Review: Twists and turns you'll never see coming!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
Complimentary copy provided by author/publisher for an honest review.Ellie gets a phone call that changes her life. She had run away years earlier from her tiny hometown to the city, away from the memories that haunted her. When childhood friend and one time love Stefan calls to tell her that his mother is dying and wants to say goodbye, Ellie must decide if she is ready to put aside old wounds and finally confront the man who turned her away years ago.Stefan has loved Ellie since they were kids and thought they would always be together. When Stefan goes abroad to study and Ellie is attacked, things change between the two of them and neither are willing to work together for the relationship. When Ellie runs, the love to hate relationship between she and Stefan begins and they start to blame one another for the failure of their relationship. Can Stefan convince Ellie to return and finally give him a chance, and to come clean about what really happened all those years ago?Enter Simon...Simon is a thirty year old doctor. He is single, hot, and....a virgin. When he meets Ellie there is an immediate attraction between the two and he begins to pursue her. Unfortunately at this point Ellie has decided to take a chance on Stefan, finally telling him the truth. But Stefan has been keeping a major secret of his own all of these years, will it turn out that his secret is the one that will break them up forever?Surrender to you took a whole lot of twists and turns that I didn't see coming. There were some major plot twists that really keep you on the edge of your seat and I read this is one sitting. I found myself rooting for one guy at the beginning but then I felt betrayed, so I was then rooting for the other guy by the end. There were several times when I just wanted to yell at Ellie though and tell her "it's not your fault!!! You should not be ashamed!!!" because that seemed to be the source of most of her personal strife, and it turns out that those who did not know her secret did not judge her and immediately understood. It seems that she wouldn't have lost all of those years having run away if she had been honest from the beginning.Surrender To You was a well written, fast, easy read. While I don't usually care much for the "instalove" kind of situations, I did find the storyline kept my interest and it kept me guessing. It is a solid four-star effort. Some of the angst was a little overboard, and there were some things that were a little hard to believe (namely Simon's sexual status!) however I did like the happy ending and felt at peace with the way everything was wrapped up. I will definitely check out more of Ms. Janey's work!