The Dare and the Doctor
By Kate Noble
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Dr. Rhys Gray and Miss Margaret Babcock are friends—strictly friends. But over the course of the year, as they exchange dozens of letters, they share personal details that put them on the path to something more. When Dr. Gray helps Margaret realize her dearest dream and she comes to his defense in the uproar that follows, it seems that their connection cannot be denied. But will their relationship stand the scruples of society and jealous intendeds, or are they destined to be only friends, and nothing more?
The perfect novel for fans of Regency Era romance, The Dare and the Doctor is a clever and passionate love story worth sharing.
Kate Noble
Kate Noble is the national bestselling, RITA-nominated author of historical romances, including the acclaimed Blue Raven series and the Winner Takes All series. Her books have earned her numerous accolades, including comparisons to Jane Austen, which just makes her giddy. In her other life as Kate Rorick, she is an Emmy-award winning writer of television and web series, having written for NBC, FOX, and TNT, as well as the international hit YouTube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Kate lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son, and is hard at work on her next book. You can find Kate online at KateNoble.com.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Just okay. Not as delightful as the first two books. I find it difficult to appreciate the progression of friendship to love.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fauna and fervour! Love amongst floral favourites! Margaret Babcock is a joyously unassuming and unusual young woman. A horticulturist whose fingers are constantly itching to turn the soil and make the food that will enhance and sustain her grand experiment--to produce a rose that will survive the English climate and bloom more than once. She is continuing the work begun by her beloved mother. Margaret shares her work and insights with her particular friend Dr. Rhys Gray.Neither seems to think it unusual that they exchange letters weekly and sometimes three times within that space.Rhys is overjoyed that Margaret will be coming to London for a meeting with the society, but he'd forgotten the family problems that he is being counted on to solve.Those problems squarely interrupt Rhys' plans for his and Margaret's amusement but family has a way of knocking one off a set course. Rhys and Margaret find themselves in difficult situations. With their unspoken attraction for each other, and a possible fiancé in the background Rhys finds himself in more than one unlooked for and decidedly challenging position.This is one of those romance novels that shines light into awkward and endearing quarters! Intelligently written, witty and immensely enjoyable!A NetGalley & Pocket Books ARC
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the third book in Kate Noble’s Winner Takes All series and the one I enjoyed the most. That's because of the hero as much as the heroine.
I liked the fact that our heroine had a unique talent as a botanist, but I loved the relationship between her and our hero that starts off as a friendship forged through the correspondence about both their passions, botany. It eventually turns into romance, but I loved the journey they took toward each other.
This story is all character driven, fast paced and vastly entertaining and I highly recommend it!
Melanie for b2b
Complimentary copy provided by the publisher - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.Margaret Babcock, a keen gardener, has been corresponding with Dr Rhys Gray, who is both a doctor and an academic, pursuing research in his laboratory in Greenwich. Rhys arranges for Margaret to come to London to show the Horticultural Society a hybridized rose she has created. Once there Margaret, who is becoming aware of how much she values Rhys' "friendship", learns that his mother wants him to marry Sylvia Morton, the daughter of a neighbour, in order to heal over a dispute. Many years ago Lord Gray (entirely in the wrong in any case) fought a duel with Sylvia's father, Thomas, and dishonourably fired early, wounding Thomas in the back of the leg. Lord Gray and his eldest son, who tried to cover for him, have been living in exile abroad ever since and Lady Gray hopes a reconciliation between the families forged by the marriage will bring her husband home.While there were various little niggles I felt on the strict historical accuracy front (including the correspondence at the beginning, exactly what the status of the Gray family was - can you really come back from firing early in a duel? would the second son of a Lord really work as a doctor?), setting those aside, I enjoyed this story very much. The trip to the Greenwich laboratory was particularly well done. I struggled a bit to come to terms with Sylvia's character, but then that cleverly turned out to be good writing. I could have done with a bit less about the adorable baby and perhaps not quite so much of an emphasis on duelling, but I liked the characters of both Rhys and Margaret and thoroughly believed in their happily ever after.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Margaret Babcock is tall and a botanist, fairly reserved except for a few friends. On of these is Dr. Rhys Gray with whom Margaret maintains a correspondence. He arranges for her to come to London to display her prize roses to the Horticultural Society and to see the sights. They are very good friends with the potential for more, but Rhys is supposed to marry the daughter of a neighbor, Sylvia, due to some odd circumstances involving his father and brother.I generally enjoy friends to lovers romance, but here I felt that the story never got much beyond the friends aspect. Margaret and Rhys are appealing people with their disdain for society and their interests in botany and medicine. But I had a problem with Rhys attitude toward Sylvia. I get that he's conscientious and concerned for his family, but he seemed pretty weak in the way he ignored the problem rather than deal with it long ago. And it seemed to me that he would have continued this except Margaret finally pushes the issue which was a disappointment. He traded being pushed around by his mother to Sylvia and then finally Margaret which made it hard to admire him.The other problem with this book in my opinion is that it wasn't so much a Regency as maybe an American historical from the early 1900's in the way the characters acted and how it was set. If I had been more engaged in the romance I probably wouldn't care so much about this, but I kept getting pulled back out of the story because of things like a young Regency miss who is corresponding with a single man (shouldn't happen no matter how academic the correspondence). This was an okay book, but definitely not one of Ms. Noble's best.