Review: Desert Nurse

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Nurse Tracey Lynne’s romance was over, but until she joined Robert Spencer-Thwait’s desert expedition she thought the scars would never heal. Then she found that it took all her strength simply to survive, let alone gain the respect of the fiery Doctor David Carrington. Somehow Tracey’s broken heart had healed—but would David, who cared only for his desert hospital, break it all over again?

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: January 1978

Mature content: no

 

Review: I remember reading this book a long, long time ago. I re-read it now because I'm sorting through my old paperbacks and deciding which books to keep and which to give away/donate. Unfortunately, Desert Nurse isn't going on the keep pile. 

It's not a bad book overall. Even though it's outdated - or perhaps because of it - I enjoyed reading about the desert and the way people lived there at the time the book was written. The downside? I don't think this is a romance novel in any way, even though it is marketed as such.

  

Actually, Tracey and David barely talk to each other outside of strictly professional conversations (and even those are rare), when they do interact usually David is brusque and Tracey often ends up in tears, and there's little indication that they are even attracted to each other. The only indication they have fallen in love is at the very end, and while there is a happily ever after (sort of), I found their love story lacking.  

Happy readings,

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