Review: Dr. Perfect

Dr. Perfect by Louise Bay
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Ellie has just been ceremonially dumped by her boyfriend Shane, since she'd dropped out of college to manage his speedway career she has no qualifications, and since they shared his money, she has no salary, and no job history. So when she gets a temporary assignment as PA/office manager to a private doctor in Harley Street she is ecstatic, if she saves every penny she can she might be able to go to the Cordon Bleu culinary school. Except Dr Zach Cove doesn't seem to want her to do anything, and he doesn't seem very enthusiastic about getting clients. Furthermore, everything she does to help him just seems to irritate him instead.

Zach Cove comes from a family of doctors, both his parents and all his brothers are doctors, so he felt obligated to go into the family business, but he hates it. What he wants to do is write and he has in fact written a cosy detective story, set in a hospital. A very famous book agent has agreed to represent him, but she is retiring imminently and she has a LOT of changes she wants him to make to the book, so Zach is using his two days a week at his private practice to edit his novel rather than see patients.

When it becomes clear that Zach needs to spend 24/7 editing his book he decides to spend a week on the remote Scottish island of Rum staying in his cousin Vincent's cottage/shack, then the courier who was supposed to deliver the final notes from his agent to Rum, delivers it to Harley Street instead. Realising that Zach needs this parcel very urgently, and no courier can guarantee net day delivery, Ellie resolves to deliver the parcel herself. But the ferry timetables and an incoming storm mean that she has to stay in the cottage with Zach for several days, where the sparks between them turn into flames.

Zach is pretty much all in (which makes a nice surprise), but Ellie is wary after her experiences with Shane and doesn't want to give up on her dreams and subsume herself in a man again, can Zach persuade her that he is different?

The first half of the book didn't do much for me, especially the forced proximity in a small cottage due to a storm, but I did very much like the thoughtful way in which Zach and Ellie created their relationship thereafter.

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