![]() ![]() □ Although this was common back in the day, it's still yuck. She has a passion for becoming a physician/surgeon, and is hounded by the prospect of being required to marry her cousin, the viscount's son of Almont. Hazel Sinnett is a 17 year old lady of "good breeding" living in Scotland in the early 1800's. ![]() If a slow burning, gothic style "mystery" is your thing, please proceed with gusto. This isn't a complaint, just simply an observation to ensure you're in the right frame of expectation before choosing this book as your next read. The marketing of this one might throw some people, as it's proclaiming to be a romantic, historical fantasy, but my finding was it really gears more in the way of historical fiction with a light side of the fantastical and just a dash of secondary romance. I believe a good numbers of readers would pick up Anatomy: A Love Story based on the gorgeous cover art alone, because, contrary to popular belief, we really do grab our first impressions by judging a book by its cover. He should tell you on Guy Fawkes Night and on New Year's, and on the eighth of August, just because." ![]() Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and the evening before Christmas Eve, and on Easter. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Wednesdays. "Somebody should tell you that you're beautiful every time the sun comes up. Martin’s Press/ Wednesday Books for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts. I went back and forth between giving this mind blowing story four and five stars but that WTH, OMG I’m screaming at the top of my lungs ending was game changer! I’m rounding up 4.5 stars to 5 dark, haunted, gory, thrilling, deadly, creepy, unputdownable stars! Hazel takes the responsibility to be a doctor too hard, dealing with her capricious almost fiancée, barely resisting her feelings for Jack! But as you may see: The intimate romance blossoms at most inappropriate places ( yes this book could be defined as graveyard romance! Isn’t it a fabulous new genre idea? ) As sparks fly around them, they do everything to concentrate on their jobs. His path crosses with the ambitious, vivid, reckless Hazel and they reluctantly turn into partner in crimes and the danger of the job, staying alive against terminal disease make them vulnerable. Jack Currer is one of the resurrection men, taking risks to dig out more graves as the dangerous men lurk around the graveyards to hunt them. The entire city of Edinburgh is getting through the most demanding and struggling times as the plague threat arises and the resurrection men who are the gravediggers for providing more dead bodies to the anatomists and surgeons to resume their researches against the deadly effects of fever and contagious disease. Hazel might be only 16 but she’s so determined to pursue her career in medicine in expanse of being disguised in her dead brother’s clothes, acting like a man to be accepted to the coursework. Poor Hazel Sinnett lives in a secluded, gothic family mansion, electrifying frogs for testing her peculiar medical methods behind the locked doors as her mother still mourns after her dead brother George and her little brother Percy stays in the middle of this chaos, behaving like most irritating spoiler kid. ![]() Welcome to the 19th century of Scotland: where the plague erupted and womanhood was the biggest obstacle to choose medicine as profession. Wow! Just wow! That’s so much than I expected: Alienist meets Frankenstein with Scottish romance vibes, hot love sessions and forbidden kisses at the graveyard! Yeap! Quirky, disturbing but also surprising, stimulating, intelligent! A great concoction for gothic thriller lovers who adore tough, bold, smart heroines! ![]()
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