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Glenmore Island Doctors #3
Terug op Glenmore
Heerlijk romantische feelgood over de dokters op het Schotse eiland Glenmore.
Terug op Glenmore
De rebelse Conner MacNeil wilde nooit terug naar Glenmore, maar nu wordt hij er de nieuwe arts. Zijn reputatie is alleen zo slecht, dat niemand op het eiland door hem geholpen wil worden! Wanneer hij de mooie Flora ontmoet, is hij bang dat een relatie met hem haar goede naam zal schaden. Heeft hij zijn kans op liefde verspeeld?
Terug op Glenmore
De rebelse Conner MacNeil wilde nooit terug naar Glenmore, maar nu wordt hij er de nieuwe arts. Zijn reputatie is alleen zo slecht, dat niemand op het eiland door hem geholpen wil worden! Wanneer hij de mooie Flora ontmoet, is hij bang dat een relatie met hem haar goede naam zal schaden. Heeft hij zijn kans op liefde verspeeld?
126 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2008
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Sarah Morgan
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USA Today and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan writes romance and contemporary women's fiction and her trademark humour and warmth have gained her fans across the globe. Sarah lives near London, England, and when she isn't reading or writing she loves being outdoors.
Look out for Sarah's next novel coming in May - Brave New Summer (UK title)/ Five Star Summer (US/Canadian title)
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February 18, 2012
I found this book when I transferred ebooks from my computer to my new e-reader. I know I didn't buy it, so it must be one of the free Harlequins from the 60th anniversary batch. It's a Harlequin Medical, which is an imprint I wasn't previously aware of. And it delivered plenty of medical stuff - family medicine, obscure syndromes, obstetrics, emergencies with gushing blood, and plenty of names and dosage of drugs, equipment, and even a little bit of first aid instruction.
This book had promise, but it was terribly flawed in many ways. Well, in one significant way: the characters were all cardboard, their interactions superficial, their beliefs and motivations ridiculous. I cried out, "oh come on!" many times reading this book.
The setting is the island of Glenmore, off the coast of Scotland. There is a ferry to the mainland, which brings tourists to the island, but apparently not many of the islanders ever leave. Which might explain the shortage of common sense, empathy, and intelligence on the island; such commodities can't swim, and the tourists don't have room for them among their holiday baggage.
The hero, Conner MacNeill, and the heroine, Flora Harris, both grew up on Glenmore. Conner was the island Bad Boy, and Flora was the Shy Girl. Both left the island, but recently returned - he as a doctor, she as a nurse, working in the community medical practice with Conner's cousin Logan, another doctor whose wife, the midwife, is heavily pregnant.
Conner's mother left when he was a child, and his father died in the twenty years that Conner has been gone from the island. His father was a violent, abusive drunk. But all anyone in the town knows or remembers about Conner is that he was The Bad Boy, and there's hardly anyone - apart from Logan and Flora - who even countenance the idea that twenty years as an army doctor could have changed Conner for the better.
The belief that Conner is Incurably Bad, and came back to the island To Make Trouble is so deeply entrenched that one has to wonder about the basic intelligence and humanity of the island residents. Some of them refuse to see Conner when they come to see the doctor, preferring instead to wait a week to see Logan, whose caseload is already overflowing. One old biddy remarks that Conner's mother left because Conner was so badly behaved, and then his poor father had to put up with Conner on his own. (Because this is what mothers are famous for: abandoning their families because of misbehaving children.) There was apparently no one on the entire small island, adult or child, who had the perceptiveness to see beyond Conner's childhood misbehaviour to the troubled soul, or notice his father's drunken abusiveness. There was no adult in Conner's childhood who ever tried to offer comfort or help, encouragement or mentorship, safety or understanding.
Glenmore is home to the most socially dysfunctional people in all of Scotland. Don't ever go there.
We are told that Conner was a Bad Boy in his youth, but he demonstrates nothing but calm competence and (on one occasion) heroism once back on the island. Because this is a medical drama, and he's been an army doctor, he gets to demonstrate some battlefield sangfroid in an emergency. A four-year-old girl falls into the bay, but she doesn't just fall in the bay, she also severs a leg artery on the edge of a boat propellor and starts pumping blood into the bay. The quayside is crowded, but only Conner has the presence of mind to jump into the water to pull the girl out. Flora is also there, and this allegedly experienced nurse freezes up at the sight of so much spurting arterial blood, because she's never worked in Accident & Emergency, and she literally doesn't know what to do. (Apparently the Scottish nursing education doesn't include a forced intimate acquaintance with the various bodily fluids, of which blood is both the most common and the most plentiful!) Conner has to talk her through the basics of applying a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Seriously, she doesn't even know whether the tourniquet goes over, above, or below the wound. Presumably the author (or the publisher) thought a little first-aid instruction for the reader was more important than actual story at that point.
As often happens, the injured child's mother takes exception to Conner having any part in the rescue of her gravely injured four-year-old, and tries bodily to push the best-trained medical professional on the island away from the limp, bloody body he pulls from the frigid bay. Presumably so that Jim the ferryman, or one of the gawping tourists, can help instead.
We are also told that Flora was the Shy Girl in her youth, but there's not a shred of evidence of shyness in the adult Flora, who chats happily on a variety of subjects with Conner, and is the one who initiates their sexual relationship. The only evidence that she's shy is that she's very private, and prefers not to have the entire island know her business.
Conner's cousin Logan lost his first wife in childbirth, and apparently the trauma of this event trumps his medical education and experience, because he borders on paranoid hysteria about the impending birth, and becomes irrational and violent when a storm makes it necessary to entrust his labouring wife to the care of his cousin the doctor and the practice nurse.
The thing that really killed me, though, what Conner telling Flora that his mother left when he was a child, because her husband beat her. Flora asks why she didn't take Conner with her, and Conner explains that she had no choice; if she had taken Conner, his father would have followed them. And he is completely dispassionate when he says it. And that was my biggest "oh come on!" moment. I was really hoping that there would be an emotional reveal about this later in the book – child abandoned by his mother and left to the tender mercies of an abusive, drunk father provides a rich vein - but there wasn't. So Conner, who had all the promise of being a really complex character with Big Issues To Sort Through turned out to be just as cardboard as the rest of them, in the end.
This book had promise, but it was terribly flawed in many ways. Well, in one significant way: the characters were all cardboard, their interactions superficial, their beliefs and motivations ridiculous. I cried out, "oh come on!" many times reading this book.
The setting is the island of Glenmore, off the coast of Scotland. There is a ferry to the mainland, which brings tourists to the island, but apparently not many of the islanders ever leave. Which might explain the shortage of common sense, empathy, and intelligence on the island; such commodities can't swim, and the tourists don't have room for them among their holiday baggage.
The hero, Conner MacNeill, and the heroine, Flora Harris, both grew up on Glenmore. Conner was the island Bad Boy, and Flora was the Shy Girl. Both left the island, but recently returned - he as a doctor, she as a nurse, working in the community medical practice with Conner's cousin Logan, another doctor whose wife, the midwife, is heavily pregnant.
Conner's mother left when he was a child, and his father died in the twenty years that Conner has been gone from the island. His father was a violent, abusive drunk. But all anyone in the town knows or remembers about Conner is that he was The Bad Boy, and there's hardly anyone - apart from Logan and Flora - who even countenance the idea that twenty years as an army doctor could have changed Conner for the better.
The belief that Conner is Incurably Bad, and came back to the island To Make Trouble is so deeply entrenched that one has to wonder about the basic intelligence and humanity of the island residents. Some of them refuse to see Conner when they come to see the doctor, preferring instead to wait a week to see Logan, whose caseload is already overflowing. One old biddy remarks that Conner's mother left because Conner was so badly behaved, and then his poor father had to put up with Conner on his own. (Because this is what mothers are famous for: abandoning their families because of misbehaving children.) There was apparently no one on the entire small island, adult or child, who had the perceptiveness to see beyond Conner's childhood misbehaviour to the troubled soul, or notice his father's drunken abusiveness. There was no adult in Conner's childhood who ever tried to offer comfort or help, encouragement or mentorship, safety or understanding.
Glenmore is home to the most socially dysfunctional people in all of Scotland. Don't ever go there.
We are told that Conner was a Bad Boy in his youth, but he demonstrates nothing but calm competence and (on one occasion) heroism once back on the island. Because this is a medical drama, and he's been an army doctor, he gets to demonstrate some battlefield sangfroid in an emergency. A four-year-old girl falls into the bay, but she doesn't just fall in the bay, she also severs a leg artery on the edge of a boat propellor and starts pumping blood into the bay. The quayside is crowded, but only Conner has the presence of mind to jump into the water to pull the girl out. Flora is also there, and this allegedly experienced nurse freezes up at the sight of so much spurting arterial blood, because she's never worked in Accident & Emergency, and she literally doesn't know what to do. (Apparently the Scottish nursing education doesn't include a forced intimate acquaintance with the various bodily fluids, of which blood is both the most common and the most plentiful!) Conner has to talk her through the basics of applying a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Seriously, she doesn't even know whether the tourniquet goes over, above, or below the wound. Presumably the author (or the publisher) thought a little first-aid instruction for the reader was more important than actual story at that point.
As often happens, the injured child's mother takes exception to Conner having any part in the rescue of her gravely injured four-year-old, and tries bodily to push the best-trained medical professional on the island away from the limp, bloody body he pulls from the frigid bay. Presumably so that Jim the ferryman, or one of the gawping tourists, can help instead.
We are also told that Flora was the Shy Girl in her youth, but there's not a shred of evidence of shyness in the adult Flora, who chats happily on a variety of subjects with Conner, and is the one who initiates their sexual relationship. The only evidence that she's shy is that she's very private, and prefers not to have the entire island know her business.
Conner's cousin Logan lost his first wife in childbirth, and apparently the trauma of this event trumps his medical education and experience, because he borders on paranoid hysteria about the impending birth, and becomes irrational and violent when a storm makes it necessary to entrust his labouring wife to the care of his cousin the doctor and the practice nurse.
The thing that really killed me, though, what Conner telling Flora that his mother left when he was a child, because her husband beat her. Flora asks why she didn't take Conner with her, and Conner explains that she had no choice; if she had taken Conner, his father would have followed them. And he is completely dispassionate when he says it. And that was my biggest "oh come on!" moment. I was really hoping that there would be an emotional reveal about this later in the book – child abandoned by his mother and left to the tender mercies of an abusive, drunk father provides a rich vein - but there wasn't. So Conner, who had all the promise of being a really complex character with Big Issues To Sort Through turned out to be just as cardboard as the rest of them, in the end.
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October 15, 2020
Voto: 3.5
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September 18, 2020Carinissimo!!! Classica storia del cattivo (con un bel retroscena) e della timida secchiona (anche lei avrà da raccontare).
January 16, 2013
I totally loved this book. Once again SM proves that she is a great storyteller.
Nurse Flora has the chock of her life. Conner the famous bad boy is back on Glenmore island. She had a crush on Conner but she was a shy teenager and she may be the only girl he didn't kiss back then. Conner has done good by himself. He has become a doctor and Flora can't help herself falling for him all over again. But the islanders doesn't trust him. They still see the troublemaker bad boy. It took a miracle - rescuing a little girl from a near death - for the islanders to see the true Conner. And it took shy Flora an act of courage to win the love of her life.
Nurse Flora has the chock of her life. Conner the famous bad boy is back on Glenmore island. She had a crush on Conner but she was a shy teenager and she may be the only girl he didn't kiss back then. Conner has done good by himself. He has become a doctor and Flora can't help herself falling for him all over again. But the islanders doesn't trust him. They still see the troublemaker bad boy. It took a miracle - rescuing a little girl from a near death - for the islanders to see the true Conner. And it took shy Flora an act of courage to win the love of her life.
May 18, 2009
An experienced nurse whose never heard of Lyme disease and is freaked out by an accident featuring lots o' blood? heh.
March 3, 2024
Ik weet niet of ik deel 4 aankan zo'n bouquetreeks is dit🤣
August 7, 2022
Dopo oltre 10 anni il bad boy dell'isola, Conner McNeal ritorna a casa.
Tutti ricordano il ragazzo ribelle che combinava un sacco di guai e lo condannano a prescindere.
Ora è un medico ed è stato assunto dal cugino Logan nell'ambulatorio dell'isola, peccato che nessuno voglia farsi visitare da lui.
Anche l'infermiera Flora si ricorda di lui dai tempi dell'adolescenza e parte un po' prevenuta, ma bastano pochi giorni per ricredersi.
Conner è davvero un ottimo medico e si merita una seconda possibilità.
