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A review by jenbsbooks
A Girl with A Knife by Alina Rubin
3.75
This was a random pick for me ... I noticed the Kindle copy was included in Prime reading, and I could borrow the audio via Hoopla. The ratings were quite high and historical fiction fit into my genre rotation. I liked this. As with many historical fiction reads, it introduces some history so that I feel like I learn a little. I appreciated the author's notes at the end (although there were some typos there, maybe it needed another edit) as to inspiration and what portions were based on real people/things. Discussion questions were there too, which I like, although these didn't really make me think much more than I had already on my own.
I went primarily with the audio. Good narration. Loved the pronunciation of "respiratory"
There were several exchanged letters - in italics in print (maybe needed another space to separate it from the text before). Ironic that Ella/Alan is so careful in her letters out, but if anyone read Matilda's answers, she is NOT careful, and the ruse would be easily uncovered.
I did have to stop and refer to the Kindle copy at one point - a change that happened out of the blue. I felt a little lost, as if I'd missed something. SPOILER Ch8. when a detective tracks Ella down and returns her to her father. The blurb was only about the medical school, and everything in it hadn't happened yet ... I was a little surprised the father had gone to the effort of looking for her. He hadn't had a "proper drink" in three months, searching for her? Then the escape, the accident, Ella stepping up to save him - seems like with her life at risk she would have left him. All the dialog in this section felt so awkward and stilted and unreal. Everything over the top and distracting and just too convenient . I think I would have just preferred her father having died, and her being tracked down with news of her inheritance).
It was interesting to learn a little more about the medical field back in these early days.
I think the narration was well done and made it all flow more than when I reviewed the Kindle copy. Reading on my own, the writing felt a little off.
Overall I enjoyed this, and may continue on with the series (the next book is included in KU, so next time I splurge on a month of that subscription ... audio on Hoopla again).
I went primarily with the audio. Good narration. Loved the pronunciation of "respiratory"
There were several exchanged letters - in italics in print (maybe needed another space to separate it from the text before). Ironic that Ella/Alan is so careful in her letters out, but if anyone read Matilda's answers, she is NOT careful, and the ruse would be easily uncovered.
I did have to stop and refer to the Kindle copy at one point - a change that happened out of the blue. I felt a little lost, as if I'd missed something. SPOILER
It was interesting to learn a little more about the medical field back in these early days.
I think the narration was well done and made it all flow more than when I reviewed the Kindle copy. Reading on my own, the writing felt a little off.
Overall I enjoyed this, and may continue on with the series (the next book is included in KU, so next time I splurge on a month of that subscription ... audio on Hoopla again).