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Surrender The Heart (2010)

by MaryLu Tyndall(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1602601658 (ISBN13: 9781602601659)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Barbour Books

series

Surrender to Destiny

review 1: 3.5/5I just can't give it four stars even though I enjoyed it and found it to be a page turner.This book had a lot of potential, I loved the romance and the adventure, but it started to fall a little flat towards the end and the Christianity aspect of the story felt very tacked on and lacked sincerity. The piece is historical fiction, yet I felt like the religious aspect of the book used present day language and ideology which made it feel even more out of place.I think the real problem with the story was that the author was trying to make this book into too many things. Rather than focus on an adventure story or a romance or a story about a crises of faith Ms Tyndall tried to make it a little bit of everything and it lost its direction a bit. I wanted more of the roman... morece or more of the adventure, but there just wasn't room for it, since so many other aspects were competing with each other for page time. I feel like in a story there should be one main problem the protagonists are trying to overcome, and this book had three. (Four if you consider that both main characters had crises of faith). So of course when all the problems wrapped up in the end with a tidy bow, it just felt too convenient for me.Good story, a fun book, but in the end I just wanted a more focused story line.
review 2: The only three things great about this book are...1.) Details about ships. The author did a great job setting the story on ships 2.) It was a clean romance. 3.) It dealt with Christianity. But! I did NOT enjoy the following. 1.) The author used the word "Belly" a million times. 2.) There was a 'manifest destiny' or mix of God's favoritism towards Americans...I believe the American Revolution was a miracle and every other war won a blessing, but I don't like it paraded as such in literature.3.) Destiny is a BIG part of this book. 4.) THE MAIN Heroine (I did not respect her) She bumps her toe - a million times!, Does not defend her true love, and constantly insists she does not trust in God but praying to Him anyway. Agh! "I am so happy Noah." She laid a hand on his arm. "I, too, have begun to trust God again." She shook her head. "...He used me, a plain, ordinary woman with no special talents..." Please shoot me now. Please. I read 350+ pages for that!?!All in all, the author's drawn out details overlaped each other towards the end of the book...The stretch in plot made the book too long, and the main girl's total lack of self-esteem made this book a bowl of overly salted meat soup. The idea was there... and lost at the same time. I only gave this book three stars due to the clean romance, the original setting, and the fact the author knows a lot about ships. I am REALLY hesitant to read her other three books in fear my life will be sucked away in another bundle of low self esteemed heroines. less

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