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Having just joined the Global Aid Organization,
Sherazad Dawson finds
herself in a war-torn country. Her guard and driver has been killed in
an attack and the strange man who came running towards them is now
half-sprawled on top of her. Given the choice to defend herself, she
had had no other option..so she shot him! As she wriggles out from
underneath him, she now sees not only how sexy he is but how injured he
is. As a doctor she must save his life and uphold the values she swore
to uphold. With every step of the way, Sherazad jumps from the frying
pan into the fire, from one fire into an even more explosive fire. The
man she shot is her boss! His words and passion may even get her into
more trouble. Together Sherazad and Lorenzo will risk their own lives
and hearts as they try to save lives in this war-torn world where the
medicine is just as intense as the passions.
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Why in the world would I read this book now
when life has been so intense and full of medical reality lately? What
can I say? I wanted to read an intense book, something at least as
intense (if not more than) as life has felt lately sort of a means of
de-intensifying the medical drama playing out in front of me. This book
was set in a war-torn environment so I figured the medical reality
would be better than others right now. I love Olivia Gates' medicals
and her new Desire so much that I want to read everything she has ever
written sometime this year. Plus I read the first few pages...and then
I was hooked
When I read this book, I knew it was her debut
medical, written 4
years earlier, so I read it with a different mindset than reading her
2008 work written 4 years after this one. Will I see in her debut
Medical qualities that I see in her current writing? How has she grown
as a writer? What is different?
The beginning of his romance is definitely classic
Olivia Gates ---
dramatic, explosive, suspenseful with just a touch of humor for the
reader as her characters crash into each other. Just when a reader
thinks it can't get any more intense, she ups the intensity level and
the conflict ten-fold! Lorenzo is one alpha-male....a man whose pain
does not stop him from taking part in the most intense surgical
procedure. As a lover, he is just as intense, just as devoted as he is
to medicine.
The author's use of language and non-English
languages here really
caught my attention. I felt her love of language just as much as I felt
her love of medicine. Here, the poetic quality of her writing came out
the most in terms of her awareness of other languages and their magical
powerful effect. I left this book feeling assured that this author
knows at least 2 languages if not more. It just shows in her writing
and approach to language itself. In later works, this poetry is even
more pronounced and more finely tuned, but I felt it in this, her debut
book, as well.
In Doctors on the Frontline, the
medicine is quite
intense and wonderful. For non-medical readers, Olivia Gates does an
exceptional job at explaining medical lingo and procedures for
non-medical readers. It never feels like she is explaining it
actually....it just flows right within the context and with the flow of
her language....a delight for readers like me who are not medical. She
never talks down to the non-medical reader.
Also here, the reader catches a glimpse at how
this author uses her
landscapes to get down to human values that cross cultures, politics,
ideologies--something that she does with such beauty in The Sheikh
Surgeon's Proposal.
Here this is found in Lorenzo's character, the anger and force, his
very humanity, that drives him to save lives on both sides of the war.
A very refreshing perspective!
I definitely see growth from this book to her
newer releases, but
this debut book shows all I see in my other recent reads by her.
Another impossible to put down book....despite everything going on in
my household, I managed read this book from cover to cover with few and
only necessary diversions.
