The Fifth Surgeon - bookrastinating.com

English language

Published July 21, 2021 by Ylva Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-3-96324-545-9

Nadia Keating has barely started her cardiothoracic fellowship training, but she already has the archetype nailed—she’s direct, uncompromising, and suffering from a God complex.

Before she can focus on her impressive research, deeply closeted Nadia has a personal project: getting her inconvenient attraction to women out of her system. She picks a stranger online for a one-night stand.

Ashley Rylan, the chief of Nadia’s department, is her polar opposite—sweet, agreeable, and soft-spoken—and the stranger Nadia unwittingly chooses.

The two women’s meeting is a hostile disaster and they would love nothing more than to never see each other again. However, their paths keep colliding as Nadia embarks on an ambitious experiment that could lead to a historic medical breakthrough.

Despite warring egos and the secrets they keep, their connection is powerful and growing. Maybe having sex would help them get over their distraction at work? Or would …

Nadia Keating has barely started her cardiothoracic fellowship training, but she already has the archetype nailed—she’s direct, uncompromising, and suffering from a God complex.

Before she can focus on her impressive research, deeply closeted Nadia has a personal project: getting her inconvenient attraction to women out of her system. She picks a stranger online for a one-night stand.

Ashley Rylan, the chief of Nadia’s department, is her polar opposite—sweet, agreeable, and soft-spoken—and the stranger Nadia unwittingly chooses.

The two women’s meeting is a hostile disaster and they would love nothing more than to never see each other again. However, their paths keep colliding as Nadia embarks on an ambitious experiment that could lead to a historic medical breakthrough.

Despite warring egos and the secrets they keep, their connection is powerful and growing. Maybe having sex would help them get over their distraction at work? Or would that just ruin everything?

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Review of 'The Fifth Surgeon' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Nadezhda. Oh, Nadezhda, why am I such a sucker for smart, no-nonsense, emotionally repressed women? sigh
And, Ashley, you little nerd-nugget made of molten gold, of course you would fall for the ice-queen surgeon savant…

The Fifth Surgeon is a medical romance with a capital “M.” The story takes place almost exclusively inside a hospital, with three main surgeon characters who love to show off their knowledge by quoting medical giants as witty banter. Most of this information was delivered subtly, but there were a few too many instances of these lectures/presentations to other staff or children, making it feel more like an info dump that could have been scaled back a bit.

Overall, the setting and the characters had the right combination of intrigue, intellect, and personality for a satisfying open-animosity-to-lovers story, but you’ll need to wait until the epilogue to learn the identity of the titular “fifth …

Nadezhda. Oh, Nadezhda, why am I such a sucker for smart, no-nonsense, emotionally repressed women? sigh
And, Ashley, you little nerd-nugget made of molten gold, of course you would fall for the ice-queen surgeon savant…

The Fifth Surgeon is a medical romance with a capital “M.” The story takes place almost exclusively inside a hospital, with three main surgeon characters who love to show off their knowledge by quoting medical giants as witty banter. Most of this information was delivered subtly, but there were a few too many instances of these lectures/presentations to other staff or children, making it feel more like an info dump that could have been scaled back a bit.

Overall, the setting and the characters had the right combination of intrigue, intellect, and personality for a satisfying open-animosity-to-lovers story, but you’ll need to wait until the epilogue to learn the identity of the titular “fifth surgeon.”

4.25 stars