This is not going to turn into a Betty Neels' book blog, but I'm still on my Betty Neels' reading streak.
After reading so many BN novels with heroes who don't tell the heroines anything and whose actions are sufficiently vague, it has been a bit of a relief to read a string of her novels in which the heroes are a bit more clear about their intentions. Justin, our rich, handsome, Dutch, redheaded (not blond) doctor goes right after our plain, English, clueless nurse, Emma.
Did I mention that Emma is clueless? Yes. I had wondered if I would ever use the expression, "too stupid to live," in a review (and I seriously don't mean to be exceptionally rude or disrespectful); however, Emma...kind of earned it. Everyone, ...and I mean, everyone else in the novel knew that Justin loved Emma, but Emma herself. From the beginning of their relationship, when they meet in a literal fender bender (Emma's bumper gets caught against his in a car accident), one can tell that Justin is interested in her when he takes a good long look at her passport while they are "exchanging" contact information. The woman was supposed to have been a medical student, except that life got in the way. Obviously, her relationship intelligence quotient didn't measure up to her professional abilities. Still, Wish with the Candles was better than other BN novels in which the heroes let the heroines flounder in the face of mixed romantic signals.
