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Summary: Unrealistic Characters
Review: A doctor needing to get away from unwanted media attention following a very messy divorce is talked into taking his assistance car and taking a break. He ends up becoming neighbors with a young woman working her way through college and helping her elderly neighbor care for two small children. Standard love story from there. The idea is a rather good one and it was a fairy enjoyable one-time-read but the characters were fairly predictable and unrealistic. Especially toward the end (but I won't ruin the story by saying how). Borrow from a friend but don't buy.
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Summary: Unrealistic Characters
Review: A doctor needing to get away from unwanted media attention following a very messy divorce is talked into taking his assistance car and taking a break. He ends up becoming neighbors with a young woman working her way through college and helping her elderly neighbor care for two small children. Standard love story from there. The idea is a rather good one and it was a fairy enjoyable one-time-read but the characters were fairly predictable and unrealistic. Especially toward the end (but I won't ruin the story by saying how). Borrow from a friend but don't buy.
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Summary: Wonderful heartwarming story.
Review: Family Practice by Judy Duarte is a emotional book about two people that have every reason to stay apart, but fall in love anyway. Judy does an excellent job of drawing out the differences in social classes. The hero, Michael Harper, is a big city doctor from a very wealthy family. He is passionate about his work as a cardiovascular surgeon. When his ex-wife steals money from the family business for a dirty politicians campaign, Michael's face is plastered all over the LA news and he is hounded by reporters. Eager to escape and gain some perspective, he borrows his secretary's car (His flashy black Jag would be too conspicuous) and drives to a small beach town where he can be anonymous. The heroine, Kara Westin, is from the wrong side of the tracks. She's been pushed from foster home to foster home, having to take handouts from people that don't really care about her. She has no family, no car, no money. But she has something Michael doesn't have: happiness and contentment. Two of the kids in her neighborhood need a mother and she's determined to adopt them. She's fiercely independent and determined to make it with no help from anyone. When they meet, he's desperate to remain anonymous so he doesn't tell her about his money or position. Their worlds and views clash yet they find something special that they cannot find with any one else. He longs to show her the world but she longs to make it on her own. This book is full of wonderful, special moments. Judy Duarte knows how to make the simple pleasures in life come alive: a kiss in a tree house, a walk down the beach. Truly a heartwarming treasure.
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Summary: Wonderful heartwarming story.
Review: Family Practice by Judy Duarte is a emotional book about two people that have every reason to stay apart, but fall in love anyway. Judy does an excellent job of drawing out the differences in social classes. The hero, Michael Harper, is a big city doctor from a very wealthy family. He is passionate about his work as a cardiovascular surgeon. When his ex-wife steals money from the family business for a dirty politicians campaign, Michael's face is plastered all over the LA news and he is hounded by reporters. Eager to escape and gain some perspective, he borrows his secretary's car (His flashy black Jag would be too conspicuous) and drives to a small beach town where he can be anonymous. The heroine, Kara Westin, is from the wrong side of the tracks. She's been pushed from foster home to foster home, having to take handouts from people that don't really care about her. She has no family, no car, no money. But she has something Michael doesn't have: happiness and contentment. Two of the kids in her neighborhood need a mother and she's determined to adopt them. She's fiercely independent and determined to make it with no help from anyone. When they meet, he's desperate to remain anonymous so he doesn't tell her about his money or position. Their worlds and views clash yet they find something special that they cannot find with any one else. He longs to show her the world but she longs to make it on her own. This book is full of wonderful, special moments. Judy Duarte knows how to make the simple pleasures in life come alive: a kiss in a tree house, a walk down the beach. Truly a heartwarming treasure.
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Summary: Another great book by Judy Duarte
Review: Very good read. Realistic situation told by a wonderful storyteller. I couldn't put it down.
Rating:
Summary: Another great book by Judy Duarte
Review: Very good read. Realistic situation told by a wonderful storyteller. I couldn't put it down.
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