Hello everyone,
Happy release day to The Doctor by Nikki Sloane! 🎉🎉
I've been talking about this book for a while, but if you saw my initial post you know I was wary of it because it's an age gap romance and I'm not a fan of the trope. But, it's by my fave Nikki Sloane who wrote The Rivalry (my review) which I loved and Sordid and Torrid (my review), which I ended up really enjoying much to my surprise.
Read on for my thoughts about The Doctor...
Publisher: self-pubbedRelease Date: August 29, 2018 (out today!)
Source of my copy: author
Series: standalone
My rating:
Synopsis
For years, he was a part of my life. I watched him rush to the hospital countless times, his beautiful surgeon hands racing to save lives.
After all this time, I can’t escape the truth.
I want Dr. Lowe.
Lust chokes each moment we’re together. He promises to fulfill my fantasies—every dirty, naughty desire we can dream up.
Only, I can’t have him.
He’s confident. Experienced. Seductive.
And he’s my ex-boyfriend’s father.
I was suffering from the most horrible reading slump and The Doctor came just at the right time to cure me. Ha! For real, though. I was surprised how much I quickly devoured it and after I was done, I got my reading mojo back. Thanks The Doctor!
The Doctor is a standalone novel (although Nikki had announced that she's writing other books connected to it--I hope so because there were a couple characters we met that are just dying for an HEA) about 19-year-old Cassidy, who just finished her freshman year of college, and 40-year-old Dr. Gregory Lowe, Cassidy's ex-boyfriend Preston's single father.
Cassidy and Preston had been together for three years, but for a while now they haven't been as close and Cassidy felt like Preston had been taking her for granted. She tried to for a while to salvage their relationship, but she knew there was no saving it. They've just drifted too far apart and they have to break up. But, for Cassidy, breaking up with Preston wasn't the hardest thing. Instead, it was also saying goodbye to Preston's dad, Dr. Lowe.
Cassidy's tearful goodbye ended in a steamy situation with Dr. Lowe, which neither can forget. It turns out both were harboring sexual fantasies about each other. Soon the two of them were embarking on a full-on secret and scandalous affair, exploring their deepest and most naughtiest fantasies with each other.
If you like your smut extra smutty you're going to love The Doctor! The emphasis is definitely on the sex here rather anything else. If you've read Nikki's previous books you know she can write a damn good sex scene that will leave you all hot and bothered, and she delivered on the sex in The Doctor. The sex was frequent but they never read like copycat of each other.
However, since The Doctor emphasized on the sex, I did miss the scenes where Cassidy and Greg just hung out and talked all the while the sexual tension builds and intensifies. There were a couple of scenes like that but were told rather than shown that they happened, or conversation quickly turns into sex again. Not that I'm complaining about the frequency of the sex scenes because in that moment in time I needed a smutty read to get me out of my reading slump (sometimes you just need that, you know?) but in any other time it would've been a bigger issue for me. In the end, their "I love yous" somewhat felt very surface level because the story lacked non-sex scenes that shows that their relationship was developing at a deeper degree. Also, since the story was told entirely in Cassidy's POV, I never fully connected with Greg's character. I wished we also had chapters in his perspective, especially in the last few scenes of the book where all the things happened. It would've elevated the emotional aspect of the story.
I mentioned before that I am not a fan of age gap romances. They make me uncomfortable because they're too close to the student-teacher trope which (as a teacher/librarian) is a big N-O for me. But, I thought Nikki did a good job in The Doctor. I never felt any weird power imbalances between Cassidy and Greg. Cassidy was mature for her age and Greg always got Cassidy's consent when he'd introduce her to a new thing (ahem like anal sex).
If you're in the mood for a super smutty read only the way Nikki Sloane does it without it turning all fetish-y, then The Doctor is for you. You'll devour it probably in two sittings, but before you pick it up remember to load up on ice water and turn up the AC--it will be that steamy hot!
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Want a little taste of The Doctor? I posted an excerpt here.
Nikki Sloane landed in graphic design after her careers as a waitress, a screenwriter, and a ballroom dance instructor fell through. For eight years she worked for a design firm in that extremely tall, black, and tiered building in Chicago that went through an unfortunate name change during her time there. Now she lives in Kentucky and manages a team of graphic artists. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, is married with two sons, writes dirty books, and couldn’t be any happier.
Happy reading,
Michelle
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