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Nighthawk Island #1
Silent Surrender
Silent Surrender by Rita Herron released on Mar 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 25, 2002
About the author
Rita Herron
322 books952 followersUSA Today Bestselling and award-winning author Rita Herron fell in love with books at the ripe age of eight when she read her first Trixie Belden mystery. But she didn’t think real people grew up to be writers, so she became a teacher instead. Now she writes so she doesn’t have to get a real job.
With over ninety books to her credit, she’s penned romantic suspense, romantic comedy and YA novels, but she especially likes writing dark romantic suspense and crime fiction set in small southern towns.
For more on. Rita and her titles, visit her at www.ritaherron.com. You can also find her on www.Facebook/ritaherron.com and Twitter.com/ritaherron.
With over ninety books to her credit, she’s penned romantic suspense, romantic comedy and YA novels, but she especially likes writing dark romantic suspense and crime fiction set in small southern towns.
For more on. Rita and her titles, visit her at www.ritaherron.com. You can also find her on www.Facebook/ritaherron.com and Twitter.com/ritaherron.
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March 4, 2015
I would have given this book 4 stars if not for Adam. Disliked him totally. He would always initiate with Sarah and then he would apologize saying he had regrets. Once is ok, but reading the same thing happening again and again gets annoying. He would keep on playing with her feelings and justify it by saying it was for her own benefit.
April 18, 2018
Silent Surrender
April 24, 2002
After taking a leap forward in her last Intrigue "Saving His Son," Rita Herron takes a huge step back with her latest, "Silent Surrender." Sarah Cutter has been deaf since the fire that killed her parents twenty years ago. Now she has received a hearing implant through an experimental technique. When she first wakes up after the surgery she hears more than she expects: the screams of a woman being kidnapped. The doctors tell her she was dreaming or that the device was malfunctioning. Sarah knows what she heard. Her search for answers leads her to Detective Adam Black, whose sister has disappeared. Denise was a research scientist on Nighthawk Island. Did she hear his sister, and can they work together to find her before it is too late?
The editor's letter inside the front cover claims this story is "truly innovative." It's not. The basic idea is the same that Herron did in an earlier Intrigue, "Her Eyewitness." In that one, a blind man received a cornea transplant and saw a murder. In this one, a deaf woman receives a hearing implant and hears a kidnapping. This book does make better use of the gimmick. While "Her Eyewitness" only used it in the beginning and end and told a regular story in between, "Silent Surrender" has Sarah "hear" the woman throughout the book. However, like "Her Eyewitness," this is a story where I knew who the villains were early on and was left sitting through all the filler until that predictable ending came along. The villain may as well be given horns and a pitchfork, this person is so obviously baaaaad! And both books are about the cutthroat development of medical products. "Her Eyewitness" has pharmaceuticals. "Silent Surrender" has medical research. It's an interesting idea, but this book isn't innovative at all. It's a retread. I would recommend "Her Eyewitness" over "Silent Surrender." It was a better book.
Unfortunately, "Silent Surrender" contains none of the elements that made "Saving His Son" strong and too many of the ones that made her earlier Intrigues weak. Gone is the gritty writing and strong heroine of "Saving His Son." The worst part of "Silent Surrender" is Sarah. I can't even call her a heroine. There is nothing heroic about her. Sarah is so fragile she comes off as pathetic. She seems to do nothing in this book but cry and sob and have tears in her eyes. This is her reaction to her first, very brief sexual thought about the hero: "Shaken by her own thoughts, her legs threatened to buckle so she clutched the wall for support." (Page 39). What a ninny. A regency heroine might be able to get away with being such a delicate flower. What modern woman reacts to one little sexual thought like that? Oh no! Sex! I'm going to pass out! Her absolute lowest moment comes when Adam and Sarah break into an apartment to search for clues. Sarah feels tired, so Adam tells her she can take a nap. She does! He searches for clues. She lies down on the sofa and falls asleep! Why did she come along and commit a crime in breaking into the place only to take a nap? That's a good indication how useless she is and it's when I officially gave up on her. I don't know what the author has against strong heroines but it's women like Sarah that give romance heroines an bad name.
Adam isn't that much better, the kind of self-pitying, self-sacrificing mope whose routine lasts only long enough to delay the happy ending. "Silent Surrender" is readable, though one jaw-droppingly awful moment revolving around Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" had me laughing out loud. It's the kind of forced sappy moment that is unforgivable. Herron does keep the action coming at a constant rate, so the story at least passes quickly and isn't boring. She's also one of the few new Intrigue authors who tries to provide a mystery her heroes, if not her heroines, investigate. If only her villains weren't so easily identifiable.
"Silent Surrender" looks to be the first in a new series about Nighthawk Island. Hopefully the author will be generous enough to give the heroines of those books some spine.
