Dark Surrendering

Surrender Saga #3

by Chelsea M. Cameron

Ryder Blythe is is a disaster. A red-headed, tattooed, dirty-talking disaster. But that doesn't stop Sloane Harris from being totally and absolutely attracted to him. She knows he's bad news, but she can't fight the way she feels.

Plus, it's hard to avoid him since he's her best friend's fiancé's brother. But Sloane can't ignore the issues Ryder has following his unintentional overdose. Ryder flirts with darkness and Sloane's not sure if she can fight being dragged down with him.

It seems like only a matter of time before Ryder will self-destruct. Is Sloane willing to take that risk? Or will Ryder finally get his life together and become the man she needs?

Genres: Romance, New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Adult

First published December 16, 2014

About the author

Chelsea M. Cameron is a New York Times/USA Today/Internationally Best Selling author from Maine who now lives and works in Boston. She's a red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, former cheerleader, and world's worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, eating brunch in bed, tweeting, and playing fetch with her cat, Sassenach. 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.

Reviews

[E · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25 stars.

This is Sloan and Ryder's story. We saw the slow burn of their attraction in the previous 2 books in this series and now we find out more about Ryder's addiction struggles as well as Sloan's inexplicable attraction to him. This book is not full of sex which was nice actually. It was more a case of Ryder getting himself into a position to move forward with Sloan and be the person she deserved. I loved their witty banter and the start of the book an the situation they find themselves in is just brilliant. If I'm honest, it dragged a little at times but never the less I still found it a great read and a great addition to the series.

[Jeraca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, so I thought I would really like Sloane and Ryders novel, but in the end it was just okay for me. Sadly. They both had issues to get past and it basically took the whole book to get through them. I was expecting more sexy scenes with the amount of sexual tension between these two in Rorys book.

Overall it was okay. I'm actually kinda glad that there is only 1 more book left in this series since I haven't loved it as much as I wanted to.

[Laalmom · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25 STARS

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dies ist Sloanes und Ryders Geschichte. Ich hatte mich wirklich darauf gefreut, weil die zwei im ersten Teil der Surrender Saga so eine gute Chemie hatten.

Sloane und Ryder wachen nackt in ihrem Bett auf und können sich nicht mehr erinnern, was passiert ist. Nach einigem Überlegen und nachdem Sloane kurz Körperinventur betreibt, denkt sie, dass eigentlich nichts passiert sein kann. Sonderlich begeistert ist sie allerdings nicht, als Ryder sie erinnert, sich besser testen zu lassen, weil er eine wenig rühmliche Vergangenheit hat.

Die zwei halten sich zurück, weil beide das Gefühl haben, das sollte besser sein. Leider halten sie sich nicht dran und es geht erst einmal scharf nach unten, bevor das Happy End in SIcht ist.

Leider blieb das Buch hinter meinen Erwartungen zurück.
Sloane hatte ich mir kantiger vorgestellt und Ryder etwas rauher und weniger nervig-flirtend.
Der Anfang war ja gut - Sloane wenig begeistert über die Tatsache, dass sie sich auf Krankheiten testen muss, nachdem sie immer vorsichtig gewesen war. Aber danach ist sie irgendwie nur verliebt und man hätte mehr auf den inneren Kampf eingehen können. Aber das war lau.

Alles in allem ist die Surrender-Saga einfach nicht meins.... Schade....

[Natalie T · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had everthing going for it. Strong characters with interesting pasts and great chemistry between them but it didn't 't live up to my full expectations. Some of the things that annoyed me were taking the cute names that Lucah and Rory called each other like Mr Blythe to R. Blythe for Ryder. It didn't make sense to me. There was no reason for them to have those names like Lucha and Rory who were hiding their relationship. I also never made a connection with Ryder's addiction. There was no lead up to his overdose, it just happened so I couldn't understand why he did it. Then when he came home from rehab, it was like he went away for a holiday not to get help for a addiction. There should have been more of a back story with his struggles with drugs so as to relate to the character. Otherwise I did like Ryder and Sloanes story but it could have been much more than it was.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chelsea M. Cameron just keeps banging out the hits! I read this in one sitting and love how the story unfolds between Sloane and Ryder. I love that it wasn't wham-bam and there was a true relationship and hardship! Bravo Chelsea !!!! Keep banging out the hits girl!

[Laura *Little Read Riding Hood* · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was worried I wouldn't like Sloane and Ryder as much as Lucah and Rory, but I shouldn't have worried. Good times!!

[hobilane]

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[Gitte]

YEY

[Gillian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book easy to read. much better than deep surrendering which I gave up on as was broken don into separate novellas. liked Slyder

[Lola · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 stars