my face, almost like after 300 odd pages and suddenly the book had to end. Though there are promising characters, I think I'll hold until I pick the next installment in the series to read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! First off, I love Maya Banks, there is not one book she has written that I have read that I haven't loved. First off, I love that Maya Bank's characters are real people, they cover the important safe sex issues everyone has to face including STDs and birth control. I love that.
Continuing with the characters I think the progressions the characters make from mutual like, to lust, to love is leisurely and more real that most erotica that I have ever read. On that topic, this book is erotica but the plot and the romance of the story is just as good as the sensuality. Something not easily found in erotica.
I really can't think of anything else to say. I love these books! - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This just wasn't my kinda book. So many things turned me off and the only reason I finished it was because it was part of a reading challenge.
First of all, the pacing was off. Gray and Faith spent most of the book doubting their feelings for each other and trying to resist their attraction to each other. Then all of a sudden in the last third of the story Faith goes on vacation to a beach cottage courtesy of a man she's met all of one time and it turns into a porn fest, complete with a threesome. Umm...no...not buying it.
The BDSM elements were basically non-existent. I didn't buy Gray as a Dom at all. He was a strong male, but strong doesn't equal Dom. Especially when he spends the last twenty pages of the story groveling for something that was a stupid misunderstanding in the first place.
I also didn't like that the author viewpoint seeped into the narrative. Way too much emphasis on how feminine Faith was because she was a submissive and how attractive that was to men. How any man would love a woman like her. I tried to pass it off as something the characters were saying but I just kept getting beat over the head with it. Overkill. She's submissive. Guys dig that. Don't need it repeated in every other chapter.
Surprisingly, even though I totally hated this book I'm going to give the author another chance. Her love scenes were hot and characters were likable if not believable. Maybe there's something in her catalog billed as straight erotica and not masquerading as romance suspense or whatever this was supposed to be. Fans say Damon and Micah get pretty intense stories. Ok. I'm in! - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Erotic story with a good plot that deals with the important trust issues in a relationship. I liked the book but some of the BDSM was a bit heavy for me. Policeman Grey is on leave looking for his partners killer and the trail links to Faith a secretary in a security firm.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Totally steamy and erotic. Warning that it is dominant male.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I am glad I won this book in a contest. Had I paid a trade paperback price for this, I would have been out of my mind with disappointment.
Gray Montgomery is a Dallas cop working undercover, and off the record, to avenge his partner's death on the job. Faith Malone is the office manager at Gray's new job at a Houston security firm, and her mother is the suspected killer's accomplice. Gray takes this job to get close to Faith to see if she's in cahoots with her mother.
While tapping her phones and invading her privacy illegally (how romantic) the two begin a flirtation. You see, Faith is looking for a dominant man to call all the shots in and out of bed and Gray is looking to do some shot calling. Slam dunk, right? Of course not. Naturally he has to fight his attraction. Why? I don't know. We're never really given a reason. So Faith goes after him. Wicked submissive of her, amirite?
To be fair, Gray does call Faith on her topping from the bottom, but the book gets no less silly. The mysteriously rich sex club owner Damon, on a short, professional acquaintance, offers his Galveston beach house for her solo use for a week (and sends her there via chauffeured Bentley) so she can think about her Gray dilemma. Uh-huh. Sure.
Right after she leaves, Gray's partner's father shows up in Houston all lathered up about the suspected killer being nearby. Gray and the people her works with, aka the Cast of Future Heroes, hatch a plan to set a trap to catch the bad guy, who's after Faith to try to kidnap and ransom her. Gray is then sent to Galveston to "protect" Faith with the command from her father to not tell her about all this trouble (foreshadowing should be subtle, this screams INCOMING BIG MISUNDERSTANDING, no?)
What follows is some light D/s play, some backdoor action, a borderline creepy threesome with her friend Micah and enough showering to drain the Great Lakes. Banks' falls into the trap of telling rather than showing when she writes sex. There's a lot of play-by-play where she tells us what cocks are doing to body parts and a major lack of emotion and reaction. Gems include, "He continued to thrust against her until finally he stopped....Then he eased out of her body with a gentle pop." So. Not. Hot.
The conclusion to the suspense has more gaping holes than a porn actress after a gang bang. What the hell was Mick on about by leading the bad guy to Galveston? Why was he so mean to Faith? Did the bad guy actually kill Gray's partner? Why was Gray unarmed? Why did the bad guy leave Faith where she could escape? Why would Faith believe an armed madman's word over Gray's and who the hell asks questions of an armed madman? Surely her relationship drama could've waited.
All told, this book was a chore to read. The secondary characters were woefully underdeveloped, the D/s rather vanilla, the sex tepid and the prose dry. It was a disappointment, as I enjoyed the Samhain books of hers that I read. I doubt I'll read book two, unless I win a copy of that as well. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I stayed up last night to finish this book. I actually only had a few chapters left to read and I had to know how things worked themselves out. While this story didn’t have the impact of Sweet Persuasion it is a very good book and a great introduction to the series. I loved all the characters, Pop, Connor, Micah, Nathan, Gray, Faith, and Damon. I loved how protective all the men were of Faith. I loved how Faith began to take charge of her life and stand up to her Mother, as well as finding what she really long for in a mate. I do wish there had been a little more sexual interaction between Gray and Faith. They burned up the pages when they were together. Ms. Banks can write some really steaming hot sex scenes. These stories are more than their sexual component though there is a lot of emotional interaction between the main characters and the secondary characters. You can feel that these people function as a family as well as friends.I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a new author or a book to read. Ms Banks is a wonderful author with a great imagination. This book shows that in every page.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not for the faint of heart. Includes bondage, submission, menage, etc. Can't wait for the next one in this series...