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colorfulleo92's review against another edition
4.0
Mycket intressant true crime som hände på ett sjukhus. Det är skrämmande att det är en sann händelse och inte fiction, men den är välskriven och man känner verkligen för offren och dom närstående.
lasamviela's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.0
cyireadbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Medical Ward M130 treats the hospital’s most seriously ill patients. On that ward, Cristina Aistrup Hansen is the lead nurse. Cristina gained a reputation as a take charge person and was often portrayed as the Nurse Nightingale of that floor. However, statistics would prove othewise.
In 2010, Cristina would complete her first year working in Ward M130. That year, 87 patients were declared dead. An unusually high number. In 2011, a startling 95 patients were declared dead. As the death toll climbed, Cristina’s colleagues became increasