Reviews for Stormy Surrender

The average rating for Stormy Surrender based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-04 00:00:00 Nolan Cochran Taylor Bellman's father gambled away the family fortune, and then upped and died leaving her in the care of her elder half-brother. With the family plantation heavily mortgaged, she's married off to much older David Lattimer, since he's willing to pay off the mortgage in exchange for a bride who will give him the entrance to society he craves. Not exactly a marriage made in heaven, but David is kind and Taylor makes do, until David's son Brent arrives for a visit and it's insta-love. Even with a husband complicating the path to true love, Taylor's Southern bred to the core and Brent's a Yankee and with war between the States looming things look pretty bleak... That's the gist of it and I won't spoil, but you will guess every plot development coming a mile away, with plenty of foreshadowing to let you know it's a-coming. This is very much a wall-paper type of romance, light on the history and historical details. While there's nothing wrong with that (to each their own taste in books), I suspect potential readers looking at that cover and expecting a sexed up romance will be sorely disappointed. The big love scene lasted all of a few sentences and then fades to black, otherwise you'll just get a few steamy kisses here and there, and a very odd ending leaving you hanging. Meh. The font is huge so this can be read in a few hours, but I wouldn't recommend picking this up unless there's nothing else in the house to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-08-09 00:00:00 Justin Wood It wasn't the type of romance novels I'm used to reading but it was still decent. When I found out that the "yankee visitor" was the step-son I just knew the book would be intense...well it kinda failed me on that aspect. There was some predictable parts as well. Taylor's husband for one, you knew something would have to happen to him for her & Brent to be together. Of course, I was imagining something more along the lines of him giving her & Brent permission to be together so that she could have a child, or something like that to put a shocking twist on things. I couldn't believe she married Jeffrey however, it was so predictable that he would die during the war because you knew in the end she would be with Brent. And when she was taken by Yankees and they asked if the colonel had returned, you knew right then who the colonel would be before he even showed up. I was most disappointed in the end of the book. It ended so bad with him leaving and going back to the war, and there wasn't even an epilogue to tell if he survived (which you knew he would) or how long he remained gone/how long the war lasted, what happened after. It was just a bad way to end that story.