At a summer camp they both attended at age 9, Wren and Madison became very fast friends, mostly because Wren was the only person happy and engaged when listening to Madison ramble about ancient Egyptian history factoids. Madison herself is a quiet, socially closed-off doctor who leads her clinic with distinction and is always doing two things at once, but Wren’s mortification stems from an earlier meeting they had. We don’t really get a lot of description of her, but eventually Wren does recognize the doctor as Madison, and is mortified. After getting a ton of photos taken by randoms she’s rushed to the hospital, and finds that the attending doctor is incredibly hot. Image is a concern for her, and the press theorizes that she was drunk driving, possibly after a gay party because coming out was also a concern for her. The gist is this Wren is a famous TV and film actress lady who is friendly with press and fans to the point that when her car gets t-boned at an intersection, she can be seen with a camera-smile, waving out of the driver’s side and covered in blood from a head wound.
Thankfully it is nowhere near as poorly constructed as Something to Talk About, not sorry.
I have to be honest, I almost passed on this one, purely on the basis of “celebrity” and while I’m semi glad I didn’t, some of my evil preconceived notions were right. G Benson pretty much has a theme of sapphic medical/doctor romances, as seen in Flinging It and All The Little Moments, but this year’s never-discussed Purposefully Accidental rolls in a whole bunch of other tropes, most notably the CELEBRITY ROMANCE! It has a very solid emotional core for the silliness to orbit around, and the inevitable ‘wtf’ questions you’ll have get paid off. It sounds almost unreasonably silly, but there is a genuinely excellent plot rolled into it and I enjoyed it pretty thoroughly. I am personally familiar with author G Benson from the pretty-good Who’d Have Thought, a novel about an ice-queen doctor lady who very unprofesionally pays a nurse working under her to pretend to be her girlfriend, to the tune of $240,000. Hello, I’m aslowdyke and you’re not, but if you do happen to be a self-described slow dyke, it’s good to be in like company again.
I had to slam this out while the book is still fresh in my mind, or I’ll forget everything.
0 kommentar(er)
