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Surrender Love (Surrender Trilogy #1)

by Kayelle Allen (Goodreads Author)

3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 · rating details · 52 ratings · 10 reviews

Surrender Love
Not rebound, payback, loneliness, or great sex, and far beyond love. This is surrender.

In the beds of countless lovers, the immortal Luc Saint-Cyr has been mastered as well as master, commanded as well as commander. When his mortal lover leaves him, the distraught Luc withdraws and devotes himself to work. His entertainment company throws a ceremony for their...more

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Published February 17th 2009 by Loose Id (first published February 2009)

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May 13, 2009 Brenda (b) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, 1-ebooks, 2-2009-read

After reading this one, I went to the author's website and discovered that there are actually 5 prior stories set in this universe and more are planned for the future. I felt there was enough background given that I was able to follow this story without even knowing about the others. A lot of world building happened in the beginning which I felt made the start a bit slow, but soon the story picked up pace. I found Izzorah fascinating and as the details were slowly revealed, I felt sympathy for L...more

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Jul 02, 2009 Elisa Ramblings added it

If there is a thing that an author can do to displease me is to ruin my Happily Ever After... and so when I read Surrender Love's blurb, I thought, OMG Mrs Allen, what have you done? But since I'm a faithful reader and I remember that I liked the previous book, Wulf, I bought it anyway, and put it in my reading list... only to see it everytime I opened the reading folder to choose a book to read. The ebook was there and it was beckoning me... read me, read me, you know that you will like me... i...more If there is a thing that an author can do to displease me is to ruin my Happily Ever After... and so when I read Surrender Love's blurb, I thought, OMG Mrs Allen, what have you done? But since I'm a faithful reader and I remember that I liked the previous book, Wulf, I bought it anyway, and put it in my reading list... only to see it everytime I opened the reading folder to choose a book to read. The ebook was there and it was beckoning me... read me, read me, you know that you will like me... it was like a Mermaid's song, and I did my best to resist, and BTW the length of the book helped, since I always need a lot of courage to sit down and read a novel plus. Till today I was strong, but then I surrendered.

And Kayelle Allen didn't even make my surrender easy! Since not only Wulf and Luc have split after the HEA they had in that book I read, but it was not even a break-up due to an uncontrollable fate, like if Wulf is dead or something similar (look? I can accept if you ruin my HEA, but I'm ruthless if you do that!). No, Wulf and Luc were torn apart by the most common trouble, the inability to communicate. Luc thought that Wulf thought that Luc thought... and no one of them really knew what the other thought. At the beginning of the book, Wulf is running away with his new lover, Alitus, and Luc is mourning the loss... for an handful of days! Then he meets Izzorah, and his everlasting love for Wulf is all but forgotten, and he is hot on the trail of a new lover.

Now you would think that I'm a bit hard with Luc, he is not a bad guy, but probably he is too used to loose a lover that he has a calluses around his heart. Luc is a Sempervian, means that he is immortal, and everytime he starts a relationship with someone, he has always to take in account that his lover will age and die, and he will be near him for all the time. Maybe this time he suffered a bit more since Wulf didn't die, he simply left, and Luc feels betrayed, but maybe one of the reason for Wulf's behavior is that he has never really felt like Luc was totally involved with him. The reason why they split seems so stupid, that you really wonder if they were really good together, but I remember they were, at least in that first book. I haven't read the two books in the middle, and probably something happened in them, but one thing I know: in my old fashioned mind, all those sharing your lover with your friends (since you think he wants that) and turning your sex life in a complicated play scene, well, I don't think it helped at all.

