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Terms of Surrender

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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.

First of all, let me just say I do agree completely with what the other reviewers have said about the heroine. She really was irritating! Frankly, a complete [...]. HOWEVER.....

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What the other reviewers have not said is how hypercritical the hero is. The hero apparently falls in love at first sight with the heroine, then he goes and still sleeps with his mistress. Continuously. Things happen and the h/h become engaged, he tries to stay celibate, but oops, he was drunk so he ends up sleeping with his mistress. Saving grace is that the hero and heroine at this point were not intimate with each other. Lets be honest here, who wants to see stuff like this in a romance novel? Scenes like this creates disillusionment with the story from the get go.

After they marry, and seeing pages after pages of the shrewish heroine acting cold and prudish, I was left huffing and puffing in annoyance. After a huge misunderstanding, where the heroine, yes, acts like a b*tch, the hero leaves her to go back to the mistress and stays with the mistress for a couple of weeks.

Finally, how the story ends....well, of course there is a "happily ever after", the heroine goes to ask for the heros forgiveness for the misunderstanding....I don't recall him ever apologizing about him sleeping with the mistress again.

This whole review was written because I didn't want people getting this book thinking, it was about some besotted and devoted hero, , its the reason why I personally got it. He says one thing, love you, mine, mine, mine...than turns around and acts like a slut. Action speaks louder than words. The heroine in this story is a shrew, the hero is a slut and he cheated on her. Before and after the marriage. Get this book if plot lines like this does not bother you in a romance novel.

I was also annoyed. Shirl Henke is a good writer, but sometimes I think they want to change the norm and turn it around. It's always the woman in love and the man fights it, but when you change it, it has to just as good. The is no reason why the heroin is so mistrusting of her husband. From the moment she met him, he was helping her, saving her. She doesn't think for herself. Why does it take her so long to see whats wrong with her parents marriage? I didn't like her either, and yes, he should have swtayed with the whore from the brothel, at least he knew she loved him, damn the town and those who didn't like it.I Could have saved the time and read something else.

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.