The Dhow House

I really struggled with this one.   Rebecca Laurelson is an English Doctor  serving at an East African field hospital. where there is conflict from Islamist terrorists.   When Rebecca is forced to leave this post for reasons that are not made clear, but lead the reader to believe are relevant to the......more

The Dhow House was more 3.5 stars overall rounded up to 4 stars due to the descriptive writing and the research on birds. There were aspects of this story that I absolutely loved, including many of the descriptions of the settings. The Dhow House itself was beautifully depicted. Much of the writing......more

This was a very descriptive read when it came to the setting and the natural habitat of wildlife. One of the main characters, or the main character, Rebecca, is soon to sit for her bird watching guide exam so there is an over abundance of descriptions about all types of birds. Unfortunately, the sto......more

This could have been so much better. The premise is intriguing - a British surgeon travels to an unnamed East African country to treat both sides of an ongoing ethnic and religious conflict. She is pulled out of her post (We don't know why until the end) and ends up spending two months on the coast......more

This one just didn’t quite work for me. The premise is certainly an interesting and topical one, but I never managed to engage with any of the characters, especially not with the main protagonist, an English doctor Rebecca Laurelson, who goes to visit her aunt and family in Tanzania after being forc......more