Medical Error Book

If I could have rated this lower I think I might have. It started off alright and it sounded promising. I wasn't overly impressed with the writing style, but I figured, "Hey, it's not horrible and the premise is interesting. It can't be too bad."

I couldn't even finish the book. I skipped a few chapters just to get to the end to see if my suspicions on the culprit were correct.

To start with, although the book started off okay, it quickly began to seem very disjointed and hastily thrown together, and I felt like I was being jerked around. The characters were bland and two dimensional, and about as interesting as a pile of rocks (not to insult the poor rocks). My impressions of the characters was that Anna was really freaking stupid and Nick was a jealous, love-struck puppy following her around, though the jealousy was another of those disjointed pieces, because one moment it wasn't there and the next it was.

As far as I'm concerned, a good ending for a suspense novel leaves the reader either saying, "Ah-ha! I knew it!" or "Wow, I wasn't expecting this person to be the culprit." This one left me saying, "Where the heck did this guy come from? He wasn't mentioned before." Because he wasn't. I skimmed the chapters I skipped just to see if there was a mention of him that I had missed, but nope. Not a thing. He was pretty much chosen at random and thrown in there to be a bad guy.

And while I don't generally mind some mentions of religion in books - religion can add to characters, after all, and that's a good thing - the mentions of God seemed to be in your face and almost crammed down your throat. I hardly noticed the first couple times and then suddenly it felt like I was being preached at. It was very off-putting, especially since there was nothing to indicate this as a Christian book, and the preachy bits seemed to be thrown in there at random with no real purpose. It certainly didn't advance the story or build the characters, otherwise I wouldn't have really cared.

The only purpose of the book seemed to be to push Christianity; there was no depth to the story or characters and it was poorly written to boot. All in all, it wasn't quite the worst book I've read, but it was close and I'm really glad I only borrowed it from the library instead of buying it.