Review: Parts of the plot left hanging
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2012
This book kept my interest and the lead character was a real piece of work. What I found frustrating was the appearance of a mysterious character in the form of a beautiful nurse whose tea rapidly heals bad wounds he has, who intimates she has powers (which are never revealed) and has multiple outstanding credentials but has come to work with him in the operating room for only 9 months (why the time limitation?? Never clarified). The book implies that it's her influence that changes his 'bedside manner' but never shows how this happen, nor does the 'right woman' she predicts for him, drawing on her gypsy-like powers, appear even in the form of a hint. Her role in the book is never developed and she soon disappears from the author's interest as oddly as she appeared in the book, For those lapses in plot closure along with some smaller ones (how or why did Siamese twin killers become involved??) I felt let down in the book overall.