My 64th read of the year was Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz. This was another one I read on holiday (I did lots of reading on holiday, if all these reading updates didn’t make that clear).
An attempt at summarising
Hazel Sinnet doesn’t dream of being a lady, married and with children, she dreams of becoming a surgeon but in 18th Century Edinburgh, this is an impossible dream for a women. That is, until she manages to sneak into anatomy lectures and impresses the tutor enough that, once her gender is discovered, he takes her up on the challenge: if Hazel can pass the exams (without being allowed to attend lectures), he will take her on as an apprentice.
This brings her into the sphere of one of the resurrection men, Jack, one of the many men part of a secret underground trade of body snatchers. With the return of the deadly roman fever and mysterious happenings at the graveyard’s where Jack finds his bodies, Hazel and Jack find themselves drawn together to solve what is plaguing the poor of Edinburgh.
My thoughts
I enjoyed this story, the beginning was definitely a little slower than I typically like but it was gothic, a little gorey, had a cute romance and the twist at the end was really well done. I did kind of see who was responsible for the issues coming but I definitely didn’t see the ‘how’ coming, which was a great reveal at the end. I will definitely be reading the next one, which I was lucky to be gifted on my birthday recently!
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Antonia Bernardin 
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