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Secrets, Vol. 20: Surrender to Pleasure

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The Secrets series is uneven and inconsistent -- if you're surveying them, give Volume 20 a pass. The Sinclair story is simply awful: story, editing, characters (can't publishers invest even a tiny amount of money and time on copy editing any more, since it seems clear that few authors can write in good English?). The others aren't much better: trite or a bad reproduction of a Susan Johnson plot. Some Secrets volumes are worth keeping to re-visit on occasion, even for only one or two of the novellas: this one is headed out the door two days after it arrived.

The Subject by Amber Green - The way this story was written was so confusing, you never know where the two characters are, how they got there, why they were there, it was hard to understand. Tyler is stupid and thinks she's in some sort of game and can use everything to create a new sex game because she works for F#&%Ware. Esau is sweet, but how on earth he fell for this feather-brain was beyond me. The author writes like a modern person thinks, and it's too difficult to imagine what's happening. The sex scenes were alright.

Stasis by Leigh Wyndfield - This was okay, some parts were hard because this had a futuristic-type setting. Sometimes you didn't know what people were talking about. The sex scenes were too short.

A Woman's Pleasure by Charlotte Featherstone - I loved this story most because it was very sweet, and incredibly erotic. This story represents the Secrets series very well. Erotic dialogue, boiling yet tender passion, and sensual love.

Surrender by Dominique Sinclair - It's very hard to get in to a story when the relationship is already happening and the first scene is about the two of them showering together. You don't know their past, how they got together, how they felt, you didn't read any built-up, so it's as if you'd just turned on the tv to the middle of a movie. Also, I couldn't believe Madeline's superhuman strength. If she was so strong, why didn't she escape? Why didn't she knock her captor to the ground when she had the chance?