Elizabeth's move, over her domineering father's strenuous objections is intended to be a reboot, an attempt to have a real life, with friends, hobbies, pets, plants, basically all the things she has given up in order to be the best in her field. And there's a great dog in this book :)ĭr Elizabeth Wolcott takes a one year sabbatical as a neurosurgeon to New Zealand when her boyfriend dumps her on Christmas Eve because she spends more time at work than she does on their relationship. I've read that too and enjoyed the revisit. Could easily be read as a standalone, although for those who have been reading the rest of the series, there is some time spent with Nyree and Marko from Just Say (Hell) No. Luka has his fair share of issues to face as well. In particular I like the way Elizabeth's inner self is gradually unpacked, and she starts to realise how she can really live a full, multi-faceted life without being simply focussed on her work and nothing else.

It's quite a long, meaty book, as Elizabeth and Luka slowly realise how much they are starting to mean to each other. Elizabeth's father in particular is a horrid, controlling, demanding and loveless person who deprived her of any kind of normal childhood. Both have difficult families, with childhoods somewhat deprived of love. A brilliant workaholic American neurosurgeon takes a change of scene in New Zealand. She is professional.ĭid she mention that he was the love of her adorable blonde stepsister’s life?Ĥ.5 stars. She’s not even going to think about a rugby star with a broken nose and a face that crumples when he smiles, not to mention too many supermodels in his past. She’s already responsible for the world’s biggest, hairiest, and least obedient dog. As for adding more humiliating moments? No, thank you. The one place she hadn’t planned to look for it is New Zealand, site of some of her most humiliating adolescent moments, yet here she is. He prefers his life simple and his neurosurgeons drama-free. He’s even less happy when the dog’s incompetent owner turns up in his hospital cubicle the next day with a plan to fix those vertebrae. At 33, a rugby forward protects his vertebrae.

He hadn’t planned on using them to bring down a runaway dog the size of a Shetland pony, though, especially not when his neck is already buggered.

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