{"id":11358,"date":"2019-01-07T19:56:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:10:41","slug":"hello-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11358","title":{"rendered":"Hello Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Stranger<\/a><\/em> (2018) Lisa Kleypas<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Set in England in 1876<\/p>\n

Dr. Garrett Gibson is the only female doctor in England, and has spent so much time proving she’s good enough, she’s spared nothing for herself.<\/p>\n

Ethan Ransom is a Ravanel bastard, former detective for Scotland Yard, and secret agent for the government. He’s also extremely unhappy about the power wielded by his boss and mentor, a man who fully believes that the ends justify the means.<\/p>\n

Garrett gave him a skeptical glance. \u201cAre you a truthful man, Mr. Ransom?\u201d <\/p>\n

He laughed quietly. \u201cWith my job?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I particularly liked her colleague, Dr Havelock. He respects Garrett’s skill, but he still worries about her. He also does the right thing, even though in the story it feels like the wrong thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you\u2019re well aware, girls are taught from early childhood that any interest in the workings of their own bodies is shameful. A young woman is praised and admired for her ignorance of sexual matters until her wedding night, when she\u2019s finally introduced to intimacy with pain and confusion. Some of my female patients are so reluctant to discuss their own anatomy that they have to point to an area on a doll to tell me where it hurts. I can scarcely imagine how difficult it must be for a woman to take responsibility for her physical health when she\u2019s always been told she hasn\u2019t the moral or legal right to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think I appreciated that coming from the male doctor all the more than if it had come from Garrett. It’s a reminder that yes, things were awful for women, but not all men were part of the problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur existence, even our intellect, hangs upon love\u2014 without it, we would be no more than stock and stones.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to the romance, the story has–not a mystery per se, since we know who that bad guy is–but action and adventure, as Ransom attempts to stop the plotting of the man who taught him to be an agent.<\/p>\n

I also enjoyed the medical bits.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may wish to look away, Mr. Ravenel,\u201d Garrett murmured, \u201cand keep making a fist.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cCall me West.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know you well enough for that.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re draining the life essence from my median basilic,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cI\u2019m on a first-name basis with women who\u2019ve done far less to me than that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also really liked that Garret was based upon a real-life historical doctor, Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.<\/p>\n

Lots of boinking, but I did quite enjoy the story.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Avon
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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