She’s his boss. He doesn’t care. This office isn’t big enough for the two of them…
When Rory Clarke ends up hiring the guy she spent one steamy night with to be her administrative assistant, she’s determined to keep things professional.
Lucas Blaine has other plans for her. He wants Rory, and it’s hard to resist his stunning blue eyes, chin dimple and the way he fills out a suit. Everywhere she looks, there he is, giving her a panty-melting smile and pulling her away for the most amazing (and satisfying) sex she’s ever had in her life.
What starts off as one sexual encounter turns into multiple trysts in and out of the office and the lines she’d tried to draw so carefully are blurring. But the closer they get, the more Rory realizes that there are things about Lucas she doesn’t know, things he’s hiding from her. She’ll have to decide if she can surrender to her feelings or get out while she still can.
Sweet Surrendering by Chelsea M. Cameron
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well, I fell in love with Chelsea Cameron’s writing after reading My Favorite Mistake and that hasn’t changed at all upon finishing Sweet Surrendering.
This book is a LOT of things. Including: Fun, witty, sexy, emotional, and down right hot. The combination of all those things are what make this book and why I liked at as much as I did. My only issue with this book, and the reason it is not a 4.5-5 kisses book for me, was the editing. I know, most people hate seeing that in a review but honestly, there were enough errors (run-on sentences, grammar, punctuation, etc.) that at times, took away from the story. At first I was able to look past them but after seeing one after another it was hard to focus on the plot.
With that said, had the lack of editing been minimal, I would have rated this higher. The story line is great, the character development was good, and the overall feel of the book was definitely right up my alley. I honestly hate giving low-ish ratings to authors I love, but if there is one thing I pride our blog on, it’s honesty.
Okay, now that the hard part of the way let’s get down to the fun stuff. What I did like about this book.
Rory Clarke-Vice President of her father’s company and she won’t let anyone undermine how hard she worked, and still works, to get that title. Just because she is a Daddy’s Girl doesn’t mean this position was handed to her. She isn’t afraid to tell you that either. Rory might be the serious businesswoman but the girl knows how to let loose. She is spunky and honestly, I want to be her best friend. That’s right, lookout Sloane, I am moving in and taking over!
Wait, actually, I think I want to be BFF’s with Sloane. The girl can cook, she takes amazing care of you, she is 100% supportive, and she is more fashionable than anyone I know.
That’s right. I was a goddamn professional. No guys with stormy eyes and a fuck me smile and a magic tongue was going to stand in the way of that. Because I was a goddamn professional.
So, if you have read the synopsis then you know that is an “office romance” if you will. Rory hires an assistant…well, “hires” isn’t really the right word. The guy isn’t willing to take no for an answer. Which turns out to be a common thing with him.
Who is the “him”? Lucah “Lucas” Blaine. Want me to wrap Lucas up in three words? Okay…mother.fucking.sexy! Not just his looks either. Everything about this man is sexy. He is the definition of what turns women on. No one is immune to Lucas. Not even the “goddamn professional” Rory Clarke.
Damn him. Damn all good looking guys and their chin dimples and well-proportioned muscles and their hair that you want to touch so bad you can barely sit still. Damn them all to the fiery pits of hell.
I could feel the heat between Rory and Lucas from day one. From that very first encounter in the lobby of her office. His cocky persona might have pissed her off at first but I’ll be damned if it didn’t turn me on. The man is just that fucking amazing.
Oh, fuck me. Again. His eyes were half-closed, his hair falling in front of them. And his voice. Oh, his voice touched me in places that a voice shouldn’t have access to.
Okay, so do you remember me saying that this book was fun? Oh, well you have no idea until you read it. I laughed a lot while reading Sweet Surrendering. Some of the shit that came out of Rory’s mouth or went through her head had me cracking up.
I am the master of hand jobs. My hands are just that fantastic when a penis is placed in one of them. I could teach a damn class on this. Probably because my blow job skills left a little to be desired. I couldn’t help it if I had a gag reflex.
