Book Review
Title: Trauma Alert
A first Responders novel
Author: Radclyffe
About the author Radclyffe has published over thirty five romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and writing as L.L Raand a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters.
Onto My Review
Trauma Alert is one of my first books I have read of the famous author Radclyffe. The intriguing love- romantic story takes mostly place in the Emergency Room.
The lead characters are Ali and Beau, to amazingly attractive woman with two different outcomes of relationships. One keeps her heart to herself in part of not getting hurt or feeling like she might loose the other. The other one sitting with a secret where she has made used of never falling for someone and not be able to put any emotion into a relation she has with woman.
Ali is a Surgeon and Beau is fire fighter. Equally strong females with a lack of not giving there hearts that easily. There past keeps them from wanting something everlasting, but it was until these two’s paths constantly got brought together with the jobs they do.
When Ali as tough as a nail met the striking and beautiful cocky and rebellious, drop-dead beautiful Beau Cross, the mutual attraction hits of but so is the mutual annoyance.
When Beau asked Ali out on the first night they met and Ali turned her down, Beau couldn’t find it in herself why she couldn’t get this girl to have only one no strings attached date with her.
Beau’s partner bets her that she won’t be able to get even a date with the beautiful doctor. Beau accepts the bet than later Bobby knows how much the doctor has gotten under her skin.
Beau cockily tells Ali that they won’t have sex until after the sixth date, which is fine with Ali since she has no intention of dating the fire-fighter even once.
Every time Ali saying no which in fact Wynter, Ali’s confidant and also trusting friend and colleague later urges Ali to at least say yes once just for the sake of it.
Ali has a past she never revealed not even to Wynter. Later as the story develops she finally opens up about her sister and her need of never letting anything like that happen to someone she knows. And with Beau being a fire fighter a dare devil who’s constantly puts her life in danger is the one thing that Ali can’t deal with in the start. She has had relationships with woman that always ended up on the wrong side. They were all rebellious in there own nature. The only thing stopping Ali was that her sister died and she has never forgiven herself for being the reason her sister left that night and finding her death was the only thing that kept her from wanting to love someone that much again.
Beau Cross also sits with a deep secret and also her caring nature being protective over her sister and the ones she loves. Her battle of cancer and her having to end her career as a basket ball player.
Both are emotionally wounded characters who are unwilling to open their hearts to anyone, and that’s where the true conflict surfaces.
I can imagine both being in the medical field watching the trauma and horrors they live through each day could cause them not to open up easily. So it’s quite believable that a trauma surgeon and fire fighter would have immense trouble letting each other get close.
The problems may be typical such as incorrect assumptions (Beau thinking Ali called her Captain & Ali seeing Beau with another woman) and failure to communicate that keep the romantic contagonist at odds.
However it’s more effective when it’s understandable why they don’t ask the questions they need to ask and why it’s such a struggle to overcome stubbornness, fear, and hubris, therefore allowing one self to be vulnerable.
So the plot of the story doesn’t give you that instant bliss where the two characters falls in love and they live happily ever after, no it takes you through many twits and turns before it climax towards that. That is what I love about this novel.
It has two strong females, but each one lives with a deep painful secret each character hides, I couldn’t get enough of this book. I’ve read it the first time as the emotions it instilled me was overwhelmed.
The trauma room scenes and when Beau is on the job fighting to save people’s lives was so strongly written that you could feel each emotion and thought she has felt as she was out in the field.
These specific scenes also show you how risky it must be to fall in love with someone who has a job as dangerous as Beau’s.
When reading romance novels the most important things are for the reader is to feel sense of chemistry between the characters, and for the reader to want them to be together. I remember sitting on the edge of my chair as these two characters seems so perfect for each other, the chemistry was perfect.
Ali calls Beau “a walking orgasm”, who can deny blue eyes and blonde stricken woman.
Second the reader would sense how both their characters are meant for each other due to there pain and their similar personalities makes these characters right for each other.
Readers are going to love this series if it’s anything like Trauma Alert. This book is hard to put down and it will sizzle in the reader’s hands. I admit it happened to me over and over couldn’t put this book down.
The characters are hot, the sex scenes explicit and explosive and the book is moved along by an interesting plot with well drawn secondary characters, both of whom resist and fall head over heels.
