Turn Back Time by Radclyffe Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Turn Back Time
Book Review: Another Radclyffe Masterpiece...
Summary: 5 Stars
Radclyffe is unquestionably one of this genre's most talented authors. She certainly doesn't disappoint with her newest release. This book fully captured my attention in the first few pages and never let me go.
The immediate attraction between Wynter and Pearce is white hot from the second they grasp hands as strangers at a party in college. That is, until Wynter's husband calls to say he's on his way there too. Unsure of her intense reaction to Pearce, Wynter is immediately ambivalent about his call.
The women part ways, only to find each other again a few short years later. They fight attraction because of their professional relationship. However, fate eventually finds a way to overcome stubbornness.
This reader can't say enough about the talented Radclyffe. If all authors of lesbian fiction were as good as she is, our genre would be mainstream. Go buy this book. Enjoy it... over and over again...
Book Review: Clumsy Only with the Medical Stuff
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this book a lot, once I got past the problem of not knowing what in the world medical terms like carotid endarterectomy, orbital floors, fem-pop bypass, intra-abdominal washout, and gastric plications were. All the surgery scenes are probably intersting to the small minority of people in the medical field but the rest of us find our eyes glazing over. But that's all that is a problem. Everything else in the book is good with believable characters you care about, especially Wynter, Pearce, and Mina. The child Ronnie doesn't really come to life much, but it is more of an adult romance anyway. I liked the more realistic viewpoint of the lovescenes as compared to the last Radclyffe book I read where I had a hard time believing in them.
All in all a good book that could have been edited somewhat of - not the stress and rush of the residents - but of the excessive surgical stuff. We know Radclyffe was a surgeon and there is no need to prove it.
This is a regular old classic romance like I have always enjoyed. It is well worth reading.
Book Review: Drama in the Medical World!
Summary: 5 Stars
Chief Surgical Resident Pearce Rifkin is on a fast track through her career so she doesn't have time for a lover. At least that's what she tries to tell herself. So imagine her surprise when someone she knew long ago re-enters her life in the form of one Wynter Thompson, the new surgical resident at the hospital where Pearce is now working.
As if life isn't complicated enough for a resident, the past causes the two women to butt heads at first. However, it's not long before Wynter shows her merit and earns Pearce's grudging respect. Surely they can't be becoming friends! And Pearce is certainly not showing Wynter her `secret hideaway' in the hospital...right?
Working long hours and having to push themselves to a level of endurance seemingly impossible, does nothing to hinder what now looks as a comradarie forming between Wynter and Pearce. Something that is sorely tested when Wynter finds out just who Pearce's father is and how that played into Pearce's current position.
And just as Pearce begins thinking that maybe something more could develop out of their friendship, her thoughts are brought screeching to a halt by the entrance of someone into the mix that Pearce would never have suspected. Will this new person help or hinder the two women's chance of going from friendship to maybe something more?
They say write what you know and Radclyffe continuously displays that she most definitely takes that to heart. Two of her previous books, Passion's Bright Fury, and Fated Love also take place in or around the world of medicine. Along with Turn Back Time, they each provide the reader with a wonderfully indepth look at the lives and loves of women as they make their way in the medical world and come together despite odds that appear stacked against them.
Book Review: Excellent classical romance I couldn't put down
Summary: 5 Stars
Pearce Rifkin and Wynter Thompson are two surgeons whose lives cross once - then not again for a few years. When they meet again, Pearce is the chief surgery resident and Wynter is now assigned to the same hospital. No way should these two gals end up together. Not only are they both vying for the very few post-resident jobs available, but their positions are very stressful. Still, there is an attraction, and the story is how the two of them manage to acknowledge and deal with that. Excellent romance. Very well written, and I liked it lots.Book Review: Formulaic but nice romance
Summary: 3 Stars
I've read several of Radclyffe's offerings and this one has fully developed characters (that are typical of her writing, but still, developed) and a storyline that helps advance the romance rather than smother it with plot points. Pearce is like so many of her strong I'm-too-damaged-to-be-loved, characters, but she grows throughout the story. The ending is a little unbelievable (or one that will make any serious med student/intern/resident snort derisively) but the love story helps ease what could be a cynical response to the plot. It's worth a read, but not the best lesbian romance out there.