Helpful Score: 1
It's strange to read a book that is basically fan fiction of fan fiction. Slow Surrender is a book based on Fifty Shades of Gray which is based on the Twilight series. By the time you get to Slow Surrender all traces of Bella and Edward are gone. In this case we have a supposedly naive graduate student and a rich dominant with intimacy issues. However Ms Naive jumps right into kinky fuckery (to borrow a phrase from Fifty Shades) without fear or pain or insecurities (or self-consciousness). That said, what's great about this book is how a mature, adult sexual relationship is depicted. Not with a woman being forced to call her partner Master, but with one person willfully submitting to the other person's desires and direction. It was cool and sexy.
The romance was a little lackluster. There was much development of their sexual relationship, but not enough development of their love. Even at the end, it was difficult to see these two as true loves destined for each other. Also the "issues" that the hero seems to have seem frankly kind if silly (she can't know his real name) and its difficult to take his reaction to saying it and his subsequent decampment seriously. Good enough writing to read the next book but not sure this is on a keeper list.
The romance was a little lackluster. There was much development of their sexual relationship, but not enough development of their love. Even at the end, it was difficult to see these two as true loves destined for each other. Also the "issues" that the hero seems to have seem frankly kind if silly (she can't know his real name) and its difficult to take his reaction to saying it and his subsequent decampment seriously. Good enough writing to read the next book but not sure this is on a keeper list.
