Surrender
Florist heroine asks her former friend Hero for a loan to help save her & her father’s floral business due to her father’s financial mismanagement. Hero agrees to pay all that she’s asking for only if she spends the weekend as his lover. She accepts but lets him know that she’s only doing it obligatorily. But as scarred Hero does his best to wine, dine, & seduce her, her barriers weaken. But is it enough to last for more than the weekend?This was a sappy & lusty novella. Very 80s romance with lots of florid writing, flower talk, & flower décor. Heroine resisted verbally yet succumbed with no compunction sexually. It was as if her brain stopped working when he touched her & then get reactivated after the multiple orgasms. Lots of sexual details (including some back-door action) but not enough romance. Despite heroine crying & Hero crying & other “emotion” verbiage, I never felt the love. The romance was poorly developed. I still don’t know what their relationship was like in the past & why Hero fell in love with her & stayed in love with her all that time. I still don’t know what made her fall in love with Hero since she basically viewed him as a shoulder to cry on in the past, given that it was his brother that broke her heart. And in the present time, Hero awakened her sexuality but I wasn’t convinced that she fell in love with him over the weekend of sex & pampering. The best I can say, romance-wise, was that they were very sexually attracted to each other & cared for the other like friends do. We are not given enough emotional material for love between these two. There was talk but the overall emotional feel was absent. Even as short as it is, this book dragged & seemed to go on & on...especially with all the flower talk.
Minimally recommended.
