Kelli McCabe, a detective, is shot on the job. She and
her partner, Travis, are both hospitalised. Doctor Nora Whitmore is a
surgeon in the hospital. Nora is a darn good doctor but suffers from extremely
poor social skills. She is stand-offish at work and generally unpopular with
her colleagues. Nora is the attending, so though she is not Kelli’s doctor, she
has a couple of interactions with the laid-up-in-bed cop. Unexpectedly, Nora
finds herself locking horns (verbally) with Kelli and behaving
unprofessionally. However, Nora finds these interactions with Kelli more real
than any other in her life and starts creating time to visit Kelli more often. The
two develop a kind of friendship with oceans of sexual tension running beneath
the flimsy façade.
Swearing, cockiness and bad behaviour are not exactly
endearing qualities in lead character and Kelli was an immediate fail for us on
these counts. Kudos to the voice artiste for getting the smug cockiness in her
voice for Kelli spot-on. We did like Nora right from the start and liked the
voice done for her too. The tones used for Nora were all soft and feminine.
There are way, way too many threads in the story in lives of both, Nora and
Kelli and we’d probably have skipped quite a few bits had we been reading this
one instead of listening to it. Kelli does redeem herself somewhat by being
there for Nora when Nora’s career is threatened, but again, smug cockiness is
her undoing. The attraction and romance are built at a good pace and we really
liked descriptions of Nora’s reactions to Kelli.
This is a fair read (umm, listen), on the whole.
⭐⭐☆
