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soobooksalot's review
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
"The tears, they make you tired."
When in a pandemic, do as the pandemics do.
Author and physician Kimmery Martin wrote Doctors And Friends before Covid-19 hit the world early in 2020. And her account of Artiovirus - CARS-ArV-01 - bears similarities to how our pandemic has played out.
It's fiction that reads like reality, of a virus with it's series of unknowns and chilling side effects. It's impossible not to read it through our own pandemic filters.
The women of Doctors And Friends attended medical school together and remained close friends while navigating their specialities - Kira (infectious disease), Compton (emerg), Hannah (ob/gyn), plus Vani, Emma, Zadie and Georgia.
Kira, Hannah and Compton are the point of view characters - we experience their fears and realities of the viral threat, personal and professional challenges, their losses and heartaches.
Thank you to my awesome friend Nat for my copy of this book for Christmas. This is Kimmery Martin's third novel and she's an auto-buy author for me. I've long been a fan of medical thrillers.
A book about a pandemic won't be for everyone, there are definitely triggers relating to recent times. But for those interested, this story with the backdrop of medical accuracy is recommended.
When in a pandemic, do as the pandemics do.
Author and physician Kimmery Martin wrote Doctors And Friends before Covid-19 hit the world early in 2020. And her account of Artiovirus - CARS-ArV-01 - bears similarities to how our pandemic has played out.
It's fiction that reads like reality, of a virus with it's series of unknowns and chilling side effects. It's impossible not to read it through our own pandemic filters.
The women of Doctors And Friends attended medical school together and remained close friends while navigating their specialities - Kira (infectious disease), Compton (emerg), Hannah (ob/gyn), plus Vani, Emma, Zadie and Georgia.
Kira, Hannah and Compton are the point of view characters - we experience their fears and realities of the viral threat, personal and professional challenges, their losses and heartaches.
Thank you to my awesome friend Nat for my copy of this book for Christmas. This is Kimmery Martin's third novel and she's an auto-buy author for me. I've long been a fan of medical thrillers.
A book about a pandemic won't be for everyone, there are definitely triggers relating to recent times. But for those interested, this story with the backdrop of medical accuracy is recommended.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Miscarriage, Medical content, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts
gtrue21's review against another edition
challenging
3.5
This is a bit hard to read in our current pandemic context, but this fictional pandemic was handled so much more carefully than irl. The way the characters helped one another through this awful situation was heartwarming.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Violence, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, and Chronic illness
its_a_rave's review
challenging
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Honestly expected to like this much more than I did!! None of the relationships felt super poignant to me, so instead I was just… reading a book about a terrifying pandemic when I didn’t love any of the characters? Ashley Spivey really hyped this one and now I’m not sure whether I’d like the author’s earlier works. It felt like we were supposed to believe in the friendships (it’s in the title!) when they actually felt very peripheral to the characters’ journeys in the book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness and Dementia
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