the_coycaterpillar_reads's review against another edition
3.0
The Nurse is everything that I love about True Crime. I read this with vigour. Every so often my husband would ask me what I was reading, and I would animatedly describe how a nurse would commit these awful acts. I think he sometimes worries about me– he questions my passion for true crime. It’s not exactly the acts per se but it’s the psychology of why a human can commit these atrocities.
Fate is something that can change at the drop of a hat. One minute you’re going into the hospital for something routine and the next you’re on death’s door, your body wants to go into complete shutdown. That cruel fate lands on several patients of Christina Aistrup Hansen, a nurse working in a Danish hospital. She has been accused of poisoning her patients with Morphine. In fact, it was a well-known fact that when the nurses had a shift with Christina, they knew they’d be in for a rough time. There were more cardiac arrests during Christina’s shifts than any other and I find it very strange how her colleagues didn’t pick up on the discrepancies sooner.
Fate is something that can change at the drop of a hat. One minute you’re going into the hospital for something routine and the next you’re on death’s door, your body wants to go into complete shutdown. That cruel fate lands on several patients of Christina Aistrup Hansen, a nurse working in a Danish hospital. She has been accused of poisoning her patients with Morphine. In fact, it was a well-known fact that when the nurses had a shift with Christina, they knew they’d be in for a rough time. There were more cardiac arrests during Christina’s shifts than any other and I find it very strange how her colleagues didn’t pick up on the discrepancies sooner.
woyster's review against another edition
3.0
Wish there was a middle rating for books that are perfectly just ok, but that doesn't really work in a 5 star system. If this was imdb I'd give a 6, a little over average, and enjoyable most of the way through. It was interesting but the ending about the court proceedings draged on a little and i don't personally find that part as interesting. Thanks to recency effect it makes me like the book less. Sadly almost all true crime books suffer from this problem so I'm trying to not let it cloud my judgment too much.
I think my only other problem with the book comes from me reading the audiobook version. The narrator does not know any Danish what so ever, no name is pronounced right, no newspaper or organization name is either. Great narrator otherwise but maybe not the man for this job or he should have been paid to practice, because it is distracting to think a person is a woman for 30 min because a name is pronounced "Ane" and not "Arne" which i later assumed was actually his name. As someone who understands Danish i couldn't even guess to what he was trying to say when he'd say anything Danish. For a long time i thought the name of an organization was the name of a section of Danish law, I'm still not sure which it was now after the fact. I guess that might be on the author too, but it was very distracting trying to understand when it's said all wrong so I might have missed some context due to that.
Overall decent true crime book. Don't recommend the audiobook to Scandinavians.
I think my only other problem with the book comes from me reading the audiobook version. The narrator does not know any Danish what so ever, no name is pronounced right, no newspaper or organization name is either. Great narrator otherwise but maybe not the man for this job or he should have been paid to practice, because it is distracting to think a person is a woman for 30 min because a name is pronounced "Ane" and not "Arne" which i later assumed was actually his name. As someone who understands Danish i couldn't even guess to what he was trying to say when he'd say anything Danish. For a long time i thought the name of an organization was the name of a section of Danish law, I'm still not sure which it was now after the fact. I guess that might be on the author too, but it was very distracting trying to understand when it's said all wrong so I might have missed some context due to that.
Overall decent true crime book. Don't recommend the audiobook to Scandinavians.
bettiray's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
3.0
I found the topic interesting but the book was far too repetitive and I would have preferred more personalisation of the story rather than lots of facts.
mamabrauner's review against another edition
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
3.5
Ganske glimrende bog der giver indblik i en ellers mystisk sag der handler om hear-say. God som et mere fakta tjekket grundlag hvis man har set eller ønsker at se "Sygeplejersken" på Netflix.
Bogen blev læst via lydbog. Oplæseren er en kende monoton, men det fungerer, da det ikke er for oplæseren, men for bogens indhold man læser. Uanset er bogen spændende så der lægges slet ikke mærke til at oplæseren har cirka samme spændingskurve i stemmen som en eftermiddag på et plejehjem.
Bogen er læst via E-reolen.
Bogen blev læst via lydbog. Oplæseren er en kende monoton, men det fungerer, da det ikke er for oplæseren, men for bogens indhold man læser. Uanset er bogen spændende så der lægges slet ikke mærke til at oplæseren har cirka samme spændingskurve i stemmen som en eftermiddag på et plejehjem.
Bogen er læst via E-reolen.
ninajohanne's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0