Surrender by Amy Daws
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OMG! This book… This book was INCREDIBLE! Amy Daws writes the best sports romance around and Surrender was my favorite book in the Harris Brothers Series.

First, Holy Shit, I have a massive book hangover! Amy Daws has done it for sure – she has completely outdone herself with Surrender, book four in the Harris Brothers series! And let’s be perfectly clear, this wasn’t a book in the series, it’s the book! I love everything Amy Daws writes, but I am not going to lie, this book is hands down my FAVORITE book she has written and I haven’t even got to read the conclusion to the duet yet. Gareth’s book has literally left me in quite a state! The cliffhanger alone would have done it but from the first sentence through the last I could not put this book down for fear I was missing something! And I am… but right now that’s just the conclusion to the duet because I stay up until sunup to finish this absolutely Fantastic story! Now, it’s important to note that while Surrender was written as a duet, the book reads as a standalone, but I guarantee that you will be just as anxious for the second book as I currently am!

Amy Daws writes exceptionally good romance novels. I find that Daws stories are always well written, perfectly paced and have outstanding, memorable heroes and heroines. Another important fact is how undeniably HAWT her stories are – something that holds significant sway in modern day romances!!! Also, Daws has this incredible ability to layer just the right amounts of laughter and angst, which allows them to be predominately labeled as Contemporary or Sports Rom-Coms. Yet, while Surrender is most definitely a sports romance, it is missing more of the laugh out loud comedy that I found in the first three books of the series. But, make no mistake, there is absolutely nothing lacking in this book…. NOTHING!!! It is everything I have come to expect when I pick up a story written by Daws.

In place of the laugh out loud moments I experienced with the first three books of this series, I found a hotter and altogether more angsty story when Daws wrote the final Harris brother story. There is an intensity to the book that emulates Gareth’s own intensity. He is the oldest sibling and the surrogate parent to his siblings for a time in their lives while their father was absent and their mother was in the last stages of cancer. He was and is the glue that held his siblings together often and the one they go to with each and every issue that comes upon them. He is always the strong one and the one that has it all figured out. Or so everyone thinks, including Gareth. In Surrender, Gareth learns that there is a whole other side to him and he owes it all to Sloan Montgomery. Although, there is nothing lacking with any of the Harris brothers, Gareth completely stole my heart for all time. Now, lets talk about the heroine, because Sloan is seriously a rocking heroine. This woman has taken more allegorical beatings than any woman ever should and she comes out stronger and stronger… even though she doesn’t see this in herself. Her insecurities are ingrained and her self-worth in the toilet after a lifetime of being ‘less’ in someone’s eyes – first society’s and later her husband and Mother-in-Law. And suddenly Gareth finds a way to break through and give Sloan what she’s always been missing and its incredibly beautiful to see her literal transformation from duckling to swan. Now, Sloan makes her share of mistakes with Gareth, but I love the way she learns from them in the end… **huge sigh** I promise that you will fall just as deeply for Sloan as Gareth finds himself falling for her – cause I sure did and I can’t wait to see where Daws takes readers with these characters in the conclusion to the duet. Now, this review (or any I ever write) will never provide a spoiler but I simply cannot overlook the grand gesture… because it couldn’t have been MORE perfect to the characters than this one was! But that’s all I will stay on that matter.

There is so much more to this book than I can put into words, and soooo much I refuse to put into this review because you need to experience this book without reading spoilers from myself or anyone else who was lucky enough to already read the incredible journey that we undertook in Surrender. You also need to do yourself a HUGE favor and one click this book right this very second… Not only is this my favorite story by Amy Daws to date (and I literally own/have read every word she’s written) but there isn’t a single book you could buy that would refute any of my claims regarding how fantastic her books are!

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