A review by bookellys
Do No Harm by Jack Jordan

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.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings