Twee, phoned-in rubbish. It's like the author just sat there and imagined what practicing medicine is like and called it "research." This on top of using every stereotype and characterization shortcut in the book, and I wonder what the American Romance acquiring editors are smoking (or maybe I should shudder at what they've read and rejected.)

If she couldn't put the effort in to write it, I can't put the effort in to read it. ( )

I try to make a point of posting a review of everything I read, even cheesy Harlequin romances. Unfortunately, I do not have a whole lot to say about this one. The romance was sweet, and at times sexy, but it was predictable that the two main characters would end up together, since that is the focus of the book. My favorite character was actually the owner of the diner, simply because she seemed to be the one really running the town. I found the doctor to be melodramatic and behave at times as if he had a split personality, which was kind of a turn-off for me. I felt sorry for the baby, since he rarely seemed to see much of his mom at all, what with her passing him off to the baby-sitters so she could go fool around with the doctor. Tina could have planned the motherhood vs. dating aspects better by having Dan come to her place instead, and then Dan could have spent some time with the baby, too. ( )

*Received from Harlequin, must complete survey about book

A sweet if simple love story. Dan temporarily accepts a small town doctor's job to help assuage his guilt over his brother's death (the brother had originally accepted the job), but when he gets there, the kindness he receives - not to mention the newly single and very attractive Tina - convinces him to stick around.

This was just too...whitebread for me. No real conflict, no real chemistry, just a bland read with bland characters. ( )

Wow. That's _bad_. It would be fine as a teenager's first novel (someone with no experience with either real romance or writing) - a bit of editing would have made it quite readable - but for someone like Marie Ferrarella, it's really bad. Maybe this was (one of) her first novel(s) and she couldn't get it published until now? The romance cliches - not even tropes - are front and center. The characters are both cardboard and unrealistic - they have no reasonable motives, and they play their parts like puppets. And to top it off, the editors fell down on the job - there's a lot of really clumsy writing here (unclear pronoun precedents, wild POV leaps, the same word used two or three times in a paragraph (and not for effect)...). A good copyeditor should have caught these - were they in a hurry or afraid to cross the famous author? Really bad. Then the storyline - a slacker trained to be a radiologist steps in as sole GP in a small town, and never gets in over his head - even a breech birth is easily handled. Meanwhile, the heroine is supposed to be wary of handsome men (oh yes, and he's blindingly handsome and she's gorgeous), but she never hesitates about working for him or otherwise getting close. Not even when he forgets who "Bobby" is (her baby son) three times in five pages (about six hours). Sheesh! If this had been my first Ferrarella, I would have marked her down as unreadable. I've liked others of hers, so it's just that this one is unreadable... ( )