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bookellys's review

dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Primum non nocere - First do no harm

This is one of the things doctors swear to as part of the hippocratic oath. Dr. Anna Jones is given the choice: kill a patient or we kill your son - what would you do?

This book has taken me a while to get through, I was supposed to read it as part of a Tandem Collective readalong but then life got in the way and in all honesty, there are ZERO characters in this book that I actually liked so there was nothing really compelling me to read it as I wasn’t that bothered what happened to them.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s suspense and a few twists and turns that make the story line a bit more interesting but the three main characters whose perspectives the book is written from had no qualities that made me care about them:

Dr. Jones - seemingly a robot devoid of most human emotions except when it comes to her son. Unnecessary addition of a hair pulling impulse
Margot - a thief and a liar that thinks she’s better than the very people she goes to for help
DCI Connerty - her son got kidnapped from a beach because she fell asleep and wasn’t watching him (but apparently it wasn’t her fault???)

The premise is interesting but in my opinion the ‘will she / won’t she’ that the book is marketed on was over too soon with far too much of the book then based on the underground crime world.

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michelles_book_nook's review

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

⚠️ TW: death, self harm, abduction, murder, drug use ⚠️ Wow this book is such a page turner! This book follows Anna, a cardiothoracic surgeon, whose son has been abducted by a criminal gang and she must kill one of her patients if she ever wants to get him back. But just when she thinks everything is going her way everything spirals. She knows she must get away with murder or she'll never see her son again. This was such an amazing psychological thriller! It's so chilling and had me on the edge of my seat the whole way through and I just could not put it down. This was a highly anticipated read for me and it certainly didn't disappoint. I loved how it made you question your own morals and whether you would choose to kill someone to save a loved one. And I loved the different pov's and the time stamps in each chapter which made it feel perfectly paced. Overall, I cannot recommend this read highly enough!

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