I love Radclyffe's books. I feel like they were my entry into the lesfic world and they feel warm and cosy.

This book was a little different for me though, in that I didn't feel like it offered a lot extra. A fair chunk of the book was bits and bobs from others in the series. Declan and Zoe's characters had real potential but they weren't really developed in any significant way, nor was their relationship.

Overall an ok quick read.

Radclyffe is the queen of lesbian romance for a reason - and this book is no exception.

I'm not someone who traditionally reads romance, so I can't compare this book to other romance novels. For me, when I do read romance, the relationship is the point - not necessarily the plot around the relationship. I don't want boring or tedious, but I picked up the book for the romance/flirting/seduction/etc. Unrivaled delivers with a fast, interesting plot - fans of medical dramas, if you miss Callie and Arizona, this one is for you. You definitely won't find yourself skipping past pages to get to the "good stuff" - the book is plenty interesting, aside from the sexy stuff.

A highlight of Radclyffe's writing in general is that she really gets what it means to *be* queer - like yes, if a person identifies as queer, it really is totally normal for a big part of their social circle to also be queer. The main characters in Unrivaled are not the random one-off queer folks in the group. I think this makes Radclyffe's stories that much more realistic.

This book can technically be read as a standalone, but I think it helps to explain the other characters and their motivations if you've read other books in the PMC Hospital romance series.

As for the sexy stuff .... you will not be disappointed. Listen, I'm not here for anything super graphic, but when I do pick up a romance, I'm not looking for euphemisms galore, you know what I mean? Like don't describe a flower to me. You don't have to worry about that with Unrivaled. Definitely hot, definitely realistic, definitely worth it. I highly recommend this one.

Thanks so much to NetGalley, the author, and Bold Strokes books for access to this title in exchange for my honest review.

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I enjoyed this book more than some of the earlier books in A PMC Hospital Romance series. Honor and Quinn's story in Fated Love (Book 1) is still unmatched, of course, but this one isn't too far off. For some reason, I took a liking to Zoey in Passionate Rivals (Book 4) who was best friends with benefits with its main character, Emmett before Emmett found true love with Syd. But Zoey was sidelined when Syd came into the picture and we didn't get much of her, so I like that Zoey is at the centre now and I was rooting for her happy ending. I love how Zoey and Declan notices each other from the first time they laid eyes on each other and I could just feel the chemistry between them.

While Declan is new to us, readers, she isn't just PMC's newest Attending. She's also Honor's old friend and she has her own story to tell, one that appears almost similar to Honor's own history but I wish she could have opened up to Zoey a lot sooner so that they could work their way towards a solid relationship.

Of all the five books in this series, I think this one is my second favourite.

*4.5 stars*

A heart-felt romance….

I love this author’s FF reads and this one was another great addition. While good m/m romances seem to be easier to find I struggle to find a steamy yet well written f/f but this author always delivers. With Zoey and Dec’s story there is another to add to that growing list…

If you have read this series than getting a chance to catch up with already loved characters was an extra bonus as Zoey and Dec met and fell in love. It wasn’t as easy as that, of course. Each had their own baggage brought to the table and all of it was slowly revealed as they opened up to each other. Both doctors, they had a much different path that led them to today and some, if not all, was going to put stumbling blocks in their relationship.

With an emphasis on healing and their careers it was easy to get immersed in the intricacies and drama of the ER and trauma that followed. When tragedy struck close to home, that amped up the emotion even more. The romance may have taken the passenger seat at times, that didn’t take away from the heated steam when it happened or the love that percolated along throughout.

Loved it!

Any book from Rad is amazing especially from the series.
Since I did not read the series for a while, the characters and their dilemmas took time coming back to me, but the new characters are wonderful.
Their personal suffering and issues and what they had to go through to get where they are....I love it all.
I absolutely love the Hospital setting. There is something to be said about the small community. I really hope there is more from the series, because as any reader - I am totally invested.

Well this was a nice sweet read of life and love after life goes wrong. I liked the characters and how they interacted. It was believable and interesting. I like the way they helped each other. I must admit some of the medical stuff went over my head but it didn't take away any enjoyment from the book.

I love all books by this author, can highly recommend. Just wonderful. The main characters are well developed and its so well written you feel personally involved in the journey.

