Review: Well worth a read, lovely and incredibly moving!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
Melting Her Ice Queens Heart by Amy Ruttan has left me feeling moved.  It's a classic love story where two strangers, opposites of every thing they know, are attracted to each other, they embrace their differences and allow their differences to enhance their relationship rather than divide it.Dr Virginia Potter is Chief of Surgery and in the opening scene is taking her hospitals investors through the emergency and trauma departments which she's desperately trying to save from closure.  The last thing she needs to find is Dr Gavin Brice up on top of a patient inserting tubing into him to save him.... whilst NOT in the operating theater, in act he's right there in the middle of everything.Dr Brice doesn't give a rats when he's called to account about where he was... all that matters to him is that he's saving a life.  He's in a world completely foreign to him and he doesn't understand why if a life needs saving he can just do it without getting hassled by hospital bureaucracy.  Dr Brice has been out on the field, working with a team of mostly 10 at any one time in the remotest parts of the world delivering medical help to all who need it.  Everything is within reach.  He can be a surgeon and save lives on the dirt fields of places you and I would never dream of going to.  Being in the middle of a Hospital in San Franciso is akin to a farmer being asked to work in an office.So being introduced to the investors leads the book down one path, Virginia has a drive to save the hospital which has a pro bono budget.  She has a passion to deliver medical assistance to those who cant afford it for personal reasons... last thing she wants is a plastics surgery ward.  She wants to save her staffs jobs and above she thinks it's time to dig deep and visit her family.  Then we learn why Gavin is in town at a hospital that he doesn't want to be in and this is the other main theme in the book.  And thru a chance meeting Virginia discovers the reason and some how over seafood chowder the two form a bond which continues to grow over the story.Of course there's always a hiccup and this comes towards the end and the reason why I'm going to give this book 5 stars, I felt moved and quietly felt a tear run down my cheek!Unlike most medical romances this book doesn't focus on the amazing medical drama's, it focus's more on Virginia and Gavin and their world inside and outside of the hospital.  It's a sweet, warm and very moving story which was written in such a lovely way I will defiantly be coming back for more.Melting Her Ice Queens Heart is a brilliant example of a love story that's still enjoyable without including all the fighting and make-up sex ;) (dont get me wrong, i love those too lol)