Ready to Love

by Jeanne Bowman

Suffering from severe work-related stress, Gerda Johns consults Dr. Brown, who prescribes a strict regimen of love and then procedes to act as pharmacist as well

188 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Sara Dodd · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm not sure what I was expecting from a 1960's romance book I picked up from a holiday park laundry book swap, but it wasn't this. I suffered through an entire book of misogynistic attitudes towards the protagonist, who was literally put in the kitchen to cook and clean for a ranch full of men, and this is where she finds her own internal value. What about the romance? you might ask? As did I, as did I... It wasn't until the very last chapter (literally), when a cowboy comes riding in and Gerda (that's the protagonists name) spots him from afar and just knows she's in love with him and has all the skills she'll ever need to keep him happy by having learned to cook and clean during her ranch holiday.
I might stick to the Mills & Boon romances on my next camping trip...