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Rescue Team by Candace Calvert Review

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I hope everyone's week is off to a great start, and I want to thank you all for joining me today on The Preppy Book Princess.

About a week and a half ago, I unfortunately had just finished reading three books in a row that all got two stars from me-something that honestly doesn't happen that often. I decided to pick up Candace Calvert's Rescue Team from my tbr pile, in the hope of finding an amazing read to get me out of my two star book slump, and I'm happy to say I was definitely not disappointed.

I reviewed the first book, Trauma Plan,  in her Grace Medical series a few months back and you can find that review here. 



Rescue Team by Candace Calvert:



Source: Church Library

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers

Publication Date: May 1st, 2013

Genre: Inspirational Fiction/Medical Drama

Synopsis:

Tired of running from her past, nurse Kate Callison intends to become Austin Grace Hospital's permanent ER director and make Texas her home. Despite staff friction, she's moving ahead. Then unthinkable tragedy wraps the ER in crime tape, bringing swarms of media, legal chaos--and a search-and-rescue hero who seems determined to meddle in her life. For Wes Tanner, nothing beats finding someone who's lost; he's known that helpless terror firsthand. So he'll expand his team's lifeline of hope: K9 tracking, swift water rescue, even horse-mounted searches. He's ready for anything--except Austin Grace's prickly and dismissive ER director. As Kate and Wes discover more about each other, new respect becomes something deeper. Kate wonders if her heart might have finally found a home. Then an unsolved missing persons case--and a startling new one--become catalysts that threaten the loss of all she and Wes have found.


******synopsis from goodreads*****



My Review:

I never really thought that medical dramas were my type of read, but Candace Calvert's beautifully written, heart wrenching stories are definitely changing my mind on that notion.

In Rescue Team, the story moves to Austin, Texas at Austin Grace Hospital, but tells Kate's story, an ER nurse who was introduced in the first book, Trauma Plan. Kate has recently taken the temporary position as Grace Hospital's emergency room director after the previous director went missing. Right from the start, she's facing many difficult issues in trying to keep her emergency room running efficiently; including patient complaints, media ill wanted attention, and low morale among her staff. Things take a turn for the worse when an abandoned baby is discovered in one of the emergency room washrooms, and suddenly Austin Grace hospital finds itself in headlines everywhere. The evening the baby was abandoned, a search and rescue hero enters Kate's life. Wes Tanner seems to be everything Kate's not, and she's determined to keep her distance. After all, how could someone with perfect faith who had a perfect upbringing ever be interested in someone like Kate who has made massive mistakes in the past that she's sure no one could ever forgive her for.

Candace Calvert was an emergency room nurse herself, and this definitely shines through to the reader in the heartfelt way the emergency room scenes are written. I literally felt like I was right there experiencing everything along with the ER staff, even though I knew nothing about the medical terminology that's dispersed throughout- a fact that indicates just how talented of an author Candace Calvert truly is. Kate's story was heartbreaking to read, and showcases both the fact that turmoil in childhood can have such a negative effect on children, and that you can never truly run from your past, instead you need to work through it. In Rescue Team, the faith element is blended in beautifully to the developing story, and I loved how the author chose to focus on the fact that you can't truly heal old hurts without the help of our Heavenly Father.

When I picked this book up I was expecting a faith based, medical drama, but I got so much more than I was expecting. A beautiful romance that begins as a friendship, two protagonists who need to learn to "let go and let God," a couple of mysteries woven throughout; including who abandoned their baby and what happened to the previous ER director, and an overall emphasis on Jesus' unfailing love, and the importance of family, friendship and redemption. 

I actually ended up loving this second edition in the series even more than I did the first, and as numerous scenes in this book hint at who's going to be the main character in the third book, I'm definitely looking forward to picking that one up as well.

Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I literally had no complaints about this one, and I highly recommend. I didn't think that Kate was going to be a character I was going to care for, but I was proven wrong, and my heart was breaking for her for everything she'd had to go through, and the fact that until Wes came along, she'd faced it all alone-believing there was no way that God or her friends and family could ever truly forgive her.

Definitely pick this one up if you're looking for a heart wrenching, medical drama that focuses on God's love for us, and the way that true healing can only come through finding Him!

Favorite Quote: "He said good memories are God's mercy, that they give us hope. And not having hope is the 'worst kind of lost.'"

Thanks so much for reading guys! I hope you have a great rest of your day, and I'll see you all again on Friday!

This is not a sponsored post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. The photo does not belong to me, and all rights to the respective owner. 

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