In the Doctor's Bed

Book - In the Doctor's Bed - Brenda Jackson
Where I got it - I belong to a website - tellharlequin.com - and they send you free books about once every two or three months. All you have to do is fill out the occasional survey and they will keep sending them to you, this was one of them
Why I never read it before - I am truly not into Harlequin romance novels, I just can't say no to free books.
My Rating - 2/5

Review -

This book was mostly plotless, what plot there was in it was ok, but not great. Basically it is a love story between an intern in a hospital and her boss. The hospital has a nonfraternization policy, so the two of them are not allowed to be together.
I had looked forward to the medical part of the story, unfortunately there wasn't much. You see them in the hospital a couple of times, but not much happens there. Most of the story is the two characters, Lucian and Jaclyn, sneaking off to have sex and meet in places that no one from the hospital will see them.
The most interesting part of the plot is the fact that the hospital has a lawsuit up against it because Lucien fired an intern because Jaclyn caught him stealing drugs. The two main characters spend a lot of the book worrying about said lawsuit and then...none of that is resolved at the end of the novel.
The romance is alright...some of the lines that Lucien says are painful. Whenever he opened his mouth to say something 'sexy' I couldn't help but think how ridiculous it would sound if someone said that in real life.
The story has a happy ending, Lucien switches to the ER so that the two can be together since he won't be her boss again. I wouldn't say that I hated this book. I enjoyed it enough as a quick, fluffy and pointless read :)

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Book - Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Where I got it - My dad once brought me a home a box-set of classic novels, this was one of the ones in the set.
Why I never read it before - Like Pride and Prejudice, it was hard for me to get into. The old language made it seem boring and it is also a pretty big book.
My Rating - 1/5

Review -

Honestly, I found this book to be pretty boring. I felt that it just went on and on forever and that the story went all over the place into places that it didn't really need to go. The beginning had certain parts that I almost wanted to skip through because I didn't see the point of them. I actually did skim through the whole Christmas Night Play thing at the beginning. Can you say boring? Also, the parts in the beginning where they have their story club? It's nice for kids to have a story club but do we need to have seven pages worth of their actual stories in this novel?
Also, considering this book is part of my series called "Romantic Classics" there really isn't much romance in it, maybe that's why I was disappointed. Jo spends a good chunk of the book hanging out with her neighbour and best friend, Laurie. Was I the only one who expected these two to actually get together by the end of the book? Laurie was soooo in love with Jo and then we he found out that she wouldn't have him he turned around and married her youngest sister. Hello? What? That came pretty much out of nowhere for me. There were a couple of chapters to show them getting close, but the first 3/4s of the book show Laurie seeing Amy as nothing but a (kind of annoying) little sister.
I mean sure, Jo did find love at the end of the novel, she married the old Professor guy. Same thing, they show them falling in love at the end of the book, but when the Professor is first introduced I don't think Jo had any feelings like that for him at all. She even said to her mother 'he's forty so there's nothing to worry about'. He was just this cool older guy that she really admired, like as a mentor, not as someone that she wanted to marry.
Also, Meg marries so tutor guy and they have kids and then become the most boring characters in the whole book.
Other than that...no romance! Most of this book was pretty childish stuff. There were a few parts that were interesting and a couple of sections that I enjoyed. For example, I like the part with Jo and Amy fighting and then Amy falling through the ice. I enjoyed the parts about Beth going to visit that poor family and then catching Scarlet Fever from their baby (which ultimately killed her like six years later). The times of hardship and struggle were the only parts in this book that actually seemed real to me, the rest of it I honestly think just took off and went into such far off places of reality that it ruined this book for me.

Oh, one last thing, don't even buy the 'Romantic Classics' box set. I have only read two of the books that are in it but they are riddled with so many typos and spelling mistakes that it makes it difficult to read them. Pride and Prejudice wasn't as bad, there would be sections with lots of typos and then none for a while. Little Women....it was painful, there were periods and quotation marks in the wrong spot on almost every page and the word 'he' was almost always replaced with the word 'her', it was like reading a really bad translation of the book.