Quick Take
- Narration: Wesleigh Siobhan is also listed as narrator-producer, and her voice carries the romance’s emotional temperature well; the brisk pacing suits the novella’s compressed timeline.
- Themes: Workplace tension and forbidden attraction, second-chance recognition, professional competence as its own form of desire
- Mood: Warm and quickly flirtatious, with enough tension to keep the short runtime moving
- Verdict: A well-executed African American romance novella that delivers on its premise within a tight runtime, though listeners wanting extended development will reach the end before they are ready.
I pressed play on Remedy: Love in Scrubs during my lunch break one Thursday, expecting to listen for twenty minutes and save the rest. I finished it the same evening. At just over three hours, Shay Davis’s medical romance novella is the kind of story that does not ask you to rearrange your schedule. It asks only for your full attention while it runs, and in the right frame of mind, that is not a difficult thing to give.
The setup is immediate: Dr. Aries Yerba is a self-assured orthopedic surgeon facing a malpractice lawsuit that he is convinced is baseless, because his record is perfect and he knows it. Attorney Skylar Wise is assigned to defend him, despite not particularly liking him. She also has a history with him that he does not know about, which is not precisely a second-chance romance but something adjacent to one. The legal framing is a smart device: it gives two strong-willed professionals a reason to spend extended time together that neither would choose voluntarily, and the late nights and long weekends of case preparation become the container in which attraction grows.
What Shay Davis Does Well in a Short Window
Davis is economical. At novella length, every scene needs to do more than one thing, and the best sections of Remedy accomplish exactly that: the first deposition scene establishes Aries’s confidence and arrogance while simultaneously showing Skylar’s competence at managing him. The high-school history, Skylar noticed Aries before he had any reason to notice her, is introduced efficiently and used well, giving the attraction an asymmetry that adds texture without requiring a full backstory chapter to explain.
Reviewer Ruby D. Page noted that “Aries met his match with Skylar” and specifically praised how an alpha male character was written to yield some control in the relationship. This is worth noting because it is the kind of character arc that is easy to gesture at and harder to actually execute in limited pages. Davis earns it. The moments where Aries adjusts his assumptions about Skylar are small but credible, and Wesleigh Siobhan’s narration plays those beats with appropriate weight.
Wesleigh Siobhan’s Performance and the Novella Format
Siobhan narrates and produced this audiobook, which gives the performance a particular coherence. She knows this material from the inside, and it shows. Her handling of Skylar’s voice, professional composure with genuine feeling underneath, is the stronger of the two primary registers. Aries’s confidence occasionally tips slightly cartoonish in the opening sections, though this resolves as his character softens. The secondary characters Marcus and Angela, mentioned briefly in the reviews, pass through quickly enough that Siobhan does not have to build them fully, which is the right call for a three-hour runtime.
Reviewer NickNick described it as “cute story, not too dramatic, no cheating,” which is an accurate summary of the tone Davis maintains throughout. The book does not manufacture conflict through misunderstanding or betrayal; it generates tension through the natural friction of two highly competent people who dislike each other and then slowly do not. That is a cleaner setup than many longer romances manage, and at novella length it works without feeling compressed.
The Ending Problem
Reviewer ChaptersofRenada said it plainly: “it just ended,” with no epilogue and no follow-up. This is the main complaint about Remedy, and it is legitimate. The climax of the romance is present; the denouement is not. Davis makes the choice, increasingly common in contemporary serialized romance, to end at the emotional peak rather than after it, trusting that the moment of resolution is more satisfying than its aftermath. Not every reader agrees, and in a three-hour audiobook where listener investment builds quickly, the abruptness is noticeable.
Whether this is a flaw or a feature depends on what you want from the format. If you want the satisfaction of watching the relationship settle into something stable, Remedy leaves that work to the imagination. If you find the moment of resolution the most emotionally charged and are content with the implication of what comes next, the ending works.
Who Should Listen and Who Should Skip
Listen if you enjoy African American contemporary romance novellas and want a story that focuses on two professionally capable leads who earn their connection through shared work rather than manufactured circumstance. Listen if you want something that respects your time and delivers a complete emotional arc in an afternoon. Skip if you need extended courtship and developed secondary storylines; three hours does not allow for them. Skip if abrupt endings consistently frustrate you, because this one does not linger.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Remedy a standalone novella, or is it part of a series with follow-up books about Marcus and Angela?
The audiobook is listed as a standalone, though reviewers mention secondary characters Marcus and Angela in ways that suggest potential for continuation. At the time of this review, no confirmed sequel has been announced, but the setup leaves room for one.
Does the malpractice lawsuit storyline get resolved within the audiobook, or does the legal case remain open at the end?
The legal case reaches a conclusion within the audiobook’s runtime. It is a narrative device to bring the protagonists together rather than the central focus of the story, and it resolves appropriately before the romantic conclusion.
How is the chemistry between Aries and Skylar handled in the narration, given that it is a single narrator?
Wesleigh Siobhan differentiates the characters through vocal tone and pacing rather than dramatically different character voices. Her narration suits the intimate, third-person-close format Davis uses, and the chemistry reads more through the writing and Siobhan’s emotional delivery than through theatrical voice distinction.
Is Remedy appropriate for listeners who prefer their romance without explicit content?
The audiobook includes intimate scenes that are moderate in explicitness, in keeping with the contemporary romance novella genre. It is not an explicit erotic novel, but it is also not a clean romance. Listeners sensitive to sexual content should be aware of this before starting.
