The Surrender Trilogy arrived on the heels of Banks' Breathless Trilogy of rich Doms and their Subs. This series isn't any different when it come to Dom/Sub erotica and it's all wrapped up with tidy bows and ribbons by the end.

B1: "Letting Go" follows a widow as she seeks out the Dominance her late husband couldn't give her due to childhood abuse and finds herself in the arms of his best friend who'd been unrequited for years. I honestly skipped several pages of several chapters due to blathering redundancy.

B2: "Giving In" follows the sister of the deceased husband who suffers greatly from childhood abuse trauma. More interesting than B1 because both protagonists share the abuse trauma and Banks treats it realistically with situationally triggered drama a survivor might experience. Banks also does not wholly solve the issues with neat endings.

B3: "Taking It All" follows the third friend in the circle whose marriage is rocky but the conflict is already set up throughout B1 & B2 so all that's left the reader is to eye roll until the woman gets it. When the moment comes, it's could be read intensely. There's more ribbons and bows to end this but what had me eye rolling was the coma inducing saccharine filled Epilogue at the end of B3.

Each book has its own merits but I was bored with reading trite lines over and over and the way Banks had her character say "y'all" suddenly when they got together but not necessarily at any other time made me have a visceral reaction - idk why.

Overall I'd give the Trilogy 📚📚

Individually: B1📚📚 B2 📚📚📚 and B3 📚📚📚 ( )