Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / epistolary / Fiction / fish-out-of-water / London / long distance relationship / nurse / PTSD / Scotland7 Comments
Lissa, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissa to spend a few months doing a much ... more >
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I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbook editor / Contemporary / friends-to-lovers / London / nurse / POC / roommates15 Comments
Dear Beth O’Leary, I read your debut contemporary two weeks ago, a book I think many DA readers would like. It’s an epistolary romance called The Flatshare. Tiffy Moore needs to move out of her cheating ex-boyfriend’s apartment, but can’t afford the rent in London. So when she stumbles on ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsdoctor hero / Hanukkah / holiday novella / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / novella / nurse / War / Military / World War II3 Comments
1944 Ardennes, WWII Lt. Ruth Mencher has always secretly admired Capt. Joseph Klein, but it takes the lighting of a Hanukkah candle to uncover the spark of mutual attraction. Each night awakens a new facet of their relationship, but as the Battle of the Bulge begins, the approaching Nazi forces ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsdoctor hero / England / family relationships / Netherlands / nurse7 Comments
She’d do anything for the children’s sake Georgina Rodman had been given a special nursing assignment—she was to look after the Van den Berg Eyffert children, who were recovering from an accident. Having worked in a casualty ward, Georgina felt she could cope with just about anything life threw at ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews1980s / enemies to lovers / England / nurse / Portugal6 Comments
Perhaps her dream of love was only a dream “Working nights in a London hospital is no life for a young girl!” Her mother hadn’t actually said it, but Judith knew she was thinking it.In a way, Judith agreed, but what else could she do? Marry Nigel? No, she didn’t ... more >
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