Anyway, it's not use crying over spilt milk, and maybe someone else is interested in that milk... maybe a little nice kittie? Izzorah is a feline man from an aline planet which has commercial agreement with the Tarthian Empire. He is the drummer of a rock band and they have just signed a contract with Luc's business firm. Izzorah is all you can expected from a man with some feline traits, furry ears, some furry in other strategic places, no tail, but all purrs and little cute quirks. Plus Izzorah's planet is a matriarchal one, and he flew his hometown to avoid a forced marriage with a warrior woman: Izzorah is gay and he couldn't bear the idea to be a woman's lover. But Izzorah is not against the idea to be a warrior's lover, since he is a natural submissive... only that for Izzy, a total virgin, submission is a really simple thing: you find a man who takes care of you in all your needs, and in exchange you give yourself to him. For Izzy, submission is not a shadow dungeon or pain/pleasure games, it's more like be pampered and cuddled. And yes, I like very much Izzy, probably even more than Luc: Izzy is a total innocent character and you can't hold against him the guilt to be the "third" man, the one who splits the perfect couple, also since it was not him.

In the end I have two recommendations: if you are a reader like me arriving from the first book, well, probably after few pages you will manage to pass over your disappointment for the lost romance, and enjoy the new one, that probably has more chance to last since Luc has learned from the past; and instead if you haven't read the previous book, well, I will say that probably you can read directly this one, avoiding so the disillusion about the past romance, and fully enjoying the current one.

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Jun 09, 2010 Absynthe rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, sci-fi, 6-stars, romance

omg, i so totally LOVED this book! First, I'm going to say that it helps to fully understand and appreciate Luc in this book if you've read Jawk, which can be read by itself, even though it's the third book of a series.

Kayelle Allen is a very imaginative author. She's come up with a huge history for her universe, several races and languages. I love the epic sci-fi scope of this universe and the unique characters who populate it. The level of detail put into fleshing out the universe gives this b...more

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Oct 05, 2010 Rachel Haimowitz rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Nobody

Shelves: challenge, own, couldn-t-finish, m-m

I'll admit I didn't get very far, but it was just that bad. Nothing about it, in fact, was good but the quality of the prose within each sentence. Yet the sentences taken as a whole were a disaster.

First the book starts out with a GIGANTIC info dump. The author generously labels this a "prologue," but it's in fact an outline that she couldn't figure out how to work organically into the story, so she instead just shoves it at you and clearly hopes you'll remember everything, despite it reading li...more I'll admit I didn't get very far, but it was just that bad. Nothing about it, in fact, was good but the quality of the prose within each sentence. Yet the sentences taken as a whole were a disaster.

First the book starts out with a GIGANTIC info dump. The author generously labels this a "prologue," but it's in fact an outline that she couldn't figure out how to work organically into the story, so she instead just shoves it at you and clearly hopes you'll remember everything, despite it reading like a history textbook. So much of what she said in the prologue made so little sense, too, but since it remains there unexplored, you just have to take it as it is.

Then the book starts out with a whiny, heartbroken protagonist whom we first meet through an endless, repetitive dream--in and of itself a corny device. I'm so glad when the scene is over that I decide to read on out of sheer relief.

Which takes us to the next protagonist (I assume), a guy on tour with a rock band (or possibly a member of said band) who promptly gets into a wrestling match with his cousin that actually includes the lines "Did not," "Did too." The scene is as long, unnecessary, unenlightening, and obnoxious as any other "did not/did too" fight you might see between a couple of six-year-olds in real life. It was at this point that I gave up on the whole thing, and frankly I'm baffled by all the good things other reviewers had to say about it. I dunno . . . maybe it gets better? Or maybe I'm just a really picky reader; I started out as an editor, after all, and that does tend to suck the enjoyment out of things that aren't done to near perfection. (It also makes me wonder how any editor, especially one at a house as large as Loose Id, thought this fit to publish.) Alas, this just felt amateurish in so many ways; the prose is solid, but the elements of character, story, and scene-building are a total disaster.

EDIT: I think maybe I'll try to come back to this in a few days and see if it seems any less awful then. I'd be quite relieved to find myself wanting to add a couple stars to my review.(less)

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Jan 24, 2011 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Shelves: m-m-romance

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Kayelle Allen’s Surrender Love is an award winning novel that serves as an exemplary illustration of how individual readers are capable of enjoying the same story to vastly differing degrees.

Luc Saint-Cyr is a Sempervian, a race of immortals who were not born but created by their lord Pietas, the implied antagonist of the novel. Luc has lived many lifetimes and undergone many reincarnations, his current being that of a wealthy business man and owner of Lucsondis Entertainment, the com...more

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Dec 27, 2010 Susan Roebuck rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Ms Allen is an award-winning author including two EPPIEs.

