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Please, Harlequin, stop publishing these types of books., February 24, 2010
The hero rapes the heroine and only feels poorly about it when he realizes she was a virgin. Apparently, rape is okay if the woman has been sexually active in the past. This is not a seduction but full on rape and it is never addressed as such. I was completely disgusted and will never read any other book by this author.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Innocent's Surrender is my last Harlequin. I am done., March 9, 2010
I started reading Presents books around 1974. I loved these books. The last few years these books have moved in the general direction of men who MAKE women do things. Make them marry them and have sex with them, have more sex with them without marrying them, ruining their lives so they can have sex with them, revenge..and only sex will appease them...etc etc. I have thought that the authors for Harlequin have been stepping over the legal and moral line for many years. But, I always tried to give them the benifit of the doubt. I thought...people must want this for authors to keep writing it.... I kept thinking that the next group of books would be better. The women would be stronger. Have more character. More self worth. More pride. A cop in the family. SOMETHING. NO. Sara Craven's book "The Innocents Surrender" was so mis-titled that I could not believe it. Surrender? No. Rape? Yes. I never thought I would see the day, yet here it is. The lead male character in this book is not a "hero". He is a rapist. Later, we are suppose to believe that he has loved her secretly for years? But he thought she slept around so he wanted his share? Please. If that is Harlequins' idea of love and romance, then I want no more of it. My first book was "The Honey is Bitter"...my last book was "The Innocent's Surrender".
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Wow. Wow. This is SO bad., April 7, 2010
But I have no one but myself to blame for reading it. I'd read the Amazon reviews; I thought I would pass on reading THE INNOCENT'S SURRENDER - and yet I read it anyway. It's unbelievably bad in terms of plot - and, irony of ironies, just a few days ago, I'd read another, older book by Sara Craven, (this one from the 1980's) titled "Alien Vengeance", which has almost exactly the same plot (virginal heroine kidnapped by wealthy Greek hero, forced seduction; heroine falls in lust, oops, love)! What are the odds? At the very least "Alien Vengeance" has the excuse that it was written in the 1980's, when romance authors routinely produced books whose content would make an author blush with shame today. But it's 2010. Sara Craven has NO excuse for writing a book as poor as THE INNOCENT'S SURRENDER. I don't have the strength to write how terrible this story is--the mile-wide plot holes; the heroine's staggering lack of self-respect; the hero's caveman antics in the beginning and his dubious grovel at the end... Just take the advice of all the other reviewers who said, don't read this book. I wish I had!!
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