E forse anche i sentimenti che Flora provava per lui quando erano ragazzini non sono mai svaniti.
Flora era, ed è tuttora, una ragazza timida e riservata che passava inosservata.
Tra i due però c'è una forte attrazione che cercano di soffocare. Forse è arrivato il momento che Flora tiri fuori la testa dalla sabbia e inizi a vivere liberamente?
Allora, la storia mi è piaciuta fino al capitolo finale quando l'autrice decide di far fare al nostro protagonista un'azione completamente al di fuori del personaggio ma in linea con la tipologia di libro, e mi è scaduto totalmente.
Conner è un ragazzo che ha passato un'infanzia e un'adolescenza terribile. La madre se ne è andata lasciandolo con un padre alcolizzato.
Nessuno si curava di lui e quindi per attirare l'attenzione inizia a compiere atti vandalici e a scandalizzare gli abitanti del luogo.
Ora è un uomo cambiato ma per gli abitanti dell'isola è rimasto quel ragazzaccio.
I due protagonisti sono azzeccati, insieme stanno molto bene.
E appunto andava tutto bene fino al capitolo finale che mi ha fatto girare gli occhi verso il cielo.
I libri di questa serie sono un po' tutto uguali nella trama, quindi non aspettatevi niente di nuovo ma per passare un paio di ore di assoluto relax vanno benissimo.
Tutti ricordano il ragazzo ribelle che combinava un sacco di guai e lo condannano a prescindere.
Ora è un medico ed è stato assunto dal cugino Logan nell'ambulatorio dell'isola, peccato che nessuno voglia farsi visitare da lui.
Anche l'infermiera Flora si ricorda di lui dai tempi dell'adolescenza e parte un po' prevenuta, ma bastano pochi giorni per ricredersi.
Conner è davvero un ottimo medico e si merita una seconda possibilità.
E forse anche i sentimenti che Flora provava per lui quando erano ragazzini non sono mai svaniti.
Flora era, ed è tuttora, una ragazza timida e riservata che passava inosservata.
Tra i due però c'è una forte attrazione che cercano di soffocare. Forse è arrivato il momento che Flora tiri fuori la testa dalla sabbia e inizi a vivere liberamente?
Allora, la storia mi è piaciuta fino al capitolo finale quando l'autrice decide di far fare al nostro protagonista un'azione completamente al di fuori del personaggio ma in linea con la tipologia di libro, e mi è scaduto totalmente.
Conner è un ragazzo che ha passato un'infanzia e un'adolescenza terribile. La madre se ne è andata lasciandolo con un padre alcolizzato.
Nessuno si curava di lui e quindi per attirare l'attenzione inizia a compiere atti vandalici e a scandalizzare gli abitanti del luogo.
Ora è un uomo cambiato ma per gli abitanti dell'isola è rimasto quel ragazzaccio.
I due protagonisti sono azzeccati, insieme stanno molto bene.
E appunto andava tutto bene fino al capitolo finale che mi ha fatto girare gli occhi verso il cielo.
I libri di questa serie sono un po' tutto uguali nella trama, quindi non aspettatevi niente di nuovo ma per passare un paio di ore di assoluto relax vanno benissimo.
May 13, 2025
Conner kreeg de vraag om terug te keren, om het huisartsen team in Glenmore te versterken. Echter zit niemand van de eilandbewoners op hem te wachten. Hoe kan die rebelse jongen dokter zijn geworden! En dan nog aankomen scheuren op een motor. In het leger heeft hij zijn artsen opleiding gedaan, het heeft hem ook gevormd en gemaakt wie hij nu is.
Flora is verpleegkundige in de praktijk en had ooit wel een oogje op Conner. Maar dat was vroeger, of is er toch nog die aantrekkingskracht die haar hart voor hem sneller doet slaan?
In “terug op Glenmore” krijgen we vooral weer kijk en zicht op de huisartsen praktijk van het eiland. De andere personages waar we al eerder mee hebben kennis gemaakt, duiken ook in dit deel nog regelmatig op, wat erg leuk is.
Dit deel gaat vooral over verleden en heden dat tegenover elkaar continu moet opboksen. Hoe vooringenomen mensen zijn, hoe stug, star en hard een gemeenschap kan zijn.
Romantiek met veel badboy en good girl gehalte, spanning en drama geeft in het praktijk gebeuren en mooie beelden geeft van het eiland.
