The Bullshit, you see, is a brief section wherein Ethan explains that he learned all about smexing from an unnamed woman of color while in India as part of his spy training. So this book should have made me really happy, but instead it pissed me off because of The Bullshit.
Take for example this sentence, describing how Ethan feels about Garrett: “ The mere thought of her left him like a stray coal on the hearth.” It’s a sexy romance between two working class people (not in a ballroom), with a cool, proficient, badass heroine and a great suspense plotline. So she suggests to Ethan that they engage in an affair and he’s all like “No, my life is way to dangerous to involve you in,” and then They Bone Anyway and Feels are Had.Īdd to that a big conspiracy Ethan is struggling to unravel which makes for a good suspense subplot, and Garrett being the only person who can save his life Garrett can’t conceive of a world where she can have a husband and still be allowed to keep her practice but she also wants to experience sex and romance. She agrees and when they’re sparring he gets a boner and Garrett realizes she wants to have an affair with him. Then he offers to teach her self defense more styled to street fighting versus the formal style of instruction she’s received in the past. When the book opens, Garrett is attacked by a group of men intending to rape her, and Ethan jumps in to help her beat the stuffing out of them. This is Romance Hero Logic at its finest. Ethan has a dangerous job, so he doesn’t want to involve Garrett in his life, but he’s also kind of in love with her, so instead he just follows her around like a making sure no one hurts her (even though she’s pretty capable of defending herself). From her earlier interactions with him in a previous novel, she’s sometimes watched over by Ethan Ransom, a former Scotland Yard Detective turned spy, who pines for Garrett from a distance and wants to protect her. Garrett Gibson is the only female physician in England. Had it not been for The Bullshit, I would have enjoyed this book immensely, which makes me even more bitter about it.ĭr. Why did it let me down? Because of a brief section I am calling: “The Bullshit” (we’ll get to what that is in a minute).
I had been waiting so impatiently for Hello Stranger to come, mostly because the heroine is inspired by the first female British physician, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. The scene in question described below has been removed entirely from the book. UPDATE: An updated version of Hello Stranger has been released digitally to all retailers, and updated copies should have appeared in digital libraries. Archetype: Cop/Sheriff, Doctor/Nurse/Veterinarian, Spy/Assassin
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