"A Love Surrendered" Book Review {Giveaway}

*October is book giveaway month!*
Don’t miss out on your chance win You Don’t Know Me by Susan May Warren and When a Heart Stops by Lynette Eason!

Do you remember those cheap romance novels you hid under the covers in high school, the ones that would get your heart pounding?  No? Well maybe that was just me… But Julie Lessman will get your heart rate up with her stories and without the trashy stuff!

A Love Surrendered
Orphaned in Iowa, Annie Kennedy moves to Boston to stay with her spinster aunt. She longs for romance to fill the void left by her parents' death. But when she falls hard for Steven O'Connor, the man who broke an engagement to her sister, Annie is worried.

Will he break her heart too when he discovers who she really is?

 

My thoughts:
While I might be a bit biased, since I have absolutely loved everything Julie Lessman has published, I really enjoyed A Love Surrendered. I am so thankful that Ms. Lessman writes fast and writes THICK books that take more than an hour to devour, because I hate for them to end!

I have been waiting for Steven’s story, as the last O’Connor, and I knew that I wouldn’t be disappointed. I don’t know how Julie Lessman does it, but she weaves such a tangled (in a good way!) story that draws you in and makes you laugh, cry, want to scream and even sigh in the same chapter!

I love Annie and my heart just about broke when... Well, I don’t want to give anything away, but I promise you will go through every emotion while reading and you will be sighing with me at the end of the book! 

Note:

While A Love Surrendered can be read as a standalone novel, if you LOVE a good story, I suggest you start with A Hope Undaunted, the first book in the Winds of Changes series. Or better yet, A Passion Most Pure, the first book in the Daughters of Boston series. (And don’t miss later in the month, when I will be reviewing and giving away a copy of A Light in the Window, the story of how it all began!)

About the author:
Julie Lessman is the popular author of A Passion Most Pure, A Passion Redeemed, and A Passion Denied, as well as A Hope Undaunted, which was one of 2010's Booklist Top Ten Inspirational Fiction winners, and A Heart Revealed. Lessman has garnered several writing awards, including ten Romance Writers of America awards. She lives in Missouri.

The extras:
Check out Julie’s website for more great information, book excerpts and contests!

Don’t miss my review of Julie’s A Heart Revealed (the 2^nd book in the Winds of Change series).

The giveaway and fine print: 
The winner will receive a copy of Julie Lessman’s A Love Surrendered via media mail.  

A Love Surrendered is available October 2012 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.

I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book for review purposes. The opinions expressed are all mine and I was not required to give a positive review. 

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