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soobooksalot's review
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The world is a heavy place right now. So much loss, so many suffering as a result.
Blue Notes is a fictional story about the physiology and psychology of grief, and attempts to ease the suffering of those who have lost loved ones.
Thank you to ZG Reads and BookHug Press for my gifted copy for review!
A university research group is doing human trials on the drug Callocain developed by Danish Pharma, used for the most extreme cases of grief known as Persistent Grief Disorder. Though evidence is piling up that the medication may cause unintended effects in it's test subjects.
Chapters alternate with members of the present-day research team, as well as Callocain's inventor Elisabeth starting more than a decade prior. Their depictions of loss add emotional and heart-wrenching elements to balance the scientific, and a few twists along the way.
I've always been drawn to medical stories, and Blue Notes did not disappoint. Author Anne Cathrine Bomann and translator Caroline Waight make a most readable team.
Recommended!
For release on Feb. 22.
Blue Notes is a fictional story about the physiology and psychology of grief, and attempts to ease the suffering of those who have lost loved ones.
Thank you to ZG Reads and BookHug Press for my gifted copy for review!
A university research group is doing human trials on the drug Callocain developed by Danish Pharma, used for the most extreme cases of grief known as Persistent Grief Disorder. Though evidence is piling up that the medication may cause unintended effects in it's test subjects.
Chapters alternate with members of the present-day research team, as well as Callocain's inventor Elisabeth starting more than a decade prior. Their depictions of loss add emotional and heart-wrenching elements to balance the scientific, and a few twists along the way.
I've always been drawn to medical stories, and Blue Notes did not disappoint. Author Anne Cathrine Bomann and translator Caroline Waight make a most readable team.
Recommended!
For release on Feb. 22.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Mental illness
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