Now, on to the hot and steamy aspect. Wow. Just wow. Chelsea Cameron can sure write some steam. And when it comes to writing hot desk sex…well holy Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and Moses and his donkey…the woman blows it away. I love inappropriate office sexual relations. I feel like I need to experience this. Just once…okay maybe more than once but still, it needs to happen. Anyone know a hot businessman that can fulfill a girls fantasy of hot desk sex? (That was a rhetorical question…I’m married ;)).
He looked up and grinned at me and I swear I wanted to fuck that smile. Yes, I know that’s not possible. I mean, he did fuck me with his mouth, but this was something different.
So do you remember me mentioning that this book had emotion and lots of it? Well it does! It is a romance novel after all. It can’t just be about amazing handjobs, mind-blowing office sex, and goddamn professionals.
Don’t worry though, it wasn’t the sad, weepy, teary kind of emotion. It was the happy, sappy, lovey, dovey kind. The kind that leaves your heart content and that god awful goofy grin on your face.
Yeah, I have to admit, even with all the super-hot sex, Rory and Lucas are kinda cute. Okay, A LOT cute. I want to spend a day with them, basking in their happy, sappy, lovey, dovey life and then go home and lay in bed with a pint of peanut butter chip ice cream and watch a bunch of dumb rom-coms that I don’t even enjoy while I secretly plot to steal Lucas away and keep him to myself…forever.
“I don’t just want nights, Sunshine.” He put the fork down and continued to look at me with such intensity it was almost hard to look back. “I don’t want just nights. I want mornings. And mid-mornings and late mornings and noons and afternoons and evenings and everything in between. Sunrises, and sunsets, and twilight. I want it all.”…..”I want to be with you. Definitions and everything. I want to call you mine.”
Awwwwwww! See!
Oh, and don’t let the goddamn professional fool you. She’s a softy. She really is.
I loved him. Over the moon, past the stars, couldn’t breathe, smiled whenever I thought about him, couldn’t keep my hands off him, pictured a wedding and ginger babies and growing old and rocking chairs, love. He drove me crazy, made me laugh, and understood me in a way that few people did. I fucking loved him and I wanted everyone to know it…”
One of my favorite things about this book was what I would like to call
Love According To Rory
Love with Lucah was something I couldn’t control, and something I didn’t want to control. Loving him was letting go. Surrendering.
Well, I guess it’s time to wrap this up. All in all, good book. Great even if you take away the editing issues. I urge any and all readers to go out and pick this one up. I am, and will forever be, a Chelsea M. Cameron fan.
As always I will leave you with some more of my favorite quotes!
“You’re not having sex with anyone else, are you?”
“No, Sunshine. I would rather wake up with you than go to bed with anyone else.”
“ We don’t have to actually do anything. Just make sure they sit next to each other. The God of Love will do the rest.”
“The God of Love? We talking the Greek or Roman one?”
“The American one. Alcohol.”
All because of Lucas Blaine and his stupid magical tongue and lovely penis.
Chelsea M. Cameron is a YA/NA New York Times/USA Today Best Selling author from Maine. Lover of things random and ridiculous, Jane Austen/Charlotte and Emily Bronte Fangirl, red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, vegetarian, former cheerleader and world’s worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, singing in the car and tweeting (this one time, she was tweeted by Neil Gaiman). She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maine, Orono that she promptly abandoned to write about the people in her own head. More often than not, these people turn out to be just as weird as she is.
Her New Adult Contemporary Romance titles include My Favorite Mistake, which has been bought by Harlequin along with a sequel, Deeper We Fall and Faster We Burn (April 20, 2013)
Her Young Adult books include Nocturnal, Nightmare and Neither, the first three books in The Noctalis Chronicles. The fourth and final book, Neverend will be out in 2013. Whisper, the first in The Whisper Trilogy is also available, with the second book in the series, Silence and the final book, LIsten coming out in 2014.
Website: http://www.chelseamcameron.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chel_c_cam
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Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5752359.Chelsea_M_Cameron
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