A review by bookishbrighton
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

4.0

My main takeaway from this book is that it is absolutely criminal that not everybody in the world knows the name Henrietta Lacks. The book is split into two parts - first half of the book is the story of Henrietta’s life whereas part 2 is more about after her death and contained more interviews, science, etc… I therefore found part 1 far easier to read and generally more enjoyable; absolutely granted that it isn’t necessarily going to be an ‘enjoyable’ read given the topic, but just reporting on my experience of reading this book - it did start to lose me in part 2 and it felt like a chore to read. Regardless of this, I do think everyone should read this book from an educational perspective, hence the 4 star rating - and had part 2 been written in the same style as part 1 I probably would have given it 5 stars.