A Willing Surrender by Robyn Donald (HP 976)
Back Cover:
She was bewildered by her own reaction!
Clary couldn't deny the attraction that flamed between herself and Morgan Caird when they met in England. But she didn't believe in love at first sight.
Neither did she believe that a powerful, experienced man like Morgan would be permanently affected in the same way. So she refused to have anything to do with him and hurried home to New Zealand.
Morgan proved her wrong. His pursuit was relentless, unavoidable, seductive - though she kept on fighting him. It took a long time for Clary to realize it was herself she was fighting-and that their love was real.
Icky Scenes: (the heroine's sister-in-law was sleeping with the hero when he met his heroine! Ew! The SIL tells the heroine how sex was between the SIL and the hero)
He laughed and teased and made love like a god.
I went to bed with him that first night—it was like a bushfire out of control.
'He damned near ate you with his eyes, and he hated me for being your sister-in-law because it meant that you'd have nothing to do with him.'
My Review:
Holy hell. I nearly stopped reading this book at the start, because of the major ick factor of the hero having sex with the heroine's sister-in-law. The sister-in-law left her husband for the hero. I quoted some of the icky things. Yeesh. Talk about an unromantic premise. It wasn't over between the SIL and the hero, they were still sleeping together when he met the heroine and fell for her instantly. (He then dumped the SIL) I could have accepted it without a second thought if it was five years in the past, but it was days ago and the present! This is a case of a guy's sex life getting majorly in the way of his future LOVE life. Watch who you sleep with, because you'll regret it when you meet the love of your life and she won't have anything to do with you because you messed with the wrong person.
At one point the heroine, who is a 25 year old virgin, thinks to herself, "I waited, why couldn't he?" The hero says to her "I won't apologize for not living a celibate life before I met you" and that is just sad and angsty and unfair. I would LOVE to have a heroine say that to a hero, and have him suck up lemons. Have you ever seen a hero who has to stand face-to-face with an ex-lover of the heroine, and know that his heroine enjoyed wild sex with another man? Nope, you won't see that. So really, it sucks big time that the heroine has icky confrontations with her SIL about the SIL's sex life with the hero. Grotty! Rant over.
Besides the icky sex situation, I liked Clary and Morgan and their passion for each other. It was special. I felt a little better about the fact that Morgan went a few months without sex before sleeping with the heroine, because ICK, one does not jump from a SIL's bed to a heroine's bed in a matter of days.
Rating: 2/5 stars, I admit I'm totally punishing this book for the icky sex with a sister-in-law plot.
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