Not my favorite from Radclyffe, but you could read so much worse lesfic. Don't think I was smart enough to handle all the medical terminology, but it didn't take away from my enjoyment.

I really liked this book and the main characters. There were things that bothered me but not enough to detract from reading

Thé medical terminology. I kind of glossed over these parts and honestly the drama of the medical scenes outweighed it anyway
The month gap in the middle - I had to read back to check if I’d missed something
The abrupt end. I think after the build up this could have been stretched out a bit more

Àll in all I liked the book. It was a quick easy read

I received this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review from BoldStrokes Books and NetGalley.

One thing I love about Radclyffe is how reliable she is as an author. You know that when you pick up one of her books, it will be a good read; they have everything adventure, love angst, a good character arc. This book picks up where the last one left off in the PMC series. The book starts with a bang, there is a multiple-car pileup, and the newfound residents can't find their friend. It turns out one of their friends is fine, and the other, Tony is not.

The book revolves around Zoey and her instantaneously falling in love with Declan Black, who comes back to PMC after some tragedy with her ex-wife. What I found problematic is that neither of these characters has a personality. In the last book, when we met Zoey, she was clingy and mean to Emmet when she started dating Syd. Now she is the complete opposite and more timid and all. "I need to find a partner ASAP." In real life, these two would never last. They are both each other's rebound. Ther entire personality is being a surgeon, and when that gets taken away from Dec, I assume she isn't sure how to handle that. It isn't the worst book I have read; it was just wholly predictable. Once Emmet got a girlfriend and left Zoey behind, she felt the need to get a girlfriend.

What also bothered me is that at the end of the book Declan is very dismissing towards her dead wife, being all she took things to say from me when I wouldn't comply with her; it was honestly the worst climax to a book every, I was expecting so much more from the revelation. It's not like Declan would have married her if she was a completely horrible person. But something doesn't sit right with me about demonizing dead people, even if they are fictional, to make it easier for the main character to move on after their death. It had been two years since the wife died; couldn't that have been enough of a buffer as to why she was ready to date again.

This was not the worst Radclyffe; it has just become predictable and therefore unenjoyable when reading these. I am assuming the next book will be about Dani, and I cannot wait for that; I hope the characters have a lot more chemistry and a better backstory.

Thanks to Netgalley for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This is the first Radclyffe's book I have read and it didn't disappoint. I didn't know about the other PMC backstories and now I have to go back and read about them. I am not into slow burn romances but I felt it was balanced due to the medical storyline. I enjoy anything medical related so this was a fun read.

You can never go wrong with a Radclyffe book. This was a good medical romance that Rad is know for. It was nice to revisit old characters along the way of reading through the angst of Dec and Zoe. Eventually they find their way but the storyline is a bit radical. I recommend.

As always, a good read from Radclyffe. I really enjoyed the medical scenes, in fact, more so than the romantic storyline. The two main characters were both intriguing and well developed, but lacked chemistry. Their instant attraction and the fact that they ended up declaring their love for one another within days of meeting did not really feel believable. However, I found this book an engaging read for the hospital scenes and the storyline about Tony.

Thanks to Netgalley for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review!

So I really wanted to like this book! The premise sounded so good! A hospital romance with LGBTQ representation! While that’s great, unfortunately the characters were not developed enough for me to care about their romance. The plot felt rushed and the steamy scenes, while though good, didn’t mean a lot as I felt the characters lacked depth.. I unfortunately DNF around 70 percent. Not for me.

Thanks to netgalley
Bold Strokes Books, Inc.
Bold Strokes Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts and opinions.

A sweet and steamy romance. The characters are ok, not my favorite in this series of books. I just couldn't connect with them as well as other books.

3.5 stars. I thought this was a good read with smooth writing and lovely characters. While this is only my second Radclyffe read, Fated Love was my very first lesfic read back in 2018, and it was lovely getting to spend time with Honor and Quinn again.

Declan Black is back at PMC after many years away, and she’s still healing from the circumstances surrounding her wife’s death. She’s gentle and calm with both her patients and her coworkers, she always knows the right things to say, and I just adored the hell out of her. Fourth-year surgical resident Zoey Cohen is a master at hiding her insecurities and hesitates to open up her heart. I didn’t think her personality shone through as much as Dec’s, but I found her admirably ambitious and generally likable. I liked the depth of connection Zoey and Dec shared, and I felt the magnetic pull between them. I did find their relationship heavy on the insta-love though, which didn’t quite work for me.

Dec and Zoey aren’t the only POV characters — we also get POVs from Honor and Quinn (two other PMC employees who are in an established relationship), causing this to read like a romance-heavy ensemble cast medical drama rather than a straight-up romance. I liked this aspect as I enjoyed getting an update on the pairing from my very first lesfic, but I’m not sure I would recommend this book to those looking for a more conventional romance storyline, especially not without having first read Fated Love (or another PMC Hospital Romance). There’s also quite a bit of POV-switching within scenes, which didn’t feel omniscient. I hesitate to condemn this as head-hopping, because Radclyffe has been in the business a long time and obviously knows what she’s doing, but I’m not sure if this POV-switching worked for my personal reading tastes.

Since it’s set in a hospital, this book heavily features difficult medical scenarios. I don’t think all the medical stuff took away from the romance at all, though — rather, I thought each medical scene helped to give depth to the characters. I especially loved when Dec and Zoey bonded over the complicated relationship they sometimes have with their profession:, reassuring each other that it’s okay to feel simultaneously elated by your work and devastated for your patients and their families.

My main complaint about this book is the conflict. I understand why it happened, but it was so sudden and it wasn’t clear to me what was happening. I found myself thinking: “Wait is this the 80% conflict? Is that what’s going on?” There was also an awkward month-long time jump mid-conflict, whereas everything else in the book happened within…a little more than a week, I think?

Overall, I liked the characters in this book as well as the polished feel of the writing, so maybe this is a sign I need to read more Radclyffe!

Radclyffe's Quinn and Honor from Fated Love are one of lesfic's most popular couples, and we see quite a bit of them in this installment of the PMC series. Unrivaled can be read as a standalone, but the characters and backstories would be much clearer by reading the series, as least books One and Four. This is a slow burn slight age age romance featuring Declan and Zoey, both main characters bringing big issues to their relationship. Radclyffe is a master at divulging backstories without using the dreaded info dump, and I found myself inhaling every crumb of especially Declan's story. However, there is almost TOO much medical storyline for me here. I found myself skipping paragraphs of the most graphic scenes, and I would've liked a few chapters at the end after they committed to each other to see how they enjoyed their life together. But it's always a good decision to read a Radclyffe story.

The first pages of Unrivaled will hook you with its pace and excitement. A major traffic accident involving multiple vehicles sends a flurry of ambulances to the PMC emergency center. Life and death decisions are being made as the emergency and surgical rooms fill up quickly.
Declan Black is returning to PMC hospital after ten years. She would like to keep a low profile however gossip swirls around the hospital as to why she left and why she has returned.
Fourth year surgery resident Zoey Cohen has aways kept her emotions hidden behind her veil of calm and control to mitigate personal loss and disappointment. Zoey finds herself intrigued with Declan and is willing to let her guard down as they work together.
Radclyffe brings the reader into the adrenaline rush of emergency response medical care. She is a master at this genre. Combine this with a quick pace romance and you have a book you just cannot put down.
Although Unrivaled is book five in the popular PMC Hospital series it can easily be read as a stand alone novel.

Radclyffe’s books don’t need much fanfare but I have to shout out for this one - her series are great and I really enjoyed this one. Back in the PMC Hospital we get so spend time with Quinn, Honor and the crew of Residents and this time Zoey falls under the spotlight. As always the medical drama’s unfold in unending sequence while the character’s lives squeeze in around their work. The MC’s are both sweeties who you want to see happy, both with past trauma to get over, both too scared to let themselves hope. Thoroughly enjoyable reading.. I might have to start the series all over again

I really like the PMC series of books by Radclyffe, the community of lesbians that work in the hospital sound so welcoming and lovely that its a joy to hang out with them all. The latest in the series doesn't disappoint, the formula of a meeting, sparks flying and then some hesitation is there. This time the two characters are battling demons from their past Declan is recovering from a horrid car accident that killed her wife, Zoey is recovering from a childhood where she was abandoned. They meet across a dying patient in the midst of a major trauma and remain drawn to each other, gently getting to know each other whilst working on the patient's case. Radclyffe is an excellent storyteller and her character development is wonderful as is her medical knowledge which makes this an entertaining and gripping read.

With thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.