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Title: Like Reading Roget's Thesaurus, But With Lots of Sex
Review: In "Total Surrender," Cheryl Holt attempts to join the growing movement of women writing intelligent and romantic erotica for other women. Unfortunately, that boat has sailed without her this time. Holt's idea of writing an intelligent story seems to consist mainly of filling her prose with as many "big words" as she can find, even if they often make little or no sense in the context, or when a smaller, much more common word would have been the better choice. Yes, this book is very steamy, but the heroine is a dolt, the hero is a cad, and the prose is very purple, so unless your idea of great erotica is the "Letters to Penthouse," you should pass on this one. Cheryl Holt's first book, "Love Lessons," was better.
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