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Customer Reviews for Tyndale House Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
Tyndale House Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
Tired of running from her past, nurse Kate Callison intends to become Austin Grace Hospital's permanent ER director and make Texas her home. 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.
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Customer Reviews for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
Review 1 for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
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Sequel to Trauma Plan
Date:May 9, 2013
Quality:
4
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Value:
4
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Meets Expectations:
4
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Kate Callison is the interim director of the emergency department at Austin Grace Hospital, and she’s finding it hard to fill the shoes of her saintly predecessor, Sunni Sprague, who disappeared several months ago. Staff morale is at an all-time low and she is under pressure to improve the reputation of the ER following a series of critical letters published in the local paper. Things get worse when an abandoned newborn baby is discovered in the ER bathrooms, a tragedy that reminds Kate of the secret she has tried to forget.
Wes Tanner is the perfect man. Handsome, blue eyes, works in the family business and leads a small volunteer search and rescue in Houston, Texas. He searches for the lost because he still wonders why his mother committed suicide when he was a child. He is attracted to Kate, but she keeps herself aloof from everyone, especially her father.
There lots of suspense and a nice romance with a good mix of internal and external conflict and an underlying theme of being lost then found. Rescue Team is very well plotted and relatively complex, with solid and likeable yet fallible characters, especially Kate and her father, Matt.
There were a lot of characters including five viewpoint characters, and while they weren’t difficult to keep straight, I do think five is too many point of view characters in a novel of this length. Kate and Wes, as heroine and hero in a medical romance, were obvious viewpoint characters, and I could see why Matt, Kate’s father, was important.
The other two? The inclusion of one effectively revealed her role in the ‘mystery’ of the letters, while I’m still not sure if the other was a red herring or just setting the character up as being the lead in the next book in the series. This is the second in the Grace Medical series. I had no trouble following the story in Rescue Team, even though I haven’t read Trauma Plan, the first in the series. Good, but some lingering questions and too many viewpoint characters prevent it being great.
Thanks to Tyndale House and NetGalley for providing a free ebook for review.
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Review 2 for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
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the lost & the rescued - the hurting & the healed
Date:May 3, 2013
Quality:
5
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Value:
5
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Meets Expectations:
5
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I thoroughly enjoy Candace Calvert's books and requested to be on her short list of reviewers. So here we are with the second in the Grace Medical Series with "Rescue Team." The main characters Wes and Kate are thrust upon each other because their employment puts them directly in each others path. Wes is a search and rescue team leader and Kate is an emergency room supervisor. When Wes finds the lost and hurt, they are brought to Kate's ER.
Wes was lost as a child and doesn't want others to endure his traumatic experience or at least he wants to rescue the lost so they don't hurt as much. But he is still trying to come to terms with his own childhood experience. Kate has been running from hospital to hospital in short-term positions because she is actually running from life. Her past makes her run because she is hurting and she is lost and she believes she has done something no one will forgive. But Kate wants to make it perfectly clear to Wes that she doesn't need rescuing.
While the story is about the lost and the rescued and the hurting and the healed, it is also about forgiveness. The healing power of God's forgiveness for us and the healing power of our being able to forgive others. But this is a story of drama, too. Drama in the ER. Hospital drama with insurance liability and PR concerns. Drama in the field searching for the lost. Drama in family relationships. And it is a story of tenderness. The tenderness of being forgiven. The tenderness of a baby's touch. The tenderness of a gentle kiss.
DISCLOSURE: I was provided a complimentary copy of Rescue Team by the author, Candace Calvert, in exchange for my honest review. Opinions expressed are solely my own.
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Review 3 for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
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Date:May 2, 2013
Julie Graves
Location:Oklahoma
Age:45-54
Gender:female
Kate Callison, head nurse at Austin’s Grace Hospital has her work cut out for her. Stepping into the shoes of the former beloved head nurse that has gone missing has Kate scrambling to gain the trust of her staff. It seems to be an uphill battle; with scandal around every corner she turns it doesn’t seem that Kate will be at Grace Hospital for very long.
Wes Tanner is a part of the volunteer rescue team in the community. When he and Kate meet sparks fly between them. He thinks of her as a prickly cactus and she lets him know under no uncertain terms that she has no need to be rescued.
When a young mother gives birth on the restroom floor in the ER and leaves her baby behind Kate and Wes are each reminded of events in their lives that they would both rather forget. Wes was abandoned by his mother when he was a young boy. He doesn’t understand how a mother could do such a thing. Kate has a secret in her life which keeps her running from her past and keeps her from becoming close to anyone, including God. When a fledgling relationship between Wes and Kate develops their pasts may prevent them from ever exploring what they could have.
Rescue Team was a great story of God’s ultimate forgiveness and peace. I liked the main characters of Kate and Wes, but I also enjoyed some of the secondary characters like Kate’s friend Lauren and Wes’s friend Gabe. Both of them are honest and truthful and full of humor. I liked how the characters were true to life and portrayed so that the reader could feel a connection to them. A very good read and I am looking forward to reading other books in the Grace Medical series.
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Review 4 for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
Overall Rating:
Review from a Man's Perspective
Date:April 20, 2013
Quality:
5
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Value:
5
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Meets Expectations:
5
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Ok,so I will admit that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Of course, I will also admit that I've done that to all of the books by Candace Calvert. So please, don't take my "Man Card" away just yet.
