And then, as the author set things up for the next book, it’s time to go back to arguing over whether the hero is going to resemble this actor or that actor. If you have read any of the previous books in this series, and you love it, you have probably spent quite some time on Goodreads putting up animated gifs of cartoon characters with heart-shaped eyes at the notion that, in this book, finally Dr Garrett Gibson – that’s our heroine – and Ethan Ransom are going to make sweet, sweet love as the adoring members of their fan club cheer them on. Nonetheless, it can stand alone very well, mostly because nothing really happens here in terms of plot, and things happen slowly enough that most people can catch up quite easily. (Mar.Hello Stranger is the fourth book in Lisa Kleypas’s The Ravenels series, and appropriately enough, it is knee-deep in already existing relationships, all of whom form a strong network of support to give the impression that the main couple of this book is never in any genuine trouble. Agent: Mel Berger, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. Such details do give an uncommon flavor to a familiar suspense plot, and the anatomical dialogue, while expected, is still good for a chuckle, but there’s little here for anyone other than series fans. There’s a sense that Garrett has been cast as a doctor to excuse a liberal salting of research nuggets, and Ethan’s Kama Sutra–derived erotic skills are annoyingly orientalist.
Ethan is a double agent engaged in taking down his corrupt government boss, and Garrett doesn’t know the risks she’s taking by getting involved with him. He agrees to tutor her in street-fighting skills, and they scarcely resist the ensuing onslaught of lust. This makes him conveniently available to rescue her from inevitable harassers.
Into this frankly unbelievable life slouches Ethan Ransom, a kind of Victorian James Bond who spends Tuesdays shadowing Garrett on neighborhood rounds. Garrett, a constable’s daughter, nonetheless earned a degree from the Sorbonne and, at age 28, has a state-of-the-art surgery plus a side gig subsidized by tycoon Rhys Winterborne (familiar from 2016’s Marrying Winterborne).
Kleypas sets the implausible fairy tale of Garrett Gibson, the only woman doctor in 1876 England, in working-class Clerkenwell, but this sanitized version of London has the squeaky-clean artifice of a toothpaste commercial.
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