Surrender Love was the first of her books that I read and my reaction, including general awe, was, "How did she think up all this?" I believe Ms Allen's imagination goes far beyond that of most fantasy authors. She has created a world far removed from our own with its own races and languages. I was amazed at how quickly I became integrated into this world and related to the characters.

I realized that some of these characters had already a...more Ms Allen is an award-winning author including two EPPIEs.

Surrender Love was the first of her books that I read and my reaction, including general awe, was, "How did she think up all this?" I believe Ms Allen's imagination goes far beyond that of most fantasy authors. She has created a world far removed from our own with its own races and languages. I was amazed at how quickly I became integrated into this world and related to the characters.

I realized that some of these characters had already appeared in previous books by Ms Allen, but this does not affect the first-time reader like me, because the author is an expert at backstory which she relates so succinctly without detracting from the plot in hand.

Far be it from me to summarize this amazing world that she has created. Suffice it to say that the main character is Luc Saint Cyr, an exiled, immortal Semperivan (don't ask - read the book if you want to find out what that is). This handsome hunk of a hero has spent eternity bedding partners, yet his relationships have always dwindled out in the end. Surrender Love begins with such a story - Luc has been "dumped" by the love of his (ever-lasting) life, Wulf. This is where reading a previous book may have helped because I believe I was supposed to feel something akin to sympathy with Wulf, but I couldn't - I didn't know enough about him. Also, it would appear that Luc enjoys indulging in certain fantasies, that he is a tough cookie - often cruel. Yet this did not entirely come through in Surrender Love because Luc discovers the next love of his life: Izzorah Ceeow - a Kin by race and not unlike a cat with his upstanding ears (soft and velvety), smoothly blond furred body, a tendency to purr and bite with fangs and slanted green eyes. Oh but I loved this character - to the extent that I intend to start a "I love Izzy" campaign. And Luc feels the same - if Izzy (or Rah as he calls him) needs a cuddle, Luc will give him one, if Izzy needs heart surgery, Luc will provide it. Is this the cruel, wild Luc I was led to believe? Yes, he's still there, but plucky Izzy (a drummer in a famous rock band), who has had so much to withstand in his short life, steals Luc's heart away (and mine). Izzorah is no way a softie, he can stand on his own feet if he has to (despite being blind - a fact most people don't realize, so well does he hide it). It's just both he and Luc have been searching for love and, it looks like, this time they've found it.

The plot is complex and twisting but the reader is never far away from Luc and Izzorah. It has its fair share of good and evil and even some in between. The pace is fast and steady, picking up when necessary and slowing down during beautiful and steamy love scenes between the two MC's.

I have no difficultly giving this a five star rating and I can't wait to read the rest - although if Luc ever does anything bad to Izzy I shall personally duff him up.(less)

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Sep 11, 2011 Sammy2006 rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this world--first the idea of a "cat-like" lover and warriors abounding--wow--fun and steamy all in the same book. Truly, I wanted to wrap Izzy up and take him home--such a healing that takes place in Luc's heart because of Izzy's love for him--and honestly it would be hard to look for someone more evil than Pietas---ooh he makes me shudder1 I am off to read more by this author!

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Nov 12, 2010 Zuyuan rated it 1 of 5 stars

No excitement, no intense climax or I'd like to say, no climax at all. I know this book are the first one in trilogy but... all of the book gave me daily-life feeling which wasn't something I'm expect from fantasy novel. Vaguely background setting. Rather bland, whiny characters. Sex scenes were hot but nothing new.

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Nov 21, 2011 Clover rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, science-fiction, paranormal

it was a good scifi book

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Kayelle Allen is a multipublished, EPIC Award winning Science Fiction Romance author. She is known for unstoppable heroes, uncompromising love, and unforgettable passion. In 2011, she founded The Author's Secret, an author support company specializing in eBook conversion services and graphic design. In 2006, Kayelle created Marketing for Romance Writers, a self-help mentoring group which helps mem...more

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