Surrender

Coastal Elite, Book 4

De: Sam Mariano, Laura Lovett

Narrado por: Allie Shae, Theo Sinclair, Kasi Hollowell, Michael Gallagher

SOPHIE: I knew better than to go to that party. I would have been much happier curled up at home eating Halloween candy by myself, but I had Mom’s voice in my head telling me to make an effort now that I was in college, to put myself out there and socialize. If I’d stayed home, I wouldn’t have met him.

SILVAN: Men have always committed atrocities chasing after their desires. The men in my family have it down to an art form. Personally, I’ve never experienced a desire that ran so deep it poisoned my soul. Until the night I laid eyes on her. It’s really too bad she didn’t feel the same way. It could have been a fairy tale. I guess our story was meant to be something a little more twisted. Oh well. I desire Sophie Bradwell, and I don’t care how many terrible things I have to do to get her… and keep her.

Surrender was previously released as Sophie’s Surrender by the same authors, but this is the first audio release of this story. This Coastal Elite re-release contains the exclusive Coastal Elite bonus story, Sleeping Beauty.

This is a dark romance intended for a mature adult audience. If you have sensitivities to certain themes commonly found in dark romance, please make sure you listen to the author’s note at the beginning of the book.

©2023, 2024 Sam Mariano (P)2024 Sam Mariano

Unhinged Amazingness

4.5 ⭐ 3.5 🌶️ 5 🎧

After Even If It Hurts I was a little reluctant to dive back into this series and Sam's stories, but OMMMGGG this is everything I was hoping for from her. Silvan is over the top obsessed and absolutely unhinged when it comes to Sophie and I couldn't get enough.

I loved watching Sophie's internal battle with her feelings for Silvan. She knew he was off kilter, but also enjoyed the love and devotion he showed her. She was a touch broken and Silvan slipped through those cracks. Would I condone this in real life, heck no, but in the pages of the book this kind of touch her and keel over adoration is one of my favorite tropes, I just loved him.

The audio was amazing. DUET narration with a partial cast and everyone rocked it. I had an absolute blast listening to this one and the almost 15hrs of audio blew by as I devoured it whole.

So good

What did I just read, and why did I love it so much. This is definitely not your typical love story. So if that's what you want, this is not it. Silvan becomes obsessed with Sophie as soon as he sees her. He wants her no matter what he has to do. Sophie is sweet and just trying to live a regular college life.

I did the audio and really enjoyed it. The narrators did a great job.

Surrender

okay this was a good book. Its about a girl that doesn't like to be around big crowds, and if you want to know why you're just going to have to read/listen to it. Anyways one day her roommate invites her to a Halloween party and she meets this Devilish good looking guy. The whole time she's at this party.He's just keeping a real close.Eye on her, pretty much stalking his praying. She knows something isn't right with this guy but for some reason she get caught in his web and now he won't or doesn't want to let her go. well she be able to get away from him or will she end up in love with her Monster/ Captive? idk your just going to have to read/listen to the book.

zero preservation skills

so Sam writes books about women who have absolutely 0% preservation skills I hope she is not one of these women in real life because that means I would actually have to pity her. all of Sam books are pretty much train wrecks to determine whether or not the girl is going to get raped because the male characters are so unbelievably and pathetically morally questionable

Sophie Is Borderline TSTL

Actually it seems of the 3 Coastal Elite titles I enjoyed, (books 1, 3 and 4) all 3 of the MFCs seemed TSTL. Let's face it ladies, in real life if a girl A meets a boy and while he goes out and has sex with other girls while he prevents girl A from even meeting another guy thus keeping her a virgin until he's ready (Landon) there would be some blood boiling. And if a boy tricks girl A into taking prenatal vitamins instead of the birth control she thought she was taking and thereby getting her pregnant (Silvan) there would be hell to pay. And Dare is a piece of work...he keeps Aubrey on lockdown so that she has no friends and monitors everything she does. In fact all 3 of the guys gas light and control their women to a certain extent, but Dare is the absolute worst! Of the 3 I am not convinced that he really loves Aubrey...just obsessed. Let's not forget that at some point all of the h's were at some point raped by the H. But back to Sophie...I don't think I've ever encountered an h so unaware and lacking common sense as much as Sophie does. It seems at every turn she would ignore that little voice that warned her not to do something. I can understand once...but twice, thrice? The "professor" at school has a note given to her that tells her to meet him at his house for school related stuff. Her inner thoughts tell her it isn't a good idea so of course she shows up at his house. There's a note that tells her he is waiting in his bedroom so what does Sophie think? 'Oh no surely the professor doesn't want sex from her?' So then she thinks nothing will happen that she doesn't want to happen (we know at this point that Silvan has already forced her to do things she didn't want, and also her male friend from high school forced her to do something she didn't want) What's sad is that at times Sophie does have enough awareness to ask herself, "When will I learn?" The obvious answer seems to be never...because she keeps allowing herself to be manipulated and keeps falling for the same tricks over and over again... Aubrey, Parker and Sophie are lucky that they aren't beaten down physically and mentally or cheated on by their men because in real life we would all be trying to get them all to a battered women's shelter.

