[Review] Taming Her Navy Doc by Amy Ruttan

Amy Ruttan
Taming Her Navy Doc
[romance]

You can buy it here:
Taming Her Navy Doc (Amazon hardcover)
Taming Her Navy Doc (Amazon eBook)

FTC: I received an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Summary (via Netgalley):
The one woman to tame him…

Finally the injured navy SEAL who had once been brought to surgeon Erica Griffin in the dead of night has a name: Captain Thorne Wilder—her new commanding officer! Five years later he's just as gorgeous as Erica remembers…but now he's totally off-limits!

Thorne has been left damaged, brooding and untamable after the loss of his dreams—and beautiful Erica is an unwanted complication! She might be as wary of relationships as he is, but fighting temptation will be the biggest battle of all…

My thoughts:
Oh wow! This was one swoon-worthy romance novel! I went in not expecting much. I was simply hoping for a pick me up, feel good story in between my sometimes hard to read university literature, and here I am, still unsure as to how to best describe how much I enjoyed this story.

I am still not sure why our heroine, Erica, constantly butchered sayings like "don't judge a book by its cover". Other than that, she did not have any problems with English, and she did not even come from a different country (speaking a number of languages, I can say that yes, frequently those sayings do not translate well). This really distracted and confused me, but it was not so bad that I would not continue reading, it was simply a mild stumble every time it happened.

In general, however, this was one wonderful love story. I liked how Thorne was torn between having Erica, the surgeon who took his leg, as his second in command, while still liking her - even more so once he got to know her than before when she was a mere memory from the hazy minutes or maybe hours he was in her care. It felt very realistic how he did not know what to feel regarding Erica.

And then there is our heroine, Erica. She did not have an easy life, so I understand how she focused on her career. I just wanted to hug her frequently, and I do not often feel like I can relate to a character whose life has nothing in common with mine.

I will definitely check out more of Ruttan's novels when the semester is over and I do not have to deal with a big stack of literature anymore. (Oops, as soon as the semester is over, I should work on my master's thesis, I suppose?!)

I am incredibly happy I chose this romance novel. Amy Ruttan truly delivered here and I am happy I was given the opportunity to review "Taming Her Navy Doc".

Rating:
4.5/5

Another attempt?

Hi everyone,

So, I am not the best of bloggers these past three years. And I am really sorry about that. It was definitely not intentional, but life just happened and still happens - and when family or university call, they definitely are high up on my list of priorities. During this time I have taken all the classes I still needed to take in order to register for my final exams and my thesis, and this is where I am now. I am in the middle of writing my thesis in a field that is relatively new and on a topic that has not been researched all that much yet. This means I am busy, busy, busy with attaining test subjects, reading up on how to do case studies - which I have never done before - and all the little details this entails. It also means I have a lot of fun doing something I truly enjoy, but in the end, it is still work that needs to be done within a certain time frame, and so I am busy with it for the most part.

For blogging, I have decided that I want to get back into it at least to some degree. However, for me this means I will blog whenever I have read a book, which realistically may not happen regulary. So far for this year I am working on my 24th book of the year. In the past, this would have been nothing for me! I was reading 100 books per year, no doubt about it, but at the moment, this just is not happening. It is sad, but I do realize that I spend so much time doing other things that are also necessary, so I am okay with it. I will post book reviews whenever I have something to actually talk about, but I will also try to keep you in the loop with what I am reading. This means that I will not have a real schedule, but work with what I have. For today, I have a review scheduled, actually. It will go up later today and I can tell you already that it was a book I truly enjoyed!

Also, to get a bit more content on here, I will make my works come true. I have had a crush on beauty-related items for years, and I have kept it under covers because I felt odd talking about it. I learned about makeup relatively late in life and almost everything I know I had to figure out on my own / with the help of the internet. That means I really am doing things how I feel they should work. Nonetheless, I am a bit of a researcher here, so I know what to look out for to work with my skin - and especially my ever so pale skintone! So, I will add in posts about this aspect of my life here and there as well. I hope you bare with me there. It would be nice to go on this journey with you!

Love, Kat