A review by debsiddoway
The Poppy Sisters by Deborah Carr

2.0

This book suffered through not really having any sort of compelling story, and characters that the reader was not ever able to fully invest in. The two sisters were almost carbon copies of each other, just sent to different places, both falling in love with patients. The writing was passable, but the story was dull, and I found myself skimming through it just to get it read, in the hopes that it might improve. It had all the promise of a hood story, but it just didn't work. There was also not a lot of world setting - even when one of the sisters trundled off for a holiday with a random family member of a random doctor she was working with, I never felt drawn into where they were. This book is actually a good example of a book that has a lot of promise, but would have benefitted from greater editorial oversight - it needed a bit of a ruthless re-write.