Born to Love

Rating:
Summary: a good read
Review: easy and fast read, just the thing to have while waiting at the doctor's office.

Rating:
Summary: Holt and Felicity-SPOILERS
Review: Favorite scene with Felicity-
Telling her father to help Holt, or she'll never speak to him again.

Favorite scene with Holt-
Spying on the bad dudes to find the traitor.

Together-
Felicity's made to listen to Holt tell her how much he loves her after he's shot.

Rating:
Summary: fine post Civil War romance
Review: In 1867, Holt Price plans to never work as a doctor again as he lives the horror of butcher assembly line surgical conditions caused by the Civil War bloodbath. All he wants is to forget the atrocities and medicine, and find his beloved and marry her. However, he cannot ignore his need for vengeance against the traitor who sold out his unit, leading to a slaughter.

In Galveston, Holt gets involved in the surgery of an accident victim with a spoke stuck through his leg. The town physician Dr. Moore never worked this type of accident besides which he is drunk. At Moore's office, Holt meets his medical peer's daughter Felicity, who helps. They are attracted to one another, but she fears he will expose her father as an alcoholic and he fears getting entangled with her as his own father was a drunk.

This fine post Civil War romance emphasizes the traumas and healing of people trying to regain equilibrium after the world went berserk for a few years. Trying to cope with alcoholism is brilliantly handled though why Felicity thinks no one knows her dad is a drunk seems like too much rationalizing. Leigh Greenwood continues to write some of the strongest historical romances of the past decade; BORN TO LOVE is further proof of this.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: fine post Civil War romance
Review: In 1867, Holt Price plans to never work as a doctor again as he lives the horror of butcher assembly line surgical conditions caused by the Civil War bloodbath. All he wants is to forget the atrocities and medicine, and find his beloved and marry her. However, he cannot ignore his need for vengeance against the traitor who sold out his unit, leading to a slaughter.

In Galveston, Holt gets involved in the surgery of an accident victim with a spoke stuck through his leg. The town physician Dr. Moore never worked this type of accident besides which he is drunk. At Moore's office, Holt meets his medical peer's daughter Felicity, who helps. They are attracted to one another, but she fears he will expose her father as an alcoholic and he fears getting entangled with her as his own father was a drunk.

This fine post Civil War romance emphasizes the traumas and healing of people trying to regain equilibrium after the world went berserk for a few years. Trying to cope with alcoholism is brilliantly handled though why Felicity thinks no one knows her dad is a drunk seems like too much rationalizing. Leigh Greenwood continues to write some of the strongest historical romances of the past decade; BORN TO LOVE is further proof of this.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: Not very light-hearted!
Review: Not a bad romance though I found it way to predictable. I am used to being able to predict stories but this one I saw everything coming to the point that I found it boring.

It did do a good job dealing with Alcoholism and co-dependency though which I thought was interesting in a romance story.

I guess my biggest disappointment is that I usually like romance stories to also make me laugh and enjoy the writing.

Rating:
Summary: Not very light-hearted!
Review: Not a bad romance though I found it way to predictable. I am used to being able to predict stories but this one I saw everything coming to the point that I found it boring.

It did do a good job dealing with Alcoholism and co-dependency though which I thought was interesting in a romance story.

I guess my biggest disappointment is that I usually like romance stories to also make me laugh and enjoy the writing.