Publisher: Avon
Date published:
July
28, 2009
ISBN: 978-0061341618
Genre: Historical
Romance
Book format: Paperback
Obtained via: Publisher
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com
War hero Chase Eversea has been banished to London. His family
in Sussex has had enough of his brooding and aimless life. Not that they simply
sent him away. They have set a mission for him—to ascertain if their cousin
would make a decent vicar for the local parish church. Chase arrives in London
and before he can visit his cousin, Adam, he receives a mysterious summons. A
little street urchin name Liam has been sent to deliver a message to Chase, one
he finds he cannot ignore. At the museum he has been summoned to he encounters
the one woman he never thought to see again, Rosalind March. Rosalind March the
woman he never forgot and the one he could never have.
Rosalind has received not one but two threatening letters on the
heels of her sister, Lucy being sent to Newgate. Worse than Newgate, Lucy has
disappeared. Unable to learn anything about her missing sister on her own
Rosalind turns to the one man she knows will be able to find her sister.
Despite Rosalind now being a widow, she and Chase continue to honour
the memory of her deceased husband, at least for a time. When the love that
flamed between them so many years ago rises again they fight to keep from
falling under its spell. With time running out before Chase leaves for India to
once again serve his country finding Lucy is their first priority. Consummating
their love may never happen.
Between Julie Anne Long’s first two books in her Pennyroyal
Green series, THE PERILS OF PLEASURE and LIKE NO OTHER LOVER there is
tremendous growth in her skill at telling a wonderful love story in this, the
third book, SINCE THE SURRENDER.
Rosalind and Chase are complex and realistic. Their dilemma and unrequited love
is palatable and well done. The secondary characters, which include the
introduction of Adam and Liam are also three dimensional and completely
believable. The thread leading to Adam’s future story is wonderfully entwined
in the main story and not at all a gratuitous tease.
I chuckled at the puppets and Chase’s reactions to them. As well
I totally understand the eeriness of the marionettes –they affect me very much
like the wax figures in the movie HOUSE
OF WAX with Vincent Price. In the story they affect Chase in that eerie but
can’t look away moment.
Each book in this series is a stand alone and do not need to be
read in order. I read WHAT I DID FOR A
DUKE before books one and two and that is one book that reminds you of just
what a romance is meant to be. SINCE THE SURRENDER is also that kind
of book. This is one you don’t want to
miss.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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