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5.0
~E-copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review~
Hannah Fâtier is an anesthesiologist with a brand new job at Deaconess Hospital in San Francisco. Her life seems ordinary until a patient under her care dies before the routine operation had properly begun. Hannah is blamed due to a basic medical error, yet Hannah knows she isn't to blame. Research into the patient Hannah discovers many inconsistencies. And learns that someone has framed her for a fatal medical mistake she knows she didn’t make.
Okay, I really enjoyed this book. I feel like thriller novels are now something I should look into more. Hannah is such a great character, I loved her so much and felt so sorry for her as she was put through all this terrible suffering. She lives an intriguing life which in turn increased a good tale. The novel only focuses on what's essential, and Stookey creates a female lead that was great to root for. And the supporting cast - while they didn't feel as fully fleshed out, but they were still likeable and believable. This is such a short review, but this book was so great! I could definitely see this as a tv show!
Overall, a detailed, thrilling novel that keeps you gripped until the very end!
Hannah Fâtier is an anesthesiologist with a brand new job at Deaconess Hospital in San Francisco. Her life seems ordinary until a patient under her care dies before the routine operation had properly begun. Hannah is blamed due to a basic medical error, yet Hannah knows she isn't to blame. Research into the patient Hannah discovers many inconsistencies. And learns that someone has framed her for a fatal medical mistake she knows she didn’t make.
Okay, I really enjoyed this book. I feel like thriller novels are now something I should look into more. Hannah is such a great character, I loved her so much and felt so sorry for her as she was put through all this terrible suffering. She lives an intriguing life which in turn increased a good tale. The novel only focuses on what's essential, and Stookey creates a female lead that was great to root for. And the supporting cast - while they didn't feel as fully fleshed out, but they were still likeable and believable. This is such a short review, but this book was so great! I could definitely see this as a tv show!
Overall, a detailed, thrilling novel that keeps you gripped until the very end!
emarleene's review
4.0
Where Death is a Hunter contains every single ingredient that makes up for a superb book. The book begins right in the heart of everything when the main character, Hannah, explain what happened the day she lost a patient on the operating table. And Hanna's way of pulling you into her story is amazing. And bit by bit she reveals new things about herself and how this incident affected her.
I was at first surprised a bit by the style of writing, which is more of a backstory type of writing. And rather than showing the story as it unfolds, Hannah retells this story in her own words. It was very different for me, but I ended up really enjoying it. Somehow it made it all feel so real, like Hannah was a friend of mine that I lost touch with, and this was her letter to me where she told me this story. It just worked so well.
Every page was filled with intrigue and there was no way I could bring myself to put the book down, I had to finish it. Ended up reading the whole thing in less than four hours, and I enjoyed every single part of it.
The story is a mix between medical drama and mystery, and the author does this so well. It wasn’t until I finished the book that I realized that Christopher Stookey in fact is a doctor himself, and in retrospect that really shows in the pages. The medical part is so well described and so authentic that not once did I feel confused or wonder how the author knew these things. Hannah was a doctor to me, and everything she did and said made that perfectly clear without being too technical about it.
The feelings of guilt and the hesitations about getting back into the job after losing a patient all felt so genuine and I really connected with Hannah.
I am not completely sure how to explain my love for this book, but I truly enjoyed it and I would recommend this to everyone who likes to read. You can’t miss out, this is great.
I was at first surprised a bit by the style of writing, which is more of a backstory type of writing. And rather than showing the story as it unfolds, Hannah retells this story in her own words. It was very different for me, but I ended up really enjoying it. Somehow it made it all feel so real, like Hannah was a friend of mine that I lost touch with, and this was her letter to me where she told me this story. It just worked so well.
Every page was filled with intrigue and there was no way I could bring myself to put the book down, I had to finish it. Ended up reading the whole thing in less than four hours, and I enjoyed every single part of it.
The story is a mix between medical drama and mystery, and the author does this so well. It wasn’t until I finished the book that I realized that Christopher Stookey in fact is a doctor himself, and in retrospect that really shows in the pages. The medical part is so well described and so authentic that not once did I feel confused or wonder how the author knew these things. Hannah was a doctor to me, and everything she did and said made that perfectly clear without being too technical about it.
The feelings of guilt and the hesitations about getting back into the job after losing a patient all felt so genuine and I really connected with Hannah.
