Hello Stranger by Jade West

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

When your eyes land on a complete stranger on the train, and the world around you stops. When the stranger says hello, and your heart stops, too. When the universe answers your prayers and he’s there, next day, on the train. A man so powerful–brooding with darkness and secrets.

I knew there was going to be more. I wanted more. When the stranger is reading one of your favorite novels, and you’re reading one of his. When you’re in such a flutter that you drop your treasured bookmark, and the stranger returns it next day. When you think the universe can’t be any kinder, but it truly delivers the jackpot of all jackpots and two opposite worlds collide, as though it was meant to be. Only it could never be so easy, could it?

Goodbye stranger . . . Hello, Dr Hall. 

Hello Stranger

Strangers on a train

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😠😚😁
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Logan – he is a surgeon and takes the train to work every day and has been traveling that way for nine years straight. He never said a word to any of the other passengers, thought one day he finds himself interested in one of the other passengers he sees every day. He can’t seem to look away from the young woman. When she leaves her battered bookmark behind, he grabs it and finds out her name is Chloe.

The heroine: Chloe – she was on her way to work for her first day of work at Harrow District Hospital in the Kingsley ward. She took the first train to work that got her there without too many stops. She is a trainee nurse in patient rehabilitation. She wanted to help people who really need it and has wanted to be a nurse since she was a child.

The story: On the return trip home, Chloe notices her precious leather bookmark is missing, she got it from her grannie and treasured it. She gets home to her boyfriend Liam who is laying on the couch gaming and has no interest in what went on during her first day of work. When she tells him anyway, he is more annoyed that she interrupted his game.

The next day Chloe gets on the same train as the previous morning. The handsome man who sits next to her gives her the bookmark that she was missing. They talk about books and both of them want to know more about each other but don’t ask. They see each other every morning on the train and each yearns to know more. Then at work, Chloe is put on a new assignment in palliative care and meets the doctor in charge, Dr. Hall (Logan).

Chloe is a breathe of fresh air with a sunny disposition and has always wanted to work in palliative care since her uncle died and the doctors and nurses who treated him at the end of his life were so nice. Not everyone can work in that area since it is so hard to be around terminal patients all the time. But Chloe is perfect for the job and Logan is impressed with her immediately.

This story is very different than any I have read before from Jade West. Logan is broody and quiet, but is a very good man who is also dealing with a dying mother at home as well as treating terminal patients on a daily basis. Chloe is a strong character and leaves her boyfriend when it becomes obvious he will never change and be the man she hoped he would one day become.

This story was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Dan Calley and Ashford MacNab. Both of these narrators were new to me. Dan Calley was ok, he has a decent voice with an English accent though he talked a bit too fast for my liking. Ashford MacNab has a clear feminine voice with an English accent, which wasn’t my favorite but wasn’t annoying either.

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