Beauty from Surrender

By: Georgia Cates

Narrated by: Robert Black, Bunny Warren

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

How do you move on when he’s every song you sing?

After Laurelyn Prescott walks away from the love of her life, she returns to Nashville to pursue the only dream she has left. Determined to find a distraction from the pain of losing Jack Henry, she immerses herself in her music. But with her old life comes old acquaintances and new expectations. When Laurelyn refuses her record producer's outrageous demands, she finds herself without a career - until an unforeseen opportunity presents itself. From there it's a rocket ride straight to the top where Laurelyn finds the success she's always dreamed of. Will it be enough to bring her the happiness she so deserves, or will the absence of Jack Henry leave her wanting more?

Jack Henry McLachlan never expected to fall in love with Laurelyn Prescott - but he did. After he foolishly let her slip through his fingers, he spends three months searching for her, but their reunion doesn't come easy. The woman he finds isn't the same one who drifted away without a goodbye. No longer an insecure girl on an Australian adventure, this Laurelyn is a successful musician with a promising career. Her dreams are becoming a reality, and Jack is terrified his American girl won’t have a place for him in her new life. With only a month to convince her otherwise, will it be enough time to make her visualize a life beyond the glitz and glamor, a life that includes him?

©2013 Georgia Cates (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Good story, not great performance

I liked the story, however I could not get past the male narrator. The female narrator was great.

Going Downhill

Why do heroines in these stories go nuts when the heros want to stick to the original plan of ‘no strings attached?’ In part 2 of this series, we begin in Nashville after Laurelyn runs away from Jack because he wanted to stick to the original deal.

My two biggest issues are:

1. Sex – I understand they were apart for a long time, but you must give some plot. Laurelyn and Jack have sex almost the entire story. By the way, some of they stuff they were saying was just wrong – baby hatcher? Really?

2. Backstory – this is severely lacking because much of the story is filled with sex scenes. Can we switch a few with more explanations of Laurelyn and her complicated relationship with her mom and dad? We also need a bit more history on Jack too.

No need in lying to myself. I’m going to read book 3. I hope the finale will provide more insight into Laurelyn and Jack.

Another Great Book in a fantastic series

Ladies, prepare to have Jack Henry melt your panties off! If it is even possible I am more in love with him now then I was before! He is simply amazing and such a wonderful man in Beauty From Surrender. Everything I loved about him in Beauty From Pain just multiplies in BFS and he is seriously the perfect guy. He is caring, LOVING, mature, sexy, rich, he is just EVERYTHING that is perfection. He might just be my ALL TIME book boyfriend, yep, that is right! ALL TIME.

Beauty From Surrender picks up right where Beauty From Pain leaves off. Those who have read BFP were given the first two chapters of BFS and know what a crazy cliff hanger/wait this has been. I was one of those bloggers stalking Amazon waiting for the moment it is released and devoured the book within hours! I read the entire book all in one night. I just LOVED IT!
What I loved most about BFS is it still had the same feel BFP had. There are decisions to be made, feelings to be expressed, all with a time clock clicking over the heads of Laurelyn & Jack. Though the story was different it still had that magical feel BFP had. I also loved that it was not cheesy or unrealistic love. They may have expressed their feelings but it wasn't over the top and Jack & Laurelyn were still themselves just like the last book and did not change.

This time around Laurelyn has big choices to make involving her future. She is in the driver's seat of their relationship controlling Jack and her future together. I just adore Laurelyn too! I love her sarcastic personality and her tough wit; she is my favorite book heroine. Jack Henry's mother also was a star in this book. Can his family be any better? Laurelyn is a lucky girl!

The book does leave off with a possibility for a third book in the series sometime down the road. I really hope there is one because there are a few things left to be unsolved and of course I must know how Jack Henry & Laurelyn are doing. I was seriously swooning over the lines Jack said to Laurelyn... gosh this man is my god... like seriously!

The first half of the book is slow, which I LOVED! Sometimes I felt BFP went too fast so this was a nice change and more drawn out. The scene of Jack & Laurelyn seeing each other again for the first time is epic. I am glad it was played out well & slow; made it even better for us readers. About half way through the book, the book picks up speed and quickly goes through weeks and months. I did miss the slow speed of the book from the beginning, even the ending was a bit too fast for me.

I love this book and though it might not be as amazing as the first book in the series Beauty From Pain it is still really great! There are still a few questions left unanswered for me... mainly where certain characters went. I hope this is leading up to a third book. Georgia has said she plans to write a novel or novella for Jack & Laurelyn's story but not for awhile, I want it SOON!

Beauty From Surrender is a great second book for the series. I am always worried about second books but this did not disappoint! Jack Henry alone makes it perfect but the story and characters keep getting better as well.

Great Love Story

If you could sum up Beauty from Surrender in three words, what would they be?

Fantastic, sweet and loving

What did you like best about this story?

The pain and love of decision

How could the performance have been better?

Robert Black's accent as an Aussie is great. However, his voice of Laurenlyn was horrible. They should have had Bunny do Laurenlyn as herself. He does not do a good southern woman voice.

Who was the most memorable character of Beauty from Surrender and why?

Jack Henry. He was in love and thrown completely off by his feelings for Laurenlyn.

Any additional comments?

Narration is key to these audible books. Even though the story line was great and I will listen a second time to both books. I would like to have listened to better narration. I love a man with an accent but when a man tries to portray a women it just doesn't work.

Loved It

This story picks up where Beauty from Pain left off. You get points of view from Jack and Laurelyn. Jack has hired a PI to find Laurelyn and it's taken 3 months to hunt her down. Laurelyn left with the impression that Jack was find with ending their romance so when her career takes off she contemplates moving on with one of her band members. The drama doesn't end once they are hooked back up either. It's a lovely romance. The narration is excellent but remember you have the Australian dialect in there that might take some getting used to. This book is for adults only. Worth the credit or cash.

Good story

Loved the story but did not like the narrators voices. Terrible southern accent by both narrators.

Beautiful

Beautiful beautiful beautiful. this the second book of the series and it has to be read.

Great book, hated the faux Aussie accent

The narrator for Jack Henry's voice had the worst Aussie accent ever. It was one of those appalling combinations of an English and New Zealander accents that sound nothing like an Australian accent. The bad accent was really distracting, especially in the beginning.

Great Book

Loved it! ! Great story! I was very tickled with this book! I luv it!

Had to get this...

This is book 2 in the series and the cliffhanger from book 1 had me downloading this ASAP! We pick up where book 1 left off and our leading lady has made it back to the states and is trying to figure out her career...which she does. Meanwhile her handsome mystery man searches for her, unbeknownst to her.

This book has it's ups and downs, it's sweet moments and it's moment where I just want to turn off my phone and yell at these characters for being monumentally stupid...but then I want to cry because they want the same thing but their lives won't let it happen...or will it?

Good follow up book, the characters even felt more real in this sequel and I want to find out what happens in book 3 but to be honest I'm exhausted by these two at the moment so I think I'll take a break...which the lack of a cliffhanger allows me to :-)

The narrators are still the same...I could be imagining it but I think the southern twang has become a bit better, but overall I'm still disappointed by the woman's version of the mens voices and I'm really disappointing in the man's version of both genders. The women sound like they are drugged up and the man voices...gesh...adjust the speed or something I swear it sounds like he is reporting a horse race not a love scene!

Overall, still recommended.