The Children's Doctor

by Joanna Neil

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2002

About the author

Dear Readers
I live close by the beautiful Charnwood Forest area of Leicestershire, where my husband and I brought up our son and daughter, both adults now, with children of their own. I love to get out and about with all of them.
I’ve worked at a number of jobs over the years, all of which, I’m sure, have fuelled my imagination for the stories I write. I’ve been an office clerk, a typist, receptionist and switchboard operator, as well as working as a cadet nurse in a hospital, which included an enjoyable stint in the pharmacy as well as time spent on the wards.
When my children started school, I trained as an infant teacher, a job I loved. Then I caught the writing bug, probably something that stemmed from a very young age when I would produce stories in picture form and act out scenes from my imagination!
So far, I’ve written more than sixty novels, some contemporary titles, but mostly medical romance. Now, though, I’m releasing two new contemporary romances – Lake View Summer, and Kendrick’s Return, with more titles to follow. I’m also working on a Murder Mystery series, Sweetbriar Farm Murder Mysteries, the first of which is Deadly Medicine.
These can be found on www.amazon.co.uk and on www.amazon.com

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 1 out of 5]

Doctor heroine moves to a Caribbean island for a temporary job at the local hospital because she is interested in learning more about tropical medicine. Hero is the local suave island plantation owner as well as extremely skilled surgeon who owns a private clinic specializing in cardiology, for rich people who want to combine their heart surgery with a nice vacation among the palm trees lol.

Hero's childhood sweetheart who had jilted him years before has recently come back to the island, with her 2 year old son in tow. Everybody and their mother is predicting that hero will get back with his ex. The hero himself doesn't deny it, even as he tries again and again to put the moves on the heroine. He tells her at one point that he has a special affinity for the ex's son because after all, that could have been his son if she hadn't jilted him.

Hero continues to woo the heroine but he spends all his time with the OW. There is no doubt in my mind that he is sleeping her and also trying to bed the heroine at the same time. One of the hospital nurses calls him about a patient and the OW answers his phone huskily, telling her the doctor had a late night and just went into the shower tee-hee. In another instance, the heroine finds them smooching in his office. Hero also operates on her fragile plot moppet with a heart condition. He keeps reminding heroine that he will always be here for OW and her son whenever they need him. He has loved her since they were children etc.

After all this, the conclusion consists of him having the absolute gall to gaslight the heroine into believing that he actually only ever cared for the OW as a SISTER. ROFL. In that case, it was a very "special" brother-sister relationship that made him wish his "nephew" was his own son. WTH???? From the hints the hero was dropping, it seemed that he was more interested in the heroine joining his clinic (even building a special pediatric ward for her) than in having her for his wife. This was an EPIC GASLIGHTING FAIL for me.