It lacked the excitement, and I was annoyed with too many conveniences. But a body is a body whether it was hanged or not, and doctors don’t care so much about the law as you might think.”įor a novel that deals with matters of life and death, the first half of Anatomy: A Love Story was very slow, really just setting everything. “Problem is, everyone knows when a hanging is, everyone’s fighting over the body. Hazel should be just one of his clients, but her unusually strong will and approach to challenges clearly sets her apart. Jack digs up dead bodies for a living and sells them to local medical schools and various other practitioners with the utmost of discretion. Vivid, ambitious, determined and reckless as she is, Hazel does the only thing she can – she finds herself a resurrection man to supply her with a fresh stream of dead bodies.Įnter Jack Currer. But only if she passes the examination on her own. Then she gets an opportunity of a lifetime, and she might just get a chance to officially study the field she loves with all of her heart. But she has no firsthand experience, and her dream is to get her hands dirty, so to speak. She’s always been fascinated by the human body, having read all the books in the family library on the subject.
Hazel was a compelling character, easy to root for. But surgeons especially had a bad reputation, as they used to be little more than butchers.
#Dana schwartz book professional
Now, any sort of professional occupation would be seen as inappropriate for a lady of her class back then. We follow Hazel Sinnett, who wants nothing more in life than to become a physician, and more specifically – a surgeon. How diverting! Look, quick, come see: a woman who fancies reading about blood and gore! Pay your tuppence, go inside, she’ll even pretend she’s going to be a surgeon someday! Don’t worry if she stains her skirts with bile-one of her servants will clean it off for her. Plus, I’m pretty sure the story starts in September, and I’m also pretty sure it stretches through the winter and all the way to spring, but the weather kind of stays ‘fall-appropriate’. Edinburgh setting, gory details, dark academia, grave robbers, Victorian operating theaters, alchemy… It kind of gave me loose Frankenstein vibes, with occasional Sweeney Todd elements as well. Or ever.īecause it was just one of those things you click or don’t click with, you know? And I clicked with it.Īnatomy: A Love Story has lots of elements I like, that are perfect for fall. (Have you seen that cover and read that description?) And though not perfect in any way, this book got closer to my ideal match more than any other book I’ve read recently. I guess I’m on a sort of a quest, trying to find my perfect fall book.Īnatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz got onto my TBR for obvious reasons. This fall, I decided to read as many books as I possibly can that give away any kind of autumnal vibes. And then you see it firsthand, and you realize how thin the line is between everything being all right and everything being ruined forever and you just become suddenly aware that you know nothing. I used to think that I knew everything, that I could do anything. a young lady fighting to break out of the moldĪnatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz – My Review.surgeons at the time when they were practically butchers.Edinburgh at the beginning of the 19th century.He agrees to help Hazel, but his profession is getting more and more dangerous, when strange men start to appear around graveyards and Jack’s friends start to disappear off the streets. Jack Currer is a resurrection man used to digging up corpses for a living. She needs actual corpses to dissect and study from. Without the official lessons, though, studying just from the books will never be enough. If Hazel manages to pass the medical examination on her own, the university will allow her to enroll. Beecham’s, classes.īut she soon gets discovered and is forced to make a deal with Dr. She knows that as a woman she’ll never be allowed to enroll anatomy lectures, so she sneaks her way into her idol surgeon, Dr. Hazel Sinnett is an upper class young lady who’d much rather be a surgeon than marry a future Viscount. This story is set in 1817, Edinburgh, where secrets are literally buried. The only freedom is freedom from love, and once your love is gone, it can be perfect, crystallized in your memory forever. The fear of losing the ones we love makes us do selfish and foolish and cruel things.
Love is nothing but the prolonged agony of waiting for it to end. RATED ON GOODREADS – 3.79 of 5 What It Is About GENRE – historical, romance, mystery, gothic, fantasy, paranormal, dark academia Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz – Book Details
0 kommentar(er)