Kate Callison has spent her life running, now all she wants to do is take over as permanent ER Director as Austin Grace Hospital. The hospital is under a PR nightmare with the recent disappearance of their ER Director, a couple of deaths attributed to long wait times and an anonymous blogger keeping all of this fresh in the media. Wes Tanner runs a local search and rescue team on the side. A couple of rescues brings him into contact with Kate and feelings between them begin to grow. Kate isn't sure she wants to open up to Wes with all her baggage, but her feelings keep getting in the way. Now there's a missing baby and everyone is on the lookout. Kate runs away to clear her head when things with Wes take a wrong turn. What is so bad in her past that she can't overcome? Will Wes let her run without chasing? Is the baby ever found? Yes, you're right, GO BUY THE BOOK!
Is this a "guy's book"? I will be honest and say that this is not your regular guy's book. The theme is romance, redemption and a lot of talk about feelings. I will also say, though, that I enjoyed this book. The character of Wes has such a strong faith and belief system, but even he has an "AHA!" moment in the book that most men need to read about so that they can get their own "AHA!" moment.
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Review 5 for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
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Date:February 25, 2013
In Rescue Team Candace Calvert writes a story of hope and forgiveness. Kate Callison struggles with forgiving herself for abandoning her baby and Wes Tanner struggles to forgive his mother for abandoning him as a kid. Wes and Kate like each other, but Kate knows it can never work out between them because she did the unforgiving thing, or can it?
Kate‘s relationship with her father is not good. When her mother died he was not there for Kate. He was a drunk and she ran away from home. Now her father has changed and found God, and is trying to get back into Kate’s life. But can Kate forgive him? And can Kate ever tell him that she gave away his grandson?
Secondary characters make the story more interesting. There’s a young woman with a baby she didn’t want, a nice hospital volunteer with a secret of her own, an elderly lady who thinks her doll is a real person, the hospital’s attorney, Kate’s friend Lauren, and as usual there an injured animal in the story.
Like Candace Calvert’s other books this is story with romance, suspense, and lovely characters. Fans of Calvert’s books don’t want to miss this one!
*Thanks to the publisher for providing me with a review copy through NetGalley.*
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Review 6 for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
Overall Rating:
A story of hope
Date:February 18, 2013
Quality:
5
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Value:
5
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Meets Expectations:
5
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I think the best word to describe this book is Hope. It's a medical drama with all kinds of twists and turns, but it's also the story of Kate and Wes' personal journeys to forgiveness. Kate has something in her past she feels she can never forgive herself for, or be forgiven by God. It's made her closed and guarded. Wes' past drives him to rescue, to reach out to try to find those lost like he was once and have them feel safe again. How these two pasts will be reconciled is not an easy answer, and the author does a fantastic job of coming to that place.
I thoroughly enjoy Candace Calvert's books. This is number 2 in the Grace Medical Series but you could read it as a stand alone without any trouble. I can't wait to see what's next, but it will be a wait because the next book isn't due out until 2014.
I received this ebook from Tyndale House Publishers for the purpose of an honest review. My opinion is my own. Thank you Tyndale House Publishers.
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Review 7 for Rescue Team, Grace Medical Series #2
Overall Rating:
Rescue of the Heart
Date:February 18, 2013
Michelle Renee Woods
Location:Kansas City, KS
Age:35-44
Gender:female
Quality:
5
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Value:
5
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Meets Expectations:
5
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Life in the E.R. is never dull. As the interim emergency department director, Kate Callison uses logic to tackle the minute by minute decisions and leaves her emotions bolted behind a door long ago closed.
Wes Tanner is a search and rescue volunteer who made his first rescue as a child.
Their paths cross in the tragic event when a newborn baby is found abandoned on the bathroom floor of the hospital. Wes enters Kate’s life and the locked door of her emotions falter. Her own dark history prevents her from having any real relationships. Yet, Wes keeps drawing her attention, caring for her in a way that almost seems foreign. There is an undeniable attraction, but when the truth comes out…
The plea for help from a young mother brings the pain to light that both Wes and Kate haven’t dealt with in their own pasts. Kate struggles with the fears of being unlovable and unforgiveable in God’s eyes. Wes does his best to live for God, yet like every human he isn’t perfect and stumbles.
This book is about love. Love between a mother and her child, a father and his child, the healthy and the sick, a man and a woman, and God’s unfathomable love and grace for all of us.
I enjoyed the romance, felt their pain, saw the healing start to take place and was moved.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a copy of this book free from Tyndale as part of their Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
Wes Tanner is a search and rescue volunteer who made his first rescue as a child.
Their paths cross in the tragic event when a newborn baby is found abandoned on the bathroom floor of the hospital. Wes enters Kate’s life and the locked door of her emotions falter. Her own dark history prevents her from having any real relationships. Yet, Wes keeps drawing her attention, caring for her in a way that almost seems foreign. There is an undeniable attraction, but when the truth comes out…
The plea for help from a young mother brings the pain to light that both Wes and Kate haven’t dealt with in their own pasts. Kate struggles with the fears of being unlovable and unforgiveable in God’s eyes. Wes does his best to live for God, yet like every human he isn’t perfect and stumbles.
This book is about love. Love between a mother and her child, a father and his child, the healthy and the sick, a man and a woman, and God’s unfathomable love and grace for all of us.
I enjoyed the romance, felt their pain, saw the healing start to take place and was moved.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a copy of this book free from Tyndale as part of their Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
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