Wendy Williams
Four and a Half Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭒ Reawakened at the South Pole by Juliette Hyland is an exciting, and lovely medical romance that takes place in one of the most remote and inhabitable places on Earth. Once I started reading Reawakened at the South Pole, I couldn’t put this down until I finished. Emergency Room nurse Helena Mathews has a lot to prove to her parents. As a premature and sick baby, her parents coddled and protected her while growing up. Her parents never had high expectations of her and didn’t like her to take any risks. So when she applied for and was accepted to take a 9-month rotation at the South Pole expedition location, she knew this is her chance to prove to her parents that she can live a full life and take risks. Helena does not expect to run into her childhood friend Doctor Carter Simpson who is on his third rotation at the South Pole as the clinics’ doctor. Carter Simpson was her brother’s best friend in school and Helena’s friend as well. When he disappeared, along with his family at the end of school, both Helena and her brother tried, but couldn’t find him again, and they never knew why he left so fast. I really enjoyed the medical aspect of this book. It’s clear that the author has a background in medicine as the clinical scenes were well described and interesting without being gory or too explicit. I loved the inside look into the operations of the South Pole expedition center, it was interesting to read about the issues the residents have living in such extreme conditions. The characters were very well developed and both Helena and Carter had to resolve their own issues in order to feel like they deserved love. They both had strong motivations to volunteer for these extreme conditions, and it was interesting to see how these motivations changed over the course of the book. I highly recommend this book to lovers of medical romances and anyone interested in the inner workings of a research center at the South Pole. I received a complimentary copy of this book. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.