~The Course of True Love~

by Betty Neels

      Heroine:  Statuesque

      Pretty Claribel Brown was not having a good night.  Waiting in line for a bus in a torrential London downpour is no one's idea of a good time, and it didn't help matters when the person in front of her stepped on poor Claribel's foot and injured it.  But a handsome Dutch doctor who witnessed the incident whisked the young lady away in his Rolls Royce to her apartment to clean her up, so fortune must have been smiling down upon her after all. 

      Or was it?  The good doctor turned out to be as brusque a fellow as any you would want to meet, and rubbed Claribel the wrong way every chance he got!    And to improve upon the matter, he was apparently taking over rounds at Jerome's Hospital where she worked as a physiotherapist.

      How will Claribel manage working with this overbearing man every day?

      What worked for me:

      Normally I don't care for books where the couples are always cross and at odds with each other, but this one usually had me chuckling rather than feeling annoyed.  (Though I will say that Claribel's independent streak sometimes appeared more like slight immaturity in the form of contrariness for the sake of itself.  But then, Marc's personality reminded me very much of that of Professor Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady".  No wonder Claribel's knickers were always in a knot!)

      I've enjoyed medical stories ever since my mother handed down her Cherry Ames books to me when I was ten.  It was nice to pick up another one, even though there was no mystery to solve.

      Size-wise Claribel was a tall, well-rounded girl whom the hero referred to at their first meeting as "hefty".   I couldn't help but picture her as a Sophie Dahl type.

What didn't work for me:

    I can't imagine hauling my own two cats with me every time I go home to my mother's as Claribel did! 

Overall:

      A solid read for fans of sweet category novels and medical romances.

If you liked "The Course of True Love" you might also enjoy "Love at Large", "Baby at His Convenience", "Midsummer Lightning",  The Independent Bride", "The Bridesmaid's Reward", "More to Love", "Runaway Bay", "His Seductive Revenge", "Carried Away", "His E-mail Order Wife", "Spellbound", "A Worthy Heir", "The Legacy Tree", or "Sweet Memories".

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