Sarah Morgan had me weer helemaal in de greep, dit is echt lezen en ontspannen.
Feelgood van het type roze wolken en hartjes in de ogen!
3,4 ster
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Flora is verpleegkundige in de praktijk en had ooit wel een oogje op Conner. Maar dat was vroeger, of is er toch nog die aantrekkingskracht die haar hart voor hem sneller doet slaan?
In “terug op Glenmore” krijgen we vooral weer kijk en zicht op de huisartsen praktijk van het eiland. De andere personages waar we al eerder mee hebben kennis gemaakt, duiken ook in dit deel nog regelmatig op, wat erg leuk is.
Dit deel gaat vooral over verleden en heden dat tegenover elkaar continu moet opboksen. Hoe vooringenomen mensen zijn, hoe stug, star en hard een gemeenschap kan zijn.
Romantiek met veel badboy en good girl gehalte, spanning en drama geeft in het praktijk gebeuren en mooie beelden geeft van het eiland.
Sarah Morgan had me weer helemaal in de greep, dit is echt lezen en ontspannen.
Feelgood van het type roze wolken en hartjes in de ogen!
3,4 ster
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October 27, 2020
The title of this book promised a lot of good it did not deliver. [SPOILER] Conner, being a bad boy, is back in Glenmore Island. He is not accepted. Flora, the town's sweetheart, falls for Conner. They have a fling that is planned on ending due to Conner leaving. It annoys me that Sarah Morgan moves fast in this series. The moment they fall in love, marriage is being proposed. Maybe it's something that is expected in a Harlequin novel, but it doesn't work for me in this series.
May 1, 2019
Awesome
Loved loved loved this book. Good girl and the bad boy. One of the best relationships ever to be formed in history and so well described in this book. Only complaint, ok wasn’t long enough!!!
Loved loved loved this book. Good girl and the bad boy. One of the best relationships ever to be formed in history and so well described in this book. Only complaint, ok wasn’t long enough!!!
November 12, 2023
Very real characters - someone with a past others won't let him forget, and a quiet sensible girl who still has dreams, even though they seem impossible. I haven't read a Sarah Morgan book for a while, but I always enjoy them. It was nice to go back to Glenmore and read another in this series.
September 11, 2023
Goed, maar zeer voorspelbaar.
May 13, 2024
Former local bad boy comes home, bumps into now-grown-up shy girl. Gossip ensues.
August 25, 2024
It was a good listen
April 12, 2015
Flora has come home to be a nurse in the general medical practice on the island where she grew up. Conner black jacket motorcycles home to be the GP in the above, but he left the island under a cloud of being the bad boy, and the locals all huff and go on about it. Flora had a huge crush on Conner growing up, but he never noticed her, probably because she was shy and reading. Except Conner did notice her, even though she was shy and reading. He just never snogged her.
Conner’s crimes are that his parents divorced and his mother left him with his dad. He kissed all the girls, and may have made several of them cry. He shoplifted stuff to build a bomb, and he blew up the chemistry lab. He was kind of a big deal.
Flora is initially not terribly impressed to be working with Conner, what with him being bad, and her completely ignored and unrequited love. She’s fairly soon persuaded that he is in fact an awesome person, and heroic. Conner’s not spreading it about, but he was an army doctor and has seen it all. Conner decides that Flora is very attractive and he’ll attempt to keep his hands off her. When that doesn’t work, he decides that it’s best that they sneak around, to preserve her reputation.
This is all ok … not every conflict has to be high stakes. Small communities are not without their attractions, and there is something very satisfying in a story of a reputation redeemed. However Conner is too cool to care that the islanders are scandalised by his return, and refuse to consult him as a doctor. His indifference for most of the book means that the reputation redemption is really not terribly important. I tend to prefer it as the heroine’s story, because she’s the main character in the romance, and therefore should be the one who should suffer the most. Flora’s story is more about overcoming her shyness to take a stand and get what she wants, and that’s sweet but not altogether satisfying.
I’m also not that fussed about GPs. I’m not that fussed about medicals in general, but I don’t find GPs glamorous because I mainly associate them with a five minute consult from which I emerge $65 poorer and in possession of a medical certificate to cover the rest of a week off work. Morgan gives both Conner and Flora some interesting medical things to do, including a life saving kid rescue, but I just can’t work up enough interest in the diagnosis and treatments of various ailments. It’s not precisely zero interest … it’s just less interest than I would have in characters who were doing detective or legal stuff, and about the same amount of interest in characters doing accounting stuff.