Now all this being said....I am loving the Coastal Elite series! My only trigger is cheating so as long as the men stay possessive and dominant and faithful I will be along for the ride. I only haven't listened to the 2nd title because the storyline doesn't really interest me at this time, but who knows! Maybe after the last book in the series...I am thinking Hannah and Arden? 🤔

Thank you duet style! All of the performers are excellent, I admit that Theo Sinclair and Michael Gallagher are 2 of my absolute favorites, Benjamin Sands is also rising in the ranks in my list.

4.5 starz - worthy of a repeat listen

Sophie and Silvan

Surrender is the fourth book in the Coastal Elite series, but it can be read as a standalone.

Silvan was obsessed with Sophie from the moment he saw her, and he was very determined to get her…in any way possible. Was he a red flag? Yes. He was also very OTT protective.

Sophie was very back and forth, and I didn’t really see how she fell for Silvan. But she did.


Narration Style: Multi-cast, Duet

The narrators did a great job! They brought the characters to and story to life.

LOVED IT!

Silvan and Sophie's story has a lot of possible triggers in it as Silvan is a morally dark gray main character. He does a lot of things that would not make him a good guy in real life (or even in books for that matter). Since this is only fiction, though, I loved his character. He kept me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. I liked Sophie but she made a lot of poor choices that put her in some bad situations. If you loved Even If It Hurts, then you're going to love this one, especially the epilogue which was about Dare, Aubrey and Hannah. That was an unexpected treat. I sure hope that Hannah's story is next so she can get her HEA. Sam Mariano has definitely moved onto my favorite authors' list with this series. I can't wait to listen to more of her books. Allie Shae, Theo Sinclair, Kasi Hollowell, and Michael Gallagher all did an excellent job bringing this story to life.
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Surrender

Surrender is the fourth book in the Coastal Elite series. This book is about Sophie and Silvan and is told from both of their points of view. This is a dark romance.

Sophie and Silvan meet when she goes out to a party. She has been through some things and would rather be a hermit. Silvan is instantly drawn to Sophie, and like every other man in this series, he falls hard and fast. Sophie doesn't want anything to do with Silvan, but Silvan keeps showing up, and basically stalking Sophie until she gives in.

The more time they spend together feelings start to develop. This book had a bunch of twists and turns I didn't see coming. Will Sophie and Silvan get their happy ending?

This audiobook had a snippet of Dare, Aubrey, and Hannah as well. I'm curious about Hannah's story, as she's shown up in all of the other books as well.

A Viking and his captive

I actually read this 2 years ago with a slightly different title. It looks like it has been rereleased with a special short story with another side couple. While the main book can be read as a standalone and you can jump right in without any previous knowledge of this series the short seems to require some previous knowledge of the series I’ve only read book 1 and this one and I was totally out of the loop for the short at the end.

All that being said if you are in the mood for a OTP possessive, insta love, he falls first guy who has a solid grip on crazy, you will have fun with this. It even gets a little tongue in check with the outright reference to Beauty and the Beast. Like with all Sam Mariano books I’ve ever read check your triggers. These are not a joke and shouldn’t be overlooked for your best reading experience.

There times I wanted to have a come to Jesus talk with the FMC. I think that’s also part of the charm. I would also love to get the backstory of the MMC’s parents. Their dynamic is wild and I just know that story would be fire. I should probably double check to see if it is already a book before I continue to make public pleas for it.

Good

This one was a good read! Liked the story line for the most part. There were some things I liked and some that I didn’t but overall it was a good read.