I am not completely sure how to explain my love for this book, but I truly enjoyed it and I would recommend this to everyone who likes to read. You can’t miss out, this is great.
zaheerah's review
5.0
~E-copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review~
Hannah Fâtier is an anesthesiologist with a brand new job at Deaconess Hospital in San Francisco. Her life seems ordinary until a patient under her care dies before the routine operation had properly begun. Hannah is blamed due to a basic medical error, yet Hannah knows she isn't to blame. Research into the patient Hannah discovers many inconsistencies. And learns that someone has framed her for a fatal medical mistake she knows she didn’t make.
Okay, I really enjoyed this book. I feel like thriller novels are now something I should look into more. Hannah is such a great character, I loved her so much and felt so sorry for her as she was put through all this terrible suffering. She lives an intriguing life which in turn increased a good tale. The novel only focuses on what's essential, and Stookey creates a female lead that was great to root for. And the supporting cast - while they didn't feel as fully fleshed out, but they were still likeable and believable. This is such a short review, but this book was so great! I could definitely see this as a tv show!
Overall, a detailed, thrilling novel that keeps you gripped until the very end!
Hannah Fâtier is an anesthesiologist with a brand new job at Deaconess Hospital in San Francisco. Her life seems ordinary until a patient under her care dies before the routine operation had properly begun. Hannah is blamed due to a basic medical error, yet Hannah knows she isn't to blame. Research into the patient Hannah discovers many inconsistencies. And learns that someone has framed her for a fatal medical mistake she knows she didn’t make.
Okay, I really enjoyed this book. I feel like thriller novels are now something I should look into more. Hannah is such a great character, I loved her so much and felt so sorry for her as she was put through all this terrible suffering. She lives an intriguing life which in turn increased a good tale. The novel only focuses on what's essential, and Stookey creates a female lead that was great to root for. And the supporting cast - while they didn't feel as fully fleshed out, but they were still likeable and believable. This is such a short review, but this book was so great! I could definitely see this as a tv show!
Overall, a detailed, thrilling novel that keeps you gripped until the very end!
kdowli01's review
3.0
An exciting medical murder mystery. Hannah, an anesthesiologist, at first appears to be responsible for the death of a patient during a routine procedure, but as time goes on it becomes clear something more complicated is going on.
This was quick and suspenseful and surprisingly easy to read despite the setting, which could easily lend itself to crammed with medical jargon. The action starts immediately and the main character is a believable, likable character, easy to root for and sympathize with. I really liked the plot, the way the story developed, and was ultimately resolved, however I think too much time was spent explaining the conclusion. It was like that scene in a movie where the bad guy stops from killing the good guy to explain all of his motivations and exactly how and why he did everything he did. It felt unnecessary and a little unbelievable. But the story overall was clearly thought out and everything fit together well, making it a thrilling read.
This was quick and suspenseful and surprisingly easy to read despite the setting, which could easily lend itself to crammed with medical jargon. The action starts immediately and the main character is a believable, likable character, easy to root for and sympathize with. I really liked the plot, the way the story developed, and was ultimately resolved, however I think too much time was spent explaining the conclusion. It was like that scene in a movie where the bad guy stops from killing the good guy to explain all of his motivations and exactly how and why he did everything he did. It felt unnecessary and a little unbelievable. But the story overall was clearly thought out and everything fit together well, making it a thrilling read.
lilyn_g's review
5.0
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What did I think of it? First, I have one minor criticism I'm going to get out of the way... The synopsis is mis-leading on one point. Hannah isn't engaged to be married when the book starts. Or even by the middle of it. The engagement was broken off before the book starts...and that, folks, is literally the only criticism I have of Where Death is a Hunter.
This was a fast-paced book, and it read as such. Coming it at 372 pages, I had read the first 157 pages of it in under an hour. It's one of those that, while intelligently written, reads so easily that you're not really aware of how much you've read until you have to take a break from it. That's the mark of a very good book.
The author doesn't bury you with irrelevant details. He focuses on what's important. He forms a main character that you quickly begin to sympathize with and root for, and a supporting cast that - while maybe not fully fleshed out - are developed enough that each are recognizable, none are cardboard cut-outs, and all are believable. The ending ties things up satisfactorily, bringing a good close to what had been pretty much a non-stop ride from the first pages.
Overall, Where Death is a Hunter is a fantastic book that I would highly recommend for anyone that loves medical thrillers. Christopher Stookey is better than Robyn Cook in this particular bookworm's opinion. I'm hoping the author has me review more of his books in the future!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book free from the author in exchange for an honest review.
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