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Reluctant Surrender (2012)

by Riley Murphy(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1419940783 (ISBN13: 9781419940781)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ellora's Cave

series

Trust in Me

review 1: If you liked 50 Shades of Grey, you will love Reluctant Surrender. From my perspective, the only thing 50 Shades has over Reluctant Surrender is the hype. On every other count, Reluctant Surrender wins. It has better character development, a more believable plot line, and far more titillating sex scenes.The stage for Reluctant Surrender is set before the story even begins. Colin Reneaux is stubborn, difficult, challenging, and curious. Ethan White is patient, understanding, insightful, and smoking hot. Together, they're a combustible mix. I loved how we start out with Colin and Ethan as business associates, essentially. Colin has been hired to do a blog piece on collaring ceremony at Ethan and his partners new, soon to be opened BDSM resort. Due to the nature of the procee... moredings, Colin has to sign a confidentiality agreement, and everything goes downhill for her (or maybe it really starts looking up all things considered) there. This interlude perfectly sets the tone for the whole story. It's clear that Colin will not go quietly into the dungeon even though she kind of desperately wants to. Ethan is controlling and not controlling all at the same time. He has ground rules that are not to be broken under any circumstances, but he's flexible about them with Colin, maybe because she's new to the BDSM scene or maybe because he's always flexible with a new sub, and that feels realistic to me. There is not a doubt in my mind that although she is naturally submissive, Colin would have bolted if Ethan had attempted to be as heavy handed with her as Christian Grey is with Anastasia in the beginning. I had some trouble wrapping my mind around the idea that Colin is female, a lot of trouble actually. In my mind Colin is a guy, always. In this story it is made very clear early on that Colin is female, but while reading conversations between Ethan and Colin I continued to have trouble remembering that it was a man and woman talking, and not two men. I also had an issue with Ethan treating Colin like a child, which happens every time he even slightly goes into Dom mode, but that is largely because I myself have no desire to be treated like a child. I'm sure that floats some people's boats. Neither of these issues were significant enough to affect my rating however (not even combined), and I will definitely be reading more from Riley Murphy. - Katie
review 2: I enjoyed this book. The play between the main characters was humorous, especially Colin's stubbornness. It was nice seeing a man who had it all being thrown for a loop with her constant shifting attitudes and thought trains.This is the second Riley Murphy book I've bought and read this week and I must say that I really enjoy the way she writes. She manages to convey D/s type scenarios the way they should be portrayed. Through her writing the reader gets a real sense that submission doesn't mean the annihilation of a subs personality. less

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