As an accident and emergency room nurse, there’s not much that can catch Tilly off guard (not even those kinds of accidents). But when her bachelor flatmate gets a girlfriend and her sister announces she wants another baby, Tilly is surprised to find herself questioning her happily single existence.
Thankfully, the arrival of a new face on the ward offers a welcome distraction. With his lustrous hair, and charming personality, Dr Luke sets hearts racing all across the hospital. But as Tilly and Luke get to know each other better, she starts to wonder if he’s really her McDreamy after all...
Is Tilly being blinded by her determination to find someone? And while she’s looking in Luke's direction, will Tilly miss what’s right in front of her? (Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads.)
I thought it was interesting that the synopsis for Love, Accidentally references McDreamy, a character from the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve been catching up on the seasons, having not watched it the first go around, and I could totally see Luke as a McDreamy-type. For Tilly, he appears to be the total package, not only in the looks department, but she’s drawn to his more aloof personality. It felt like she took on his aloofness as a bit of a challenge, to see if she could break through and see a more vulnerable side that others don’t see in Luke.
And for a while, that works for Tilly. But she begins to see some red flags that aren’t really definable, and when she questions Luke, he has a reasonable answer for her. She wonders if maybe she is judging him too harshly, or not giving him the benefit of the doubt. But as the reader, I questioned Luke’s motives, too. When Tilly’s sister also questions Luke’s motives and if he’s really as honest as he claims to be, I couldn’t get how upset Tilly got over that observation. She feels like her sister is trying to derail her happiness, but I felt her sister wanted to protect her.
A side plot to the relationship between Tilly and Luke, is an unlikely friendship Tilly forms with a patient of hers. She often tells herself that she realizes maybe she’s crossing some boundaries in wanting to check in with the patient far too often, but I thought it was sweet and added a nice level of dimension to Tilly’s characterization. In forming the friendship, she gets a little bit more than she bargained for, feeling out what’s true and what’s not, and what matters to her the most.
Ultimately, Tilly is trying to decipher what’s best for her life. She is witness to a lot of change happening within her friendship circle, her roommate circle, and family circles, too, which makes her more susceptible to evaluating her own relationships and finding ways to welcome something more meaningful when it comes to romance and love. I thought Love, Accidentally was a cute, sweet experience, with McDreamys–and maybe even a McSteamy–for good measure.
Thankfully, the arrival of a new face on the ward offers a welcome distraction. With his lustrous hair, and charming personality, Dr Luke sets hearts racing all across the hospital. But as Tilly and Luke get to know each other better, she starts to wonder if he’s really her McDreamy after all...
Is Tilly being blinded by her determination to find someone? And while she’s looking in Luke's direction, will Tilly miss what’s right in front of her? (Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads.)
I thought it was interesting that the synopsis for Love, Accidentally references McDreamy, a character from the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve been catching up on the seasons, having not watched it the first go around, and I could totally see Luke as a McDreamy-type. For Tilly, he appears to be the total package, not only in the looks department, but she’s drawn to his more aloof personality. It felt like she took on his aloofness as a bit of a challenge, to see if she could break through and see a more vulnerable side that others don’t see in Luke.
And for a while, that works for Tilly. But she begins to see some red flags that aren’t really definable, and when she questions Luke, he has a reasonable answer for her. She wonders if maybe she is judging him too harshly, or not giving him the benefit of the doubt. But as the reader, I questioned Luke’s motives, too. When Tilly’s sister also questions Luke’s motives and if he’s really as honest as he claims to be, I couldn’t get how upset Tilly got over that observation. She feels like her sister is trying to derail her happiness, but I felt her sister wanted to protect her.
A side plot to the relationship between Tilly and Luke, is an unlikely friendship Tilly forms with a patient of hers. She often tells herself that she realizes maybe she’s crossing some boundaries in wanting to check in with the patient far too often, but I thought it was sweet and added a nice level of dimension to Tilly’s characterization. In forming the friendship, she gets a little bit more than she bargained for, feeling out what’s true and what’s not, and what matters to her the most.
Ultimately, Tilly is trying to decipher what’s best for her life. She is witness to a lot of change happening within her friendship circle, her roommate circle, and family circles, too, which makes her more susceptible to evaluating her own relationships and finding ways to welcome something more meaningful when it comes to romance and love. I thought Love, Accidentally was a cute, sweet experience, with McDreamys–and maybe even a McSteamy–for good measure.
Thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for the book in exchange for an honest review.
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