Parin has lived her life as a free woman, until she comes to Midros and gets caught up in their laws, and ends up as a slave. Mercer is the man who saves her from his terrible, cruel, and sadistic father who wants to break and destroy her. Together, they fall in love and manage to not only change each other's lives, but to change the entire world.

Of the 3 Midrosian chronicle books, this is the most intense. Parin has to go through a journey from being a free woman to being a submissive slave, and all that entails. It's difficult for her because the whole mindset is different. A woman who had grown up on Midros just wouldn't have the problems that Parin has, because she just wouldn't understand the things that bother Parin. Mercer is a good man, but the problem is that he's a Midrosian man, which means that he doesn't understand Parin's outlook and perspective either. He tries to help her, and he does, but the problem is that he just doesn't always understand how hard it is for Parin, and he doesn't always adjust for that. Which, I don't suppose he's supposed to have to, being a man and all, but it really made me hate him sometimes. However, I do end up liking him. His love of Parin changes him and his thinking, just as he changes her and her thinking.

The book is really good at bringing everything together to a full circle and winds all around the first two books of the series. It gives a truly satisfying ending to the series. The payoff at the end needs the intensity in the beginning, without that, you don't understand where they started together and how they got to the point they are and how they were able to change everything.

I wish I could give Tears of Surrender more stars than I can. Even after a couple of days, the book lives in my head, and I'm still so attached to Parin and Mercer.

I received an ARC for my honest and voluntary review, which is what you just got. ( )