Terms of Surrender

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Summary: Annoyed
Review: In"Terms Of Surrender," Rhys Davies is an immgrant to America from Wales. He wins a brothel in a card game, and quickly becomes one of the wealthiest man in town. He meets one of the town's first families and he falls in love with the daughter, Victoria, and is determined to have her. Victoria is attracted to Rhys, but she refuses to acknowledge it and him. She is engaged to a promising politician. When her younger brother embezzles their father's bank and runs away with the money, the father makes a deal with Rhys. He will allow Victoria to marry Rhys if Rhys will give him money. Rhys agrees, and Victoria ever the dutiful daughter obeys her father. What is really annoying is that after they are married Rhys tells Victoria that he loves her, but she refuses to show any fondness for him even though she is very attracted to him. She listens too much to her parents and she pushes Rhys away. Rhys builds a big home for her, buy her many things, treat her like a princess, and tells her he loves her more than once. All Victoria does is take and never gives. When her younger brother is found dead, Victoria's parents and jilted fiancee accuses Rhys of murdering the brother, and Victoria believes them and questions Rhys about it. By the end of the book I was so angry and irritated with Victoria. Although she says that she love Rhys at the end I don't believe it. While Rhys is giving and loving, Victoria is a taker and a cold woman. I did not like Victoria at all, and I would have been happier if Rhys ended up with the prostitute who loved him more than Victoria ever did or ever will.

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Summary: drags too much
Review: This book annoyed me because it just kept dragging. Like the other reviewer, Victoria annoyed me. I got sick of 400 pages of Rhys giving and giving and begging for her love and her rejecting him and treating him like dirt. I really began to hate the female heroine. If they just hadn't kept dragging it out, having her reject him over and over again, this book might have been tolerable. As it is, the ending did not make up for all the ... in between.