The Surgeon

I have a hard time rating books like these because I know that the opinions expressed in the book aren't that of the author, yet it is very difficult to know for sure that the author is not inserting their reflections into the book.

I will give it the benefit of doubt of course because writing about difficult subject matters would cease if we were to scrutinise the author for expressing them.

It was without a doubt a great read.

I will list some of my annoyances regardless:
- there are black characters and it's important to express that they're black, but, and a big but, it wasn't a single reference, the character just becomes ‘the black character TM'
- a surgical partner says all he remembered of the candidate was how she looked, etc. and not the actual interview and this was actually a positive interaction between the two of them - is there a single woman who would feel good after that statement?
- the cop acting as if he'd healed fragile goods just by spending the night with a character and referring to her as fragile goods
- everything Rizzoli said and did
- internalised misogyny? weird descriptions of assault?
- for it to be remotely okay for the cop to fraternise with the victim
- apparently being referred to as the victim is bad but referring to a patient as a patient is okay

Again, I will chalk all of this to character flaws but be warned that the book might make you feel uncomfortable because you'll realise there isn't a single character for you to like, and I'd presume that that would be important for a book series that recurs and isn't a one-off.