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Eyes of Amber: A contemporary medical romance with forgotten letters from WWII Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 27, 2019
- File size377 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B07NQ1SDYG
- Publisher : Highpoint Publishing (February 27, 2019)
- Publication date : February 27, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 377 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 256 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,190,018 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,602 in Medical Romance (Books)
- #2,659 in Medical Romance (Kindle Store)
- #166,881 in Contemporary Romance (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Anya Stassiy grew up reading classics by Tolstoy and Dostoevskiy. In college, she enjoyed creative writing classes and has written several medical articles working as a Physician Assistant. As an adult, Anya decided to go on an adventure of writing fiction as a hobby. She published her first novel, Eyes of Amber, in March of 2019, which has received numerous positive reviews from readers, in November 2019 Spice of Love was released. In December of 2020, Anya released her third novel in a new for her genre, Urban Fantasy. It is called Keymaker's Daughter. Anya continues to enjoy writing fiction and has started work on a fourth novel which will be the second book in Keymaker series.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2019
It was especially fun for me to read the book while commuting by train back and forth to New York City.
Anya Stassiy, author of "Eyes Of Amber" has written a memorable, enjoyable and entertaining novel. The Genres for this Novel are Romance, Fiction, and Women's Fiction. The timeline for this story is set in the present and goes back in time to introduce the main character's grandmother and other characters and events. The present-day story takes place in New York City. The author describes her characters as complicated.
Mila literally bumps into Leo. Leo picks the things that have fallen out of Mila's pocketbook up, and Mila immediately reacts to him. The next time Mila sees Leo is on her first day as her training as an ER doctor. Leo it seems is a more experienced doctor on staff that Mila has to report to. Mila thinks of her professional life first.
Mila reads letters written by her deceased grandmother about her love and the war. Mila finds it hard to believe that one can have such great love. Somehow some of her grandmother's words seem to make her think of Leo.
I appreciate that the author writes about important problems in society such as drug use, and the danger of stalkers and mental illness.
I would recommend this novel to readers that like a satisfying ending.
The first chapter is from Leo's perspective in the third person past; he’s going to turn out to be the hero. We see him having an encounter with a former patient who is stalking him. The next chapter skips to the heroine, Mila, written in the first person present; the Mila section goes on for quite a while. At this point, we have no idea how the first chapter with Leo relates to the Mila chapters. The potential future correlation was not apparent, so this made the writing seem disjointed. Also, in general, I don't like shifts between third and first person or past and present tense when the narrator changes; unfortunately, this book had both. I think one way (both person and tense) should be chosen and kept consistent no matter who the actual narrator of a chapter is. Otherwise, it is too jarring.
Multiple storylines are going on in this book: Leo’s storyline with the stalker patient, Mila’s grandma’s letters’ storyline, Mila’s storyline as a new resident at the hospital, and the romance storyline. I know all these are probably meant to support each other and interweave, but that didn't happen. I quite enjoyed the love letters from World War II. They were well written and poignant. But with all that happens in the present, this storyline got lost. While I'm not a doctor, I am a registered nurse. I haven't gone through residency, of course, but I have seen doctors interact in the hospital setting, and what was portrayed in the book did not seem realistic to me. (By the way, I not only work with doctors, but my nephew is a young resident.). The hospital storyline, with its stories about the patients, didn't mesh with the other plotlines. It seems like there are several books here combined into one.
The book ended rather abruptly. I would have liked to see all the storylines come together at the end and into one complete resolution, but that didn't happen.
There were some issues with diction, especially words having to do with medicine. One that I particularly found odd is that* residency* was called *residence* at one point, as in the doctor had an *ER residents*.
I did receive a free advance copy, but this did not affect my review.