Review: SURRENDER: Book Four of The Dragonfly Chronicles, A Review for the Blog Tea and Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2013
Surrender, such a simple concept and yet so very hard. In Heather McCollum' s fourth book in her Dragonfly Chronicles, we find the concept of surrender almost impossible to accept. How does one surrender when your world is falling apart around you?Kailen Whittacker was sent through time as a toddler. Discovered deep beneath the Egyptian sands, by the man who would become her father. Only her amazing powers were able to save them. From that moment on Kailen refused to go underground. But that never kept her from becoming a well known archeologist. She just studied the stones in Scotland. It took years to create a stable life but just when things start getting comfortable, a strange man appears on her balcony. A man that seems immune to her powers. And he has the worst news... her beloved father has been kidnapped and only she can save him.F2fJackson Black  has an ulterior motive. While he is willing to work with those who covet the orb... he plans on keeping it for himself. Overcrowding Kailen and those he works for. Only he never plans on falling for the "Ice Queen" never plans on seeing the woman beneath the shell and finding the warmth. And certainly never plans on discovering that there is more to life than he could ever imagine.I am going to start by saying.. do not read this out of order! I read book 1 and now book 4. While the basic story was easy enough to follow, it's easy to loose your place in the overall story arc. That being said, Surrender was a wonderful book.Both Kailen and Jackson are willing to sacrifice everything for those they love. Willing to move mountains and fight demons (in Kailen' s case, literally). But in the end both have to be willing to surrender to love.In so many ways the villains in this story define just who Kailen and Jackson are. Friend is foe and foe? Well who knows? A wonderful book, I am hoping to read the middle two books and looking forward to the conclusion of this exciting story.ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of Surrender, provided by netgalley