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When the Cover Surpasses the Content

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

July 9, 2024 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

I’m normally a squeamish person when it comes to gore and all manner of medical procedures, but I jumped into Anatomy: A Love Story eagerly. I anticipated a nice mixture of blood and love, and superficially, my needs were met. Unfortunately, there were myriad problems with the story, including pacing and an inert love triangle. The time is the 1800’s and the place is Scotland. Hazel is a teenager with a passion for being a doctor, despite the almost insurmountable odds against her. She sneaks […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: Dana Schwartz

esmemoria's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: Dana Schwartz ·
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Like a Surgeon

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

January 11, 2023 by jeverett15 1 Comment

How’s this for a tenuous connection? This is a novel I only read because I really enjoy a podcast that’s hosted by the author’s husband. Well, that and the fact that it was set in Edinburgh, a city I loved visiting. Oh, and it was like two bucks on Amazon. Turns out, none of those are great ways to pick out a novel. Hazel is a teenage girl from a wealthy family living in a castle outside Edinburgh. Her father, a naval officer, is on […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Dana Schwartz

jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Dana Schwartz ·
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19th century medicine was unhinged, and this book revels in that.

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

January 17, 2022 by narfna 6 Comments

Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I did the thing where the beautiful cover lured me in, but this time it wasn’t a disaster! In fact, the book mostly earns it! I was *thisclose* to giving Anatomy: A Love Story five stars, in fact, until the ending. YMMV on this ending, seriously. What happened is something that I have read in YA historical fiction books before, and it bothered me there as well, and […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: anatomy: a love story, ARCs, audiobooks, Dana Schwartz, historical fiction, narfna, Romance, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: anatomy: a love story, ARCs, audiobooks, Dana Schwartz, historical fiction, narfna, Romance, Young Adult ·
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