4.5 Stars rounded up to 5 Stars for the Audible book
I think I first read the online story over 10 yrs ago and later the print version. So I've re-read it multiple times. This is the first time reading the audible book.
It is narrated by Coleen Marlo. She does a very good job. What I liked is that she subtlety makes the two MC's voices different enough to tell them apart but not so different that they almost sound like caricatures. I think the impulse would be to make Saxo's voice very deep. My only complaint, was that sometimes when she said Sax, it sounded like Sex. Could be my audio.
This is a Xena Uberish book. You've got Saxon Sinclair, head trauma surgeon, brilliant and best at everything she does, tall, dark and beautiful and nobody messes with her. Then there is Jude Castle, a director of documentaries, redhead, beautiful, and brilliant in her own right and for a change of pace, she is of similar height to Saxon. Jude comes to film a year in the life of Saxon's new Trauma Fellow, Deborah Stein (also beautiful, brilliant and an Olympic basketball player). I did learn that a Fellow is already MD and in this case a qualified surgeon, but she wanted to learn from Saxon. In spite of my snarkiness, I still enjoy the story and the MC's and also the supporting characters. Jude's camerawoman, Melissa is a character and good foil to Jude.
Yeah, I know. You are probably thinking "Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. I've read this all before - yet another Radclyffe medical romance." and you are right and it has all the tropes. The difference is that Radclyffe was probably one of the first to do it well and continues to do so. It was also her first medical romance. It may had been the first Radclyffe that I read. In the past I would have given it 5+ stars. If I read it for the first time today, I'd probably give it a 4.0 stars. But for today's re-read, 4.5 - 5 stars for this audiobook.
Try it, if you haven't.