Author: Kimmery Martin
Published: February 20th 2020 by Berkley
Format: eBook, Hardcover, 352 pages
Genre: Fiction
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
After reading the endnotes and seeing how Kimmery Martin had first intended for this book to go, I am so glad she scrubbed those chapters and started again with a less conventional path and a story that is both timely and memorable.
Kimmery Martin does not tell you everything about her characters or situations in the first pages, or even the first chapters. You are slowly learning about them as their narratives, and their current controversy is unfolding.
Doctor’s Georgia Brown and Jonah Tsukada, work for a private religious-based hospital in Charleston. Jonah is first to notice some of his patients are either not showing up for appointments or are being asked to leave by the administration. No one is telling Jonah why but when he confides in his best friend Georgia, they begin to uncover a duplicitous plot to remove patients, and their doctors, who the hospital deems unworthy of treatment. At its core, the reasons are deplorable and when the doctors delve into the motivations, they are confronted with a series of lies and career-ending innuendos which not only put their careers on the line but their lives also.
Of course, there are love interests and deceptions, but at the core is friendship, integrity, justice, and the meaning of family for people who have had to scrape and claw for everything they have.
There are a few parts that do not mesh as well as they could, but these broad-brush moments are forgiven since the book worked for me. So much so that I now must go back and find Kimmery Martin’s first book, The Queen of Hearts.
Kimmery Martin does not tell you everything about her characters or situations in the first pages, or even the first chapters. You are slowly learning about them as their narratives, and their current controversy is unfolding.
Doctor’s Georgia Brown and Jonah Tsukada, work for a private religious-based hospital in Charleston. Jonah is first to notice some of his patients are either not showing up for appointments or are being asked to leave by the administration. No one is telling Jonah why but when he confides in his best friend Georgia, they begin to uncover a duplicitous plot to remove patients, and their doctors, who the hospital deems unworthy of treatment. At its core, the reasons are deplorable and when the doctors delve into the motivations, they are confronted with a series of lies and career-ending innuendos which not only put their careers on the line but their lives also.
Of course, there are love interests and deceptions, but at the core is friendship, integrity, justice, and the meaning of family for people who have had to scrape and claw for everything they have.
There are a few parts that do not mesh as well as they could, but these broad-brush moments are forgiven since the book worked for me. So much so that I now must go back and find Kimmery Martin’s first book, The Queen of Hearts.
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