Bodies: From the creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty
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Only worth a 3 star in some respects, but I enjoyed the depiction of hospital life. The ending was clumsily clipped, however, and kind of put me in mind of one of those crime procedurals where the gritty cop sticks his hands in his pockets and acknowledges the futility of challenging the system whilst smoking a battered dog end and chucking the chin of his attractive, naive assistant, hoping the world won't get her down the way it got him AT THE END OF EVERY SINGLY EPISODE. So the ending is a bit pat, is what I'm saying. This book manages to achieve the same effect despite only having one ending. Also, there's a totally throw-away bit of character development that really was so poorly done it just undermined the overall effect. The main character is supposed to be a young, upstanding christian at the start of the book who slowly loses his faith in the face of harsh reality. But really, his religion is never properly incorporated into his personality- he occasionally says a quick prayer and we're told there's a bible in his room which he later dramatically throws out, having not read a single damn page in the entire story. This is supposed to be shorthand for the loss of innocence and faith in his profession, but we're only told, not shown, how important his religion is to him. So when he drops it, we're like, "Yes? And?" Jed Mercurio should either have committed to this idea or dropped it; having it so half-heartedly done only got in the way, really. Overall the whole thing was a bit predictable, to the point where something significant would happen, say his HO making a fatal mistake that he has to cover up, and I'd find myself looking at my watch and thinking, that took a few pages longer to happen than I thought. So, no surprises here, but worth a read for the atmosphere and details of hospital life, and for the relevant things it has to say about the culture of blame in hospital medicine.
Beiträge
Only worth a 3 star in some respects, but I enjoyed the depiction of hospital life. The ending was clumsily clipped, however, and kind of put me in mind of one of those crime procedurals where the gritty cop sticks his hands in his pockets and acknowledges the futility of challenging the system whilst smoking a battered dog end and chucking the chin of his attractive, naive assistant, hoping the world won't get her down the way it got him AT THE END OF EVERY SINGLY EPISODE. So the ending is a bit pat, is what I'm saying. This book manages to achieve the same effect despite only having one ending. Also, there's a totally throw-away bit of character development that really was so poorly done it just undermined the overall effect. The main character is supposed to be a young, upstanding christian at the start of the book who slowly loses his faith in the face of harsh reality. But really, his religion is never properly incorporated into his personality- he occasionally says a quick prayer and we're told there's a bible in his room which he later dramatically throws out, having not read a single damn page in the entire story. This is supposed to be shorthand for the loss of innocence and faith in his profession, but we're only told, not shown, how important his religion is to him. So when he drops it, we're like, "Yes? And?" Jed Mercurio should either have committed to this idea or dropped it; having it so half-heartedly done only got in the way, really. Overall the whole thing was a bit predictable, to the point where something significant would happen, say his HO making a fatal mistake that he has to cover up, and I'd find myself looking at my watch and thinking, that took a few pages longer to happen than I thought. So, no surprises here, but worth a read for the atmosphere and details of hospital life, and for the relevant things it has to say about the culture of blame in hospital medicine.