Book Review
Title: Surrender to a Playboy
Author: Erio Hori
Genre: Manga
Rating: *****
Review: So, this synopsis sounds like a perfect adaptation to the manga format: “Mary works for a woman of great wealth who has asked Mary to send for her grandson, Bonner, whom she hasn’t seen for several years. So Mary sent letter after letter to Bonner, asking him to come. When her letters go ignored, she writes a final letter to him, saying that he will be disinherited if he fails to come. When Bonner shows up after her last letter, Mary is furious with the good-for-nothing. But something about this seemingly gentle, handsome man makes her feelings waver. She knows he’s a heartless playboy…so why is she attracted to him?”
We learn very early on that Bonner doesn’t actually come to his grandmother’s as he can’t leave the state because of a crime he committed so in his place he sends his best friend and lawyer Taggart. When Taggart meets Mary, he is instantly smitten which is something he wasn’t expecting after the sudden death of his wife Annalisa.
While Mary is extremely hostile towards “Bonner” because of the playboy lifestyle she finds herself falling for him, however, when is ex-girlfriend Lee shows up, she avoids him, even more, believe in his image and reputation rather than what she can see in front of her. Things take a different turn when Joe her half-sister Becca’s father runs away with her after the court granted Mary 2 weeks with her sister. From behind the scenes, Taggart who Mary still believes is Bonner pulls some strings and hire a private detective to find Becca while also leads to Joe being arrested. This means that Mary gets full custody of her sister as her mother is dead.
When she talks to Miz Witty, Bonner’s grandmother about it she shows Mary a photo of Taggart and Bonner and when she calls Taggart’s office, she learns that Bonner is in court today. Upon learning this Miz Witty asks her to fly to the court and find out what is going on but when she arrives the man she had known as Bonner is defending the real Bonner. That’s when Mary learns of the real deception but Taggart after winning the case is moving away and in a last-ditch effort to talk to him, Mary jumps into the cab Taggart is in.
In the cab, he confesses that despite not knowing her long he has fallen completely in love with her and for the first time Mary admits to herself that she has fallen in love with this man despite thinking her was Bonner for the whole time she knew him. The ending of this story was great, Taggart and Mary end up as a couple and it is almost like they have a child of their own in Becca. A wonderful family story.
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I received this review copy from NetGalley
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