Total Surrender

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Summary: Hot, Steamy, Wonderful
Review: What more can I say about this book. It held me enthralled from the beginning. Michael is a wonderful hero, tormented and charming. Sarah is courageous and sensuous. The make a very hot couple when they finally come together. Even Sarah's brother gets what he deserves in the end. Cherly Holt just gets better and better. I will definetly keep buying her books.

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Summary: Total Surrender is definitely not Holt
Review: While Love Lessons was outrageously carnal, it is bolstered by appealingly strong characters who connected emotionally. Cheryl Holt's latest emerges garishly lewd with gratuitous voyeurism and a lack of moral conscience in the central protagonist Michael Stevens. Even the most jaded romance reader will be disconcerted by the infidel who treats the enamored Lady Sarah Compton shabbily by sequestering her to the country. Impoverished Sarah is fatefully thrust to a gala in Bedford where it is actually a clandestine orgy where peeping holes and illicit sex prevails. Exposed to the tempting Michael in his naked splendor titillates the virgin Sarah to taste the forbidden fruit. They start an affair and Michael is overwhelmed by his passion for Sarah but a scheme by her cousin Rebecca shatters the trust between the couple. Total Surrender aims to be erotic with the gurgitation of sexual scenes and explicit orgy. The romance is sadly feeble and ridiculously contrived. It is a lame excuse for Michael to debauch himself just because of the lack of paternal love - and also for readers to empathize with him. It languishes into a salacious and ignoramous sex read detached from emotions while we acknowledge the fact that this book is certainly not Holt at all.