April 24, 2002
After taking a leap forward in her last Intrigue "Saving His Son," Rita Herron takes a huge step back with her latest, "Silent Surrender." Sarah Cutter has been deaf since the fire that killed her parents twenty years ago. Now she has received a hearing implant through an experimental technique. When she first wakes up after the surgery she hears more than she expects: the screams of a woman being kidnapped. The doctors tell her she was dreaming or that the device was malfunctioning. Sarah knows what she heard. Her search for answers leads her to Detective Adam Black, whose sister has disappeared. Denise was a research scientist on Nighthawk Island. Did she hear his sister, and can they work together to find her before it is too late?
The editor's letter inside the front cover claims this story is "truly innovative." It's not. The basic idea is the same that Herron did in an earlier Intrigue, "Her Eyewitness." In that one, a blind man received a cornea transplant and saw a murder. In this one, a deaf woman receives a hearing implant and hears a kidnapping. This book does make better use of the gimmick. While "Her Eyewitness" only used it in the beginning and end and told a regular story in between, "Silent Surrender" has Sarah "hear" the woman throughout the book. However, like "Her Eyewitness," this is a story where I knew who the villains were early on and was left sitting through all the filler until that predictable ending came along. The villain may as well be given horns and a pitchfork, this person is so obviously baaaaad! And both books are about the cutthroat development of medical products. "Her Eyewitness" has pharmaceuticals. "Silent Surrender" has medical research. It's an interesting idea, but this book isn't innovative at all. It's a retread. I would recommend "Her Eyewitness" over "Silent Surrender." It was a better book.
Unfortunately, "Silent Surrender" contains none of the elements that made "Saving His Son" strong and too many of the ones that made her earlier Intrigues weak. Gone is the gritty writing and strong heroine of "Saving His Son." The worst part of "Silent Surrender" is Sarah. I can't even call her a heroine. There is nothing heroic about her. Sarah is so fragile she comes off as pathetic. She seems to do nothing in this book but cry and sob and have tears in her eyes. This is her reaction to her first, very brief sexual thought about the hero: "Shaken by her own thoughts, her legs threatened to buckle so she clutched the wall for support." (Page 39). What a ninny. A regency heroine might be able to get away with being such a delicate flower. What modern woman reacts to one little sexual thought like that? Oh no! Sex! I'm going to pass out! Her absolute lowest moment comes when Adam and Sarah break into an apartment to search for clues. Sarah feels tired, so Adam tells her she can take a nap. She does! He searches for clues. She lies down on the sofa and falls asleep! Why did she come along and commit a crime in breaking into the place only to take a nap? That's a good indication how useless she is and it's when I officially gave up on her. I don't know what the author has against strong heroines but it's women like Sarah that give romance heroines an bad name.
Adam isn't that much better, the kind of self-pitying, self-sacrificing mope whose routine lasts only long enough to delay the happy ending. "Silent Surrender" is readable, though one jaw-droppingly awful moment revolving around Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" had me laughing out loud. It's the kind of forced sappy moment that is unforgivable. Herron does keep the action coming at a constant rate, so the story at least passes quickly and isn't boring. She's also one of the few new Intrigue authors who tries to provide a mystery her heroes, if not her heroines, investigate. If only her villains weren't so easily identifiable.
"Silent Surrender" looks to be the first in a new series about Nighthawk Island. Hopefully the author will be generous enough to give the heroines of those books some spine.
January 5, 2018
Gone back and forth with how to rate this story --- wasn't thrilled with the last line of the book, but I guess I suppose her not being able to hear, seeing "their bodies" together, ok. . . It felt crude.
but the rest of the book was good. Feel as if perhaps Mrs. Herron struggled slightly with the characters but it was ok!
Loved her wedding vows, and hope that she can get her hearing back as I think she would love to hear the sounds of his voice, the songs he plays. But that's me.
but the rest of the book was good. Feel as if perhaps Mrs. Herron struggled slightly with the characters but it was ok!
Loved her wedding vows, and hope that she can get her hearing back as I think she would love to hear the sounds of his voice, the songs he plays. But that's me.
March 27, 2019
HI #660 = 3.5 stars
April 12, 2026
I loved this story and the emotions behind it. Adam can be a huge pain in this book though because he keeps giving Sarah mixed signals for like half the book. He would kiss her then regret it and say they couldn't be together because she was too innocent for him. I'm happy that they get their happy ending in the end, but it takes a long time to get there.
March 11, 2016
A Really Good Read
Holds you from the very beginning to the end.Has you wondering what's going to happen,sitting on the edge of your seat with baited breath.A really good read.
Holds you from the very beginning to the end.Has you wondering what's going to happen,sitting on the edge of your seat with baited breath.A really good read.
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