A review by emjay24
The Mercy Rule by Perri Klass

2.0

This is a random book that I took out from the library. At first I thought i might not like it, and was pleasantly surprised at how interested i was, but then as soon as I moved away from the first couple of chapters, it went downhill. The book is about a pediatrician who mainly works with kids from social services, something she feels strongly about because she was a foster child/adopted herself. she has a husband and two kids, but kind of ignores the husband half the time, and she blatantly dislikes her daughter, favoring her son. Her daughter knows this. Poor thing. She also looked down on her patients. The main woman was just so distasteful to me that it ruined the whole book. Stories of different families were interesting, as were the chapters narrated by the daughter.