GRR Reviews Deliver Me (The Holmes Brothers Book 1) by Farrah Rochon

Deliver Me is a contemporary "doctors" romance set in New Orleans. The background was excellent, but I have a little problem with FMC's personality and vulnerability that lead to a very cliche darkest hour.

Monica Gardner MD was passed over for another promotion at the hospital she worked at and got dumped by her boyfriend, that she had to leave town. She moved all the way to New Orleans post-Katrina determined to make a name for herself as ER physician. She didn't count on her instant love-hate relationship she had with the gorgeous OB/GYN Elijah Holmes, who yelled at her when she performed an emergency C-section on a pregnant woman. Though to his credit, she was temporarily decked out in nurse's scrubs when a boy upchucked over her doctor's scrubs. Forced to co-chair the hospital's charity banquet, they have to work closely with each other when he sprung on her the surprise... Eli is forever haunted by his mother to reunite him with his high school GF... so Eli needs Monica to play his new girlfriend. But when they develop real feelings for each other...

I find the New Orleans atmosphere to be excellent, and both characters are nicely rounded. However, I find Monica's personality inconsistent. She's an ER physician, so she can't be rattled. But somehow her personal relationship problems lead her to flee once (to New Orleans), and contemplated another run... Just because she saw... something. Consider this really a 3.5 /5 instead of 4.

Category:  Contemporary

Primary Plot: ER lady Doc went to New Orleans to start over; handsome OB/GYN doc needed her to play his fiancee; they fall in love...

Tropes: fake engagement, jilted, fish out of water, co-worker

Overall Rating:  4/5 (rounded up)