This book is probably too subtle for me, but I found Flora and Conner to be agreeable characters and their story is sweet and relaxing.
Conner’s crimes are that his parents divorced and his mother left him with his dad. He kissed all the girls, and may have made several of them cry. He shoplifted stuff to build a bomb, and he blew up the chemistry lab. He was kind of a big deal.
Flora is initially not terribly impressed to be working with Conner, what with him being bad, and her completely ignored and unrequited love. She’s fairly soon persuaded that he is in fact an awesome person, and heroic. Conner’s not spreading it about, but he was an army doctor and has seen it all. Conner decides that Flora is very attractive and he’ll attempt to keep his hands off her. When that doesn’t work, he decides that it’s best that they sneak around, to preserve her reputation.
This is all ok … not every conflict has to be high stakes. Small communities are not without their attractions, and there is something very satisfying in a story of a reputation redeemed. However Conner is too cool to care that the islanders are scandalised by his return, and refuse to consult him as a doctor. His indifference for most of the book means that the reputation redemption is really not terribly important. I tend to prefer it as the heroine’s story, because she’s the main character in the romance, and therefore should be the one who should suffer the most. Flora’s story is more about overcoming her shyness to take a stand and get what she wants, and that’s sweet but not altogether satisfying.
I’m also not that fussed about GPs. I’m not that fussed about medicals in general, but I don’t find GPs glamorous because I mainly associate them with a five minute consult from which I emerge $65 poorer and in possession of a medical certificate to cover the rest of a week off work. Morgan gives both Conner and Flora some interesting medical things to do, including a life saving kid rescue, but I just can’t work up enough interest in the diagnosis and treatments of various ailments. It’s not precisely zero interest … it’s just less interest than I would have in characters who were doing detective or legal stuff, and about the same amount of interest in characters doing accounting stuff.
This book is probably too subtle for me, but I found Flora and Conner to be agreeable characters and their story is sweet and relaxing.
June 25, 2016
Reformed rakes are always a favorite class of heroes for me.
Because whatever hell raising they have in their life quota, they have already exhausted it before they meet the girl. So she gets only the good parts, for the rest of her life ;)
Much better than marrying a good guy who gets bored with his goodness after a few years of marriage !
Here our rake is not really a bad boy, he is just a victim of a poor childhood, rebel without a cause.
And he is a doctor , not some drunken wastrel who cant put food on the table.
I know we women love to reform our rakes, but we certainly prefer the billionaire ones among them don't we ;)
Our girl is a near-virgin and the only girl in town the rake hasn't touched !! So when he gets back into town after a sobering stint in the army, he does all the touching he missed out on earlier. And she is loving it !! In fact she has to resort to seducing him at first because he thinks she is too lovely and holy !! Oh, a rake with a conscience.
Medical context suits the plot, I loved the pace, the lead characters and the town in general, where the story is set. Good read , 4 stars.
Because whatever hell raising they have in their life quota, they have already exhausted it before they meet the girl. So she gets only the good parts, for the rest of her life ;)
Much better than marrying a good guy who gets bored with his goodness after a few years of marriage !
Here our rake is not really a bad boy, he is just a victim of a poor childhood, rebel without a cause.
And he is a doctor , not some drunken wastrel who cant put food on the table.
I know we women love to reform our rakes, but we certainly prefer the billionaire ones among them don't we ;)
Our girl is a near-virgin and the only girl in town the rake hasn't touched !! So when he gets back into town after a sobering stint in the army, he does all the touching he missed out on earlier. And she is loving it !! In fact she has to resort to seducing him at first because he thinks she is too lovely and holy !! Oh, a rake with a conscience.
Medical context suits the plot, I loved the pace, the lead characters and the town in general, where the story is set. Good read , 4 stars.
August 12, 2020
2nd read: 8 Aug 2020. Not sure if I would necessarily rate it 5 stars again. Closer to 4 stars. However, it would remain my fave of the series.
