Hello Stranger

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.