Zachary Kai
This book was so difficult to read, yet so engrossing and hopeful, as all the best treatises calling for much-needed change are. What was so surprising was the format! Rather than just an endless stream of hard-won statistics and polemic writing, this is best described as creative nonfiction.
Each chapter tackles a different aspect of the harms in medicine, threading together anonymized patient stories, damning facts and figures…and at the end? A fiction. Almost a short story, often written in second-person, about what might happen if everything went right.
Why aren’t more people doing this? Why haven’t I seen this in a book before?
Informative, kind, clear-eyed, and incisive, as all the best doctors are, the author presents an unignorable case. Not only has she identified healthcare’s problems, but presented the solutions.
I received an early copy courtesy of the publishers via Netgalley. All opinions are mine alone.
This book was so difficult to read, yet so engrossing and hopeful, as all the best treatises calling for much-needed change are. What was so surprising was the format! Rather than just an endless stream of hard-won statistics and polemic writing, this is best described as creative nonfiction.
Each chapter tackles a different aspect of the harms in medicine, threading together anonymized patient stories, damning facts and figures…and at the end? A fiction. Almost a short story, often written in second-person, about what might happen if everything went right.
Why aren’t more people doing this? Why haven’t I seen this in a book before?
Informative, kind, clear-eyed, and incisive, as all the best doctors are, the author presents an unignorable case. Not only has she identified healthcare’s problems, but presented the solutions.
I received an early copy courtesy of the publishers via Netgalley. All opinions are mine alone.
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Added to listgenre-romancewith 3 books.
A clone wakes up with someone else’s memories and seventy-two hours to solve her murder. I had no idea how much I needed this premise until I read it.
Carma Two has to investigate a crime, grapple with what it means to exist as a copy, wrestle with the feelings her original carried for the boy she loved…all while trying to ensure her survival.
This book has such angst, philosophical bite, and intrigue! The clone technology feels plausible, the ethical questions feel urgent, and the mystery was perfect: a blindsiding, yet perfectly sensical reveal.
I’ve read hundreds of books, and only two have ever made me cry. This is one of them. And it ended the story in a gut-punch of first sorrow, then…extraordinary hope.
I received a copy from the author via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. All opinions are mine alone.
A clone wakes up with someone else’s memories and seventy-two hours to solve her murder. I had no idea how much I needed this premise until I read it.
Carma Two has to investigate a crime, grapple with what it means to exist as a copy, wrestle with the feelings her original carried for the boy she loved…all while trying to ensure her survival.
This book has such angst, philosophical bite, and intrigue! The clone technology feels plausible, the ethical questions feel urgent, and the mystery was perfect: a blindsiding, yet perfectly sensical reveal.
I’ve read hundreds of books, and only two have ever made me cry. This is one of them. And it ended the story in a gut-punch of first sorrow, then…extraordinary hope.
I received a copy from the author via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. All opinions are mine alone.
Added to listread-2026with 4 books.
This is the fourth instalment in the King’s Fool series, and my introduction to it. The beauty of this book is you can read it without prior knowledge of the characters or the time!
This entertaining, dare I say cozy-esque historical mystery, happens in 1540, during Henry VIII’s disastrous marriage to Anne Of Cleves. His loyal court jester, Will Somers, (who was a real person!) has somehow survived the previous three marriages and is determined for this to be his king’s last.
Except a tempestuous royal, a puzzling romance, a new lover, and courtly intrigue threaten to derail even his best attempts at planning. And then there’s the whole murdered nobleman’s body keeps vanishing and reappearing around the palace thing. What’s a man to do? Investigate, of course.
His relationship with his clever wife is the book’s highlight. It’s also queer in every sense of the word, without falling trap to dressing modern sensibilities in historical language.
With plot twists, a thoughtful protagonist, and careful detail, reading this was sheer delight. Onto the previous books in the series!
I received a copy from the publisher via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. All opinions are mine alone.
This is the fourth instalment in the King’s Fool series, and my introduction to it. The beauty of this book is you can read it without prior knowledge of the characters or the time!
This entertaining, dare I say cozy-esque historical mystery, happens in 1540, during Henry VIII’s disastrous marriage to Anne Of Cleves. His loyal court jester, Will Somers, (who was a real person!) has somehow survived the previous three marriages and is determined for this to be his king’s last.
Except a tempestuous royal, a puzzling romance, a new lover, and courtly intrigue threaten to derail even his best attempts at planning. And then there’s the whole murdered nobleman’s body keeps vanishing and reappearing around the palace thing. What’s a man to do? Investigate, of course.
His relationship with his clever wife is the book’s highlight. It’s also queer in every sense of the word, without falling trap to dressing modern sensibilities in historical language.
With plot twists, a thoughtful protagonist, and careful detail, reading this was sheer delight. Onto the previous books in the series!
I received a copy from the publisher via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. All opinions are mine alone.
Added to listRead 2025with 95 books.
