Official Review: Surrender My Love by Lisa Eugene
Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 00:40
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Surrender My Love" by Lisa Eugene.]
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If there ever was a time for hospitals to seem deadly, that would definitely be in a book. Medical thrillers tend to make even the most collected person lose a bit of their composure. Why? Because hospitals are scary, no matter how much they mean to humanity's health, and adding a touch of danger in their halls is bound to bring shivers down a reader's spine. But what happens when a writer takes what we have instinctively feared since our childhood years, and twists it to the point of having us completely freaked out?
Chloe Bennett is your typical goody-two-shoes, sweet girl. The nurse who cares for her ill mother and supports her lazy brother. She never did anything remotely exciting in her life, never strayed from her routine - never let anyone see behind her emotional walls. But now that senior citizens are dying in Washington Memorial Hospital in an alarming rate and speed, the good nurse is not about to stand back and not investigate. Too bad someone seems set on making her look like the one responsible for all the deaths, and is trying to kill her, too. If Chloe wants to get out of this alive - at the very least - she will need to trust a sinfully sexy doctor, Brad Markson, WMH's number one cardiac surgeon. But trusting him with her body and trusting him with her heart and life is a different matter altogether. And the real killer is not only on her tracks, but closing in pretty fast - if the police doesn't get to her first.
I am not a fan of medical thrillers - or, well, medical suspense. I'm not a fan of anything medical-themed, period. Pretty sure a doctor is not considered hot in my weird mind, either. I mean, if it ever comes down to roleplay, I don't think the white coat or scrubs will do it for me the way a stetson or a firefighter uniform or even a pair of military pants would. But Lisa Eugene proved me wrong. Doctors can be as hot as a firefighter or a cowboy. Medical suspense can be fun and entertaining. And fictional characters can get me suspicious and surprised with every turn of the page, despite my natural ability to usually tell who is a good or a bad person and what is going to happen next.
The plot served our protagonists to the best of their personalities. And the characters, in turn, served the plot to its full potential. There is danger in every turn, around every corner of Surrender My Love. You don't know who to trust, who to be cautious of. Mrs. Eugene took one seemingly tired, whodunit plot, added even more conspiracies to further confuse us and get us off the killer's tracks, and was that enough? Nooo, instead the devious woman decided that having the reader hugging their knees and trembling, holding their breath and waiting for the next emotional bomb to go off was far from satisfying - never mind the fact her "voice" is really something else. So she took it a step further. She created Chloe and Brad. She gifted us with two very real, very damaged people. Two individuals striving to be perfect, and yet were far from it. They had their flaws, their emotional breaks, and made one mistake after the other, only because they expected themselves to be exactly what no person can be - flawless. Their depth in personalities - both when they were alone but also when they were together - and their struggles to overcome the boundaries they had raised between them themselves, was not only remarkable - it was a taste of brilliance! And the love scenes? Pure sin wrapped in sweet possession and - what else? - surrender.
I believe there should be no questioning as to why I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. Such writing, with so many plot twists and 3D characters, is rare these days. Bravo, Mrs. Eugene. You have a new fan in me - one that will surely check out the rest of your books!
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Chloe Bennett is your typical goody-two-shoes, sweet girl. The nurse who cares for her ill mother and supports her lazy brother. She never did anything remotely exciting in her life, never strayed from her routine - never let anyone see behind her emotional walls. But now that senior citizens are dying in Washington Memorial Hospital in an alarming rate and speed, the good nurse is not about to stand back and not investigate. Too bad someone seems set on making her look like the one responsible for all the deaths, and is trying to kill her, too. If Chloe wants to get out of this alive - at the very least - she will need to trust a sinfully sexy doctor, Brad Markson, WMH's number one cardiac surgeon. But trusting him with her body and trusting him with her heart and life is a different matter altogether. And the real killer is not only on her tracks, but closing in pretty fast - if the police doesn't get to her first.
I am not a fan of medical thrillers - or, well, medical suspense. I'm not a fan of anything medical-themed, period. Pretty sure a doctor is not considered hot in my weird mind, either. I mean, if it ever comes down to roleplay, I don't think the white coat or scrubs will do it for me the way a stetson or a firefighter uniform or even a pair of military pants would. But Lisa Eugene proved me wrong. Doctors can be as hot as a firefighter or a cowboy. Medical suspense can be fun and entertaining. And fictional characters can get me suspicious and surprised with every turn of the page, despite my natural ability to usually tell who is a good or a bad person and what is going to happen next.
The plot served our protagonists to the best of their personalities. And the characters, in turn, served the plot to its full potential. There is danger in every turn, around every corner of Surrender My Love. You don't know who to trust, who to be cautious of. Mrs. Eugene took one seemingly tired, whodunit plot, added even more conspiracies to further confuse us and get us off the killer's tracks, and was that enough? Nooo, instead the devious woman decided that having the reader hugging their knees and trembling, holding their breath and waiting for the next emotional bomb to go off was far from satisfying - never mind the fact her "voice" is really something else. So she took it a step further. She created Chloe and Brad. She gifted us with two very real, very damaged people. Two individuals striving to be perfect, and yet were far from it. They had their flaws, their emotional breaks, and made one mistake after the other, only because they expected themselves to be exactly what no person can be - flawless. Their depth in personalities - both when they were alone but also when they were together - and their struggles to overcome the boundaries they had raised between them themselves, was not only remarkable - it was a taste of brilliance! And the love scenes? Pure sin wrapped in sweet possession and - what else? - surrender.
I believe there should be no questioning as to why I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. Such writing, with so many plot twists and 3D characters, is rare these days. Bravo, Mrs. Eugene. You have a new fan in me - one that will surely check out the rest of your books!
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Buy "Surrender My Love" on Barnes and Noble
