Heart Doctor by Drew Zachary
One thing that I almost always find in a novel by Drew Zachary is the “easiness” of the characters, they are usually just a little over the average gay men, with ordinary job and a comfortable house in the suburbs. Maybe they are still young, students or just graduate, and the nice home in the suburbs is in their future. They are your neighbour, your brother, your son… and for this reason you can easily plunge in their love story, with a smile on your face, and enjoying their home-made love. But, one other thing that never lacks in a Drew Zachary’s novel is also the sex, nice, good and plenty as the story and as the home-made dishes that the story remembers.
Heart Doctor is also classical, yes, really, it’s the classical Medical Romance, or Nurse/Doctor romance as was known in the ’50 and ’60: basically, since nurses and doctors spend most of their time inside a hospital, it was obvious that the nurse (it was a woman in the ’50) would marry the doctor (it was young and handsome). Now the nurse is the same committed and pretty, but he is a man, Drey. Of Indian origin, he was saved the burn to have traditional parents (his same father was disowned by his family for marrying a non-Indian woman), and so Drey grew up serene and happy, comfortable with his sexuality and satisfied of his work; when he sets his eyes on the new doctor, Brady, there is no way that he will not conquer him.
Brady is new in town and maybe also a bit eager for family; he is ready for that, he has just landed his first important job after long years of studying, he can afford that, and right there is Drey, handsome, friendly, and he cooks too! Drey is perfect in every aspect, and he is also good in playing his cards: Brady is a bit on the conservative side, he doesn’t like the too much forward approach but he is not against the subtle wooing… in few words, Brady is a romantic, and like those doctors in the ’50, he likes to be pursued but the hunter has to have all the right characteristics for a long term relationship. And he has to respect that Brady will not put out at first date!
There is no big drama in the story, the feeling is really of a sweet romance, with the added spicy of the sex (and it’s a curry flavoured spicy). Date after date, night after night, dinner after breakfast after lunch, Drey and Brady will have the time to discover that they are perfect for each other, like two halves of the same apple, and I so much see in their horizon long afternoons spent on an Ikea megastore finding the perfect furniture for their comfortable future home in the suburbs.
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