1st read: 2019. My fave of all the series. I really felt a connection to both Conner and Flora as individuals and couples. Conner, who is misunderstood, misaligned and yet honourable. Flora, who is shy, kind and brave and who has been crushing on Conner since early years. Both characters really shone despite the length of this book, and there was real depth in their interactions. I loved their scenes together and it felt genuine. I loved that beautiful scene where they went sailing, and I loved Flora's declaration at the pub. Of course, I wanted more backstory on Conner and Flora's families, but it didn't hinder the overall feel.
1st read: 2019. My fave of all the series. I really felt a connection to both Conner and Flora as individuals and couples. Conner, who is misunderstood, misaligned and yet honourable. Flora, who is shy, kind and brave and who has been crushing on Conner since early years. Both characters really shone despite the length of this book, and there was real depth in their interactions. I loved their scenes together and it felt genuine. I loved that beautiful scene where they went sailing, and I loved Flora's declaration at the pub. Of course, I wanted more backstory on Conner and Flora's families, but it didn't hinder the overall feel.
January 12, 2014
I've never read a medical title before, so I wasn't sure what to expect from that angle. It was perhaps a little more jargon related that I would have liked, but otherwise, revolving around doctors and nurses and their careers, that was fine. Less fine was the bad boy returning to a small town where no one trusts him to be their doctor part. My fault for not reading the summary more closely, but that's just not a story that works for me. I'll definitely give another one of her titles in this line a try.
August 31, 2010
I liked this book more than some of the others from the free Harlequin anniversary giveaway. I liked the end...I love it when a character makes a major change for the better and does it on their own....I liked that Flora, normally impossibly shy, found a courage inside her and used it to declare her love.
It was a very tame romance and there where parts where the author said "so and so swore". I wish she would have used the words in actual dialog...it would have felt more authentic.
It was a very tame romance and there where parts where the author said "so and so swore". I wish she would have used the words in actual dialog...it would have felt more authentic.
December 26, 2016
It's strange how I missed Sarah Morgan's stories. Maybe that's why I liked this one so much? It was fun, sexy and a little conspirational. I guess life on this island was a really boring one if gossip was a favorite pastime of everyone. I liked both hero and heroine they are so likable and not annoying at all. Who were annoying -- islanders. Should have let them be. I wonder if they indeed left the island? I hope they did even though that mean they stood out Logan.
January 10, 2010
This is a good book from the Harlequin Medical line that is set in a small town in Scotland. The bad boy returns to town to help out his cousin Logan in his medical practice where he meets his practice nurse again though she was the only female that it seemed that he didn't have an affair with when they were younger.
August 17, 2014
One of the stories republished in Summer Kisses
Book 3 of the Glenmore doctor series
Though the characters of the first two books are mentioned in the background this book is much more focused on the main two characters Conner (Logan's cousin) and Flora I enjoyed the relationship and the way it blossomed and how it eventually concluded
Book 3 of the Glenmore doctor series
Though the characters of the first two books are mentioned in the background this book is much more focused on the main two characters Conner (Logan's cousin) and Flora I enjoyed the relationship and the way it blossomed and how it eventually concluded
December 2, 2014
After having just finished two deplorable Harlequin books, this one was refreshing. I generally like Medical romances and The Rebel Doctor's Bride's plot was good. The conversation was believable and there was actually a story-line, which is more than I can say for the two previous free ebooks I finished.
May 10, 2015
it cud have been a 3 star but for those boring medical details! about patients and so on! else, it was a good story! sweet one where opposites attract. flora learned to get over her complexes and stopped to care about what other people might think while connor let go of the past, of a terrible childhood and learned to love again.
July 11, 2014
People cannot believe the new doctor is really the mischievous boy who left 12 years ago. Flora has come home to help out her friends as a nurse in his clinic. Even she doesn't think Conner will be able to make it as a doctor at first.
February 8, 2016
I don't now why but medical romances are either a miss or a hit for me. It's sad to say that most have been misses though. This was an all-around okay read but I found there wasn't much spark between me and the book.
March 31, 2022
This book I’ve read it multiple time and it’ll be my favorite book of all time no matter what other book I’ve read… Conner and Flora shows you so much the meaning of true love lies in the covers of this book
February 16, 2009
I really enjoyed this book. I read it in one day. I normally don't read medical romances but I loved this one.
October 13, 2012
dialog-nya bagus, overall ide ceritanya lumayan. tapi ga suka waktu Flora selalu maju duluan ke Conner.
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