Hello Stranger
Ratings18
Average rating3.5
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Ratings18
Average rating3.5
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas delivers a scintillating tale of an unconventional beauty who finds passion with the spy who can’t resist her A woman who defies her time Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man—why not take her pleasures like one? Yet she has never been tempted to embark on an affair, until now. Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, is as gallant as he is secretive, a rumored assassin whose true loyalties are a mystery. For one exhilarating night, they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. A man who breaks every rule As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little interest in polite society, yet he is captivated by the bold and beautiful Garrett. Despite their vow to resist each other after that sublime night, she is soon drawn into his most dangerous assignment yet. When the mission goes wrong, it will take all of Garrett’s skill and courage to save him. As they face the menace of a treacherous government plot, Ethan is willing to take any risk for the love of the most extraordinary woman he’s ever known.
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7 primary booksThe Ravenels is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Lisa Kleypas.
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Skipping over Boring Twin, Hello Stranger instead focuses on Lady Doctor and Illigitimate Ravenel Detective/Spy/whatever. Garrett is a feminist and highly educated, so there's period appropriate birth control methods, plus we get to skip the usual “so that's what a penis looks like” moment. This book does feel like a totally different genre from the previous ones. Devil in Spring touched on it but Hello Stranger dives right into the political/criminal pool.
Warning: Contains icky medical stuff. No worse than an episode of House or ER but still icky.
3.5 stars. An improvement over the earlier novels of the series but the hero was seriously creepy in the beginning, following her around like that.
I liked this! Nice to have a Kleypas novel not focused on the "upper class," and lots of fun historical doctoring details in here. This suffers a bit from being several years old, because I think a current re-write could have leaned more into British colonial violence against the Irish, which was an interested subplot. Good mix of suspense and romance.
