Major Surgery

By: Lola Keeley

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's Summary

An enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance about sexy, smart doctors cutting to the heart of what matters.

Skilled surgeon Veronica Mallick runs her London hospital department like she runs her surgeries: with hawkish efficiency. Then her perfect world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new Head of Trauma.

Cassie Taylor is a brash, no-nonsense army surgeon, fresh from the front lines, and trying to find her way in civilian life. She's all action and sharp edges, not too interested in rules. She's even less interested in bureaucracy, or playing nice with her uptight, paper-pushing colleague, Veronica.

While they're circling each other warily at St. Sophia's hospital, Cassie becomes entangled in some shady financial dealings. Their shared search for the truth draws them closer together, sparking heated moments as they try to see justice done. But in exposing a scandal, can they also find some common ground? How will they both deal with being attracted to a woman they don't even like?

©2019 Lola Keeley (P)2019 Tantor

For this Genre this is a very English book

Not saying it was not a great book, it was, just it took sometimes to get used to the flow of the book. Loved the characters, loved the plot, would have liked to hear about the relationship with the son for example. Some things went missing.... but all in all it was a good book
Narration was fitting.

Sweet story

Great story - have listened several times. It’s an entertaining story with great female characters.
I liked the narration too

narrator put me off

story was good but the narration was terrible. found it hard to finish .

Good story badly spoiled by the narration

The strong point of this story is its excellent plot. However it is let down by some of the writing and the obviously inexperienced narrator, whose pacing is difficult at times. She also uses a very unconvincing, strange sounding and out of place upper-class English accent for significant parts of the audiobook.

The bad and out of place, posh, upper-class accent is totally cringe-worthy and oddly changes to become a more ordinary, middle-class English as the audiobook progresses. This left me to question why the posh accent was used by the narrator at all since it was obviously unnecessary and I was annoyed because it spoiled the audiobook so much.

To the narrator's credit is her portrayal of atmosphere and emotion. Also appreciated are her attempts at a range of regional accents which, despite being unconvincing, are helpful because they differentiate between the various characters.

BTW I found that speeding up the narration made it flow much better and the awful, clipped, upper-class English accent grated less on my ears.

Believable

Often romance novels jump abruptly from hate to love. This book made the transition a smoother ride.