Watch out, world! Coming in hot from Mindy’s Book Studio is a new medical rom-com: The Love Operation by Melissa R. Collings. Imagine you could access your memories with perfect clarity. That is what drives the main character Dr. Cordelia “Cord” Wren to look into her past and find out how to fix her currently tragic love life.
Dr. Wren is a brilliant spine surgeon who’s gunning for the chief of surgery position at her hospital. She’s ambitious and qualified, and she knows it. But complications start to arise, involving a secret relationship, a love triangle, and some strange side effects from a memory enhancement study.
From romantic to familial love, this medical romance has so many layers wrapped around a strong emotional core. Here are three signs you need to read The Love Operation by Melissa R. Collings!
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Book Overview: The Love Operation
Content warnings: medical procedures, needles, mention of car accident
Summary: Dr. Cordelia Wren has always been in control—of her surgical career, her emotions, and especially her memories. But when she joins a cutting-edge memory enhancement study at her hospital, she gains an unexpected ability: the power to vividly relive any moment from her past. It seems like the perfect opportunity to analyze her failed relationships and finally understand why every man she’s ever loved has walked away.
There’s just one problem. Actually, three:
- She may have…borrowed…access to the highly restricted memory study.
- She’s secretly dating the hospital’s new COO while competing for chief of surgery—a relationship that could destroy both their careers if discovered.
- Her first love has just reappeared in her life, stirring up feelings she thought she’d buried.
As Cordelia dives deeper into her past, the lines between memory and reality begin to blur. The truth she uncovers forces her to question everything she thought she knew about love, ambition, and what it means to be “in control.”
With her career hanging in the balance and her heart pulled in two directions, Cordelia must decide: Should she trust the memories that have shaped her life, or finally let go of the past to embrace an uncertain future?
You Need To Be In Control
Not to call anyone out, but if you like being in control of everything at all times, then you’ll see a lot of yourself in Dr. Wren. As an eldest daughter, Cord tends to be in charge of what happens her family. She’s used to the responsibility, but also the need to control. But when that control starts to slip from her grasp, she doesn’t know how to handle it. Cord must quickly learn how to handle her problems when her life starts spiraling and how to let go of the things she can’t change.
You Relive All Your Worst Moments
If the book fits…read it. Or however that saying goes. If you can remember the worst moments or the lowest points of your life clearly, then step to the front of the room. But don’t worry because Dr. Wren is in the exact same boat. Cord uses her mysterious new recall ability to figure out exactly what she can do to fix her love life. And that means having to remember why all her past relationships ended the way they did, whether it was because of her career or another more painful reason.
You Like To Fix Things (Everything)
As another symptom of being the oldest child, Cord’s default response to anyone’s issues is to fix them. She can easily push her own feelings aside if it means making things right. But she learns the hard way that not everyone around her needs a solution. Sometimes, they just need her presence. They need her attention without jumping into help mode. And in turn, she’s allowed to express her frustrations and cry it out. We’re just glad she was ultimately able to find someone who can be her safe space.
A layered and emotional medical rom-com, The Love Operation by Melissa R. Collings reminds us how to let ourselves simply be, outside of the labels that may define us.
The Love Operation by Melissa R. Collings comes out November 1st, and you can order a copy of it here!
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