Sweet Surrender: Maya Banks
By: Angela Longstreet | 05.06.08 | Rating: 3 stars
Under Faith Malone's deceptively soft exterior lies a woman who knows exactly what she wants: a strong man who'll take without asking-because she's willing to give him everything...Dallas cop Gray Montgomery is on a mission: find the guy who killed his partner and bring him to justice. So far, he's found a link between the killer and Faith-and if Gray has to get close to her to catch the killer, so be it.
Faith is sweet and feminine, everything Gray wants and desires in a woman, be he suspects she's playing games. No way would she allow a man to call the shots in their relationship. Or would she?
Faith sees in Gray the strong, dominant man she needs, but he seems determined to keep her at a distance. So she takes matters into her own hands to prove to him it's no game she's playing. She's willing to surrender to the right man. Gray would like to be that man. But catching his partner's killer has to be his first priority-until Faith is threatened and Gray realizes he will do anything to protect her...
Yet another one of those porn movies that claim to have a plot and as I attempt to read it as if I were reading the 'articles' in the playgirl magazines, I struggle to see exactly how the story and the screwing goes hand in ... well ... crotch. Upon reading those hot sex scenes I find myself adding in a tiny yet brightly-colored post-it note tab to keep the place for quick referral just like I would be able to click on the money-shot clips with my DVD remote. And as thoughts of carpet burns dance in my mind, I find that I am unable to feel sated by this wanton novel.
She is just a blond bombshell aka secretary running the show at an independently owned contracting business while he is a six-pack-abbed male god with a badge. The story as I translated it goes to the affect that her mom is dating the bad guy that the cop is trying to get so in order to get to the mom, the law has to get in good with the blonde. Oh and of course Mr. Happy springs to life as soon as the first eye contact is made, which makes matters even worse.
She claims to want a dominant male to take her where she wants to go while he wants a woman who will let him boss her around. They have their romp in the local bdsm sex house that just happen to let non-members off of the street come in, do their sex scenes and play with some rope and spanking.
The kink is boring, the sex is the only thing giving this title any stars because it is that hot and the story...well...all ends are tied up without any real injury or worry due to something just happening to go right out of the blue. Read it for the sex scenes, burn the rest. The only spanking I want to read about is a six-packed-abbed man bent over my knee.
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Publisher: Berkley Trade (March 4, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0425219437
ISBN-13: 978-0425219430