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Surrender Becomes Her (2009)

by Shirlee Busbee(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1420105396 (ISBN13: 9781420105391)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Zebra

series

Becomes Her

review 1: A very light and easy read! Busbee brings back Marcus from Seduction Becomes her. Marcus is considered by his family and friends to be very honorable and responsible man who is a paragon of integrity. He leads a quiet and predictable life. Life for Marcus is perfect and prefers it like this. A look into his past, reveals that he was a guardian of a very impetuous girl ten years before. She was a very opinionated and high spirited girl who turned into a very opinionated and high spirited woman. I would like to say that Marcus eventually falls for the woman behind the girl, but that is not what happened. You see, he already planned her seduction before she decided to teach him a lesson to see her as a woman...a decision that lead her to the altar with another man. Now ten ye... morears later and Marcus pretends she doesn't exist while pursuing activities with her son and father-in-law. They avoid each other like the plague, until she finds herself in a predicament that Marcus called necessary to announce they are planning to marry in order to protect her. Of course, she fights him but later decides she can not undo the happiness that her family feel. Circumstances lead to an expedient wedding. Marcus, is happy with the events and reasons that he will get her to love him as he loves her. Little does he know that she was already in love with him and has been since she was his ward. But their life together is not without incident. They have to deal with her secret, blackmailing, and finding a document to save England.
review 2: Oh romance novels! How is it that the vast majority of them fail to live up to their jacket summaries?There were so many things I wanted to like in this book, but I never ended up falling in love with Marcus, and falling in love with the romantic hero is a prerequisite for enjoying a romance. Marcus started off as a decent fellow; he got along well with his mother, he liked life peaceful and organized, and he even had endearingly innocent ways of snooping. Then he got paired up with the romantic heroine, Isabel, and in his developing his character to appeal to her, he lost most of the things I liked about him in the beginning. Suddenly, he was forceful instead of politely diffident. He felt compelled to be effective during his spy missions, rather than simply curious. And I think he might have even snapped at his mother. It's as though the author created a decent romantic lead, and then decided that he was too nice to be a romantic lead, and forced him into an alpha male role that didn't suit him well.Additionally, the spy stuff was a little off. There were too many points of view in the mystery, and not enough clear motives. The whole subplot felt exactly like a subplot meant to show that the gentlemanly hero can be badass at times. Except apparently the subplot was supposed to be compelling enough to make me want to read three other books featuring a masked spy who stops secrets from being sold to Napoleon. less

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