Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780373292851
ISBN number: 0373292856
Label: Harlequin
Manufacturer: Harlequin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: December 01, 2003
Publishing house: Harlequin
Sale Popularity Level: 762899
Studio: Harlequin
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A wife shouldn't be a surprise package. But Mountie surgeon John Calloway suddenly found himself saddled with a special delivery he hadn't signed for--mail-order bride Sarah O'Neill. He had no room in his life for marriage! But why then did he feel compelled to protect Sarah from all things dark and dangerous--including her own unspoken past? If John Calloway didn't want her, fine! Sarah would survive--and thrive!--without him! The rugged, committed doctor dismissed his proposal as an elaborate prank. So how come the two of them kept finding themselves in each other's arms? And what would Sarah be forced to deny in order to stay there?
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Normally, I don't read many romances but I will definitely be looking for more of Kate Bridges' work after reading "The Surgeon."
The title of the book refers to the main character, 40-year-old John Calloway, a surgeon with Canada's Royal Mounted Police (which immediately reminded me of the actor Paul Gross from Due South). Apparently, the men under his command have set him up with 28-year-old Sarah O'Neill, a mail-order bride looking for change. Both John and Sarah carry emotional baggage with them: he is somewhat inflexible in dealing with people and she is looking for her estranged brother, who's on the wrong side of the law.
The story is based on a true life experience, and Bridges does her research well. Sarah and her brother are gunsmiths, and there's a great piece of dialogue near the end between smart, intelligent Sarah and the town blacksmith regarding the making of rifles. The last romance I read had a heroine who was dumber than dishwater, and it's refreshing to read about a woman who knows not only how to be a homemaker, but how to support herself by watchmaking or gunsmithing.
I also liked how the author made the characters question their relationship and themselves. Usually, it's true love conquers all after a romp in the bedroom, but here we have two wildly different personalities and backgrounds coming together, and the fact that they're not sure about each other until nearly the end of the book makes it all the more realistic.
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highly entertaining Harlequin Historical. This book is chock full of unusual themes for a romance-a old west book but set in Canada. The heroine-a spunky, intelligent "spinster" of 28 who loves to fix clocks and is a excellent gunsmith, the hero-a 40 year old Mountie who is also the towns primary Doctor, who is in for a big surprise when Sarah shows up but handles that surprise very well.
I had heard many good reviews for this book-they were all correct. I look forward to reading more by Miss Bridges!
4.5 stars!
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I liked this book but I didn't understand why the couple was arguing 4/5 of the book.
At the beginning of the book Sarah arrives in Calgary, Canada as a mail-order bride. She believes that she is there to become John Calloway's wife & what they discover is that John's men had been corresponding with Sarah as a prank. John offers to pay for Sarah to return home but she objects to that because of her other reason for wanting to come to Calgary. She believes her long lost brother is there.
After the town treats Sarah very badly because of some embarrassing information that got out he decides to do the right thing by marrying her. So they wed & consummate their marriage & then they practically separate themselves from each other until the end of the book. They don't even sleep in the same room. At the very end of the book they realize their love for one another but I really don't understand why it took so long. I just really couldn't understand what their conflict was all about. Seemed silly to me.
I also found many errors in the book. The author used the wrong name a few times in the book & it had you wondering what was going on. Also at the end of the book you hear John's friend Logan state that he heard John had helped make guns for the enemy & earlier when that whole part was taking place Logan was actually one of the only people that knew about it but he commented about it as if he heard it through the grapevine.
Other then those few errors & the lack of romance 4/5 of the book there was a good story line. It's a quick read & if you don't need the steamy romance they you should like this book.
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The Surgeon has everything one wants in a historical romance novel. From the very first page to the last, it's smart, sassy, thoroughly entertaining and plain pleasurable to read!
Absolutely very first rate!
Be sure to very first read 1. The Surgeon 2. The Engagement and soon to be released 3. The Proposition. All three contain some of the same characters.
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This was one of the best romance novels I have read in a long time. I could not put the book down. I kept saying I would read just one more chapter, but after that chapter I had to keep reading to see what would happen next.
I really liked that this story was set in the Canadian west. It was really nice to read a story which took place in the "old west" that didn't revolved around Indians and cattle drives.
I enjoyed that the male lead character wore two hats, of law officer and doctor. It created a multidimensional character that evolved independently of the main story.
This book is full of twists that I didn't expect. I rarely read books a second time, but this will be going on my shelf for a second viewing.
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