I think this will shape up to be a medical plot, but we'll have to wait and see. It looks like one, definitely - Britannia (or Staff Nurse Smith, whichever you'd rather call her) meets Professor Jake Luitingh van Thien when he comes to the hospital to consult on some cases. Handily enough, he first sees her when she is protecting a helpless nurse from a mean one. He's quiet at first, then a bit of a jerk ("an ill-tempered man, and arrogant, she considered", p. 15).
But despite that, the very next sentence is this: "And over and above that [the ill temper and arrogance], she discovered with an almighty shock, the man she wished to marry", because although they just met a few hours before, she's in love with him.
Oooo-kay. Any objectivity I might have had about Britannia just flew out the window; she fell in love with a jerk by page 16! She has to work overtime, so he does take her out for tea and sandwiches later in the chapter. I guess that's something in his favor.
He asks her whether she's in love, and she says yes - with him, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if that causes some confusion later on.
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Looks kind of appropriate to me. I can appreciate some comments made without even reading the books because while they can be very cliched, that fault is also what makes them somewhat enetertaining, right?
Examining one author in particular makes it a little more interesting. How many different variations or ways is she capable of using in order to keep the writing "fresh"?
These books must be quick to read through as well because many of the same concepts and ideas are reused in other titles.
Well, this is my opinion least.
somehow my name didn't register on the last comment. Btw, the above is a general observation on this blog page of yours
The blog started as a way to track differences in all the different books. I tried to do it with a website (creating a table), but I kept thinking of new fields. Very inefficient. So blogging works better, because I can use the labels as a way to sort the books.
Yeah, that's the fascinating thing about this author - all of her books are so similar. I genuinely liked the first one I read (in high school - I used to get free romances from a friend who worked at a bookstore), and then I just kept finding more.
I'd guess that the writing (or concepts ) are "fresh" in only about 10% of her books.
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