published: 2018
pages: 276
read: 3/7-8/19
rating: i liked this book enough to give up sleep.
book: 26 in 2019
Dr. Russell has a bad reputation around our hospital. The scrub techs say he’s cold-blooded, the nurses say he’s too cocky for his own good, and the residents say he’s the best surgeon in the world—really, just a swell guy!—on the off chance he’s within earshot.
I try to avoid him and his temper at all costs. It’s just as easy to admire his sexy, grip-it-while-he’s-ravishing-you hair and chiseled jaw from a healthy distance, preferably from the other end of the hallway…half-hidden behind a plant.
Unfortunately, my plan crumbles when my trusty ol’ boss decides to swap his white coat for a Hawaiian shirt. His retirement leaves me with two terrible options: switch specialties and spend months retraining, or take an open position as Dr. Russell’s surgical assistant.
That means I have to stand near him in the OR for hours on end and anticipate his every need without letting his biting words and bad attitude intimidate me. Oh, and as if that’s not difficult enough, my silly crush on him—the one I’ve tried to stomp on until it disappears—might just be reciprocated.
It’s fine.
I’m fine.
I take my job seriously. There will be no smoldering bedroom eyes across the operating table, no angry almost-kisses in the supply closet. (Well, no more of those.)
What’s the phrase? An apple a day keeps the doctor away?
Maybe I should go for a whole damn bushel.
I try to avoid him and his temper at all costs. It’s just as easy to admire his sexy, grip-it-while-he’s-ravishing-you hair and chiseled jaw from a healthy distance, preferably from the other end of the hallway…half-hidden behind a plant.
Unfortunately, my plan crumbles when my trusty ol’ boss decides to swap his white coat for a Hawaiian shirt. His retirement leaves me with two terrible options: switch specialties and spend months retraining, or take an open position as Dr. Russell’s surgical assistant.
That means I have to stand near him in the OR for hours on end and anticipate his every need without letting his biting words and bad attitude intimidate me. Oh, and as if that’s not difficult enough, my silly crush on him—the one I’ve tried to stomp on until it disappears—might just be reciprocated.
It’s fine.
I’m fine.
I take my job seriously. There will be no smoldering bedroom eyes across the operating table, no angry almost-kisses in the supply closet. (Well, no more of those.)
What’s the phrase? An apple a day keeps the doctor away?
Maybe I should go for a whole damn bushel.
MY THOUGHTS
SHORT VERSION
love RS!
always leaves me completely tired the next day because i do not sleep well because i cannot get enough of her books and i have to finish them in 1 sitting so i dont go to bed until like 2 (or 330 in this case! 🙈)
love RS!
always leaves me completely tired the next day because i do not sleep well because i cannot get enough of her books and i have to finish them in 1 sitting so i dont go to bed until like 2 (or 330 in this case! 🙈)
LONG VERSION
ahh!
since i am part of an amazon prime account, that means that i get to read basically all of her books for free since she is an amazon exclusive author. ....and i somehow just found out. (about the free reads thing!)
i don't know why i decided to read this book as i was going to bed.
I've told myself every single time I've started one of her books "NEVER before bed" but i ignored my own advice and i didn't listen and i paid the price.
i got so into this book that at midnight, i said "okay one more chapter." then at 1 am i said "one more chapter." at 2 i said "okay, 230!" and then at 3 i was like "well, i can always go in late or just pray that tomorrow is one of those days where even though i had no sleep i somehow have energy!"
i stopped at 330 and it was NOT one of those days the next day. i needed a nap to get through my payroll. lol
anyway, yes! i liked this accidental book so much! she has such a good way of taking these hate/love stories and making them funny but romantic in such a fun way that i know i will have a good time when i pick up her books no matter who the characters are.
and this book was no exception.
i loved Bailey & Matt's relationship.
the way it started, the way it developed and the way it ended.
i 100% thought Matt was a huge dick (i remember wanting to make a note of it on goodreads) but he eventually wins you over.
there were a few moments for example like their first surgery together or when she was trying not to cry at the operating table that i thought were a little bit on the non-professional side but other than that, it was a good read.
who doesn't love drunk confessions!?
I'm all about love when i have a good buzz going.
i should note that i am squeamish and cannot stand blood or guts or any of that stuff (which would explain why my whole family is full of RN's with the exception of me) and while not a whole lot of it is mentioned, its still there and i could have done without some of that. but that is solely me....and again, it wasn't even that bad, so yea.
either way, good, quick read.
like all her other books, you'll want to eat it up real quick!
jump over for spoilers!
thanks for reading!
Bailey is a doctor's assistant who needs a new doctor to assist because her doctor is retiring.
Matt needs a new assistant because they all keep quitting on him because he is a hard ass on everyone.
so her doctor sets them up and right off the bat, she is late for their first surgery. everything is running late because of B. and everything that could go wrong just does.
after the surgery, she goes to the bar across the street with coworkers where she meets Cooper. (quick background: her parents passed away in an accident so she's been taking care of her sister and she has not dated in FOREVER!) he's there waiting for a friend, they exchange numbers and continue talking through out buuuuut she totally doesn't feel it.
she goes home, tells her sister about cooper and to cut all the middle out, Josie is the one that's always texting Cooper.
Cooper is Matt's brother. they both know who Bailey is to each other but none tell her. so Cooper thinks he's developing this "relationship" with her. he invites her to a wedding, so Josie agrees on her behalf. in reality, Cooper took her to piss off Matt because he could tell that Bailey meant something to him.
anyway, Bailey fights it but she ends up going to the wedding and bam! Matt is there. she then pieces everything together and she's all OH SHIT!
at the wedding, Matt gets drunk and then has her drive him home. she takes him inside and he tells her about his ex-wife and that he likes her. then he's out.
she can't believe it. she also cant leave because her phone is dead so she cant get an uber.
she finds his charger and ends up passing out to wake up tucked in his bed.
. . . he makes her breakfast, tries to talk to her about it, them, then ends up just taking her home.
a bunch of shit happens.
they end up together. and they spend a lot of time at her house. they're a legit full blown couple.
he gets his grant.
he applied to get money to build a clinic in Costa Rica and he got it. except he never told her; she finds out once everyone is celebrating him at work.
they break up because she can't up and leave her life with Josie for him.
they're broken up for a while. (like 2 weeks)
then they get back together.
two years later, they are in Costa Rica married and pregnant, thriving with the clinic so much that they got an extension for another X amount of years.
and yea.
there's a lot that i left out but read this one! i really liked it!
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