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Click Here to Start by Denis Markell

2.0

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This book was a major disappointment. It played on soooooooo many stereotypes, about women, about Japanese people, about intellectuals. I strongly disliked how Ted and Caleb treated Isabelle for the majority of the novel. Even Ron and Harry weren't that mean to Hermione for being smart in the first Harry Potter book. I didn't like that Ted was billed as this super-genius, who didn't know how smart he was, surrounded by very smart women who were somehow obnoxious for being smart enough to show Ted up, and yet still not as smart as Ted himself.

By about half-way through the book, I just wanted it to be over. I only finished it to find out how the mystery resolved, and even that fell flat. I'm not sure if hospitals are run differently in California than they are in other states, but several of the plot points crucial to Ted obtaining clues did not seem even remotely plausible given my own extensive experience with hospitals

Spoiler

(the cameras inside patient rooms is a gross violation of privacy that I can't imagine any patient would actually agree to, revealing a patient's name and which room they are staying in is a HIPA violation that could lead to the loss of a medical professional's license. As the child of a medical professional, I have visited quite a few hospitals and hospice facilities in a number of states from Illinois to Hawaii, and not one of them-ICU and CCU floors included-required a visitor to sign in or out. That is certainly not normal procedure for general visitors upon entering the main entrance of a hospital. That wouldn't even be practical, since most hospitals have doctor's offices in them and people coming in and out all day.).

I sadly will not be recommending this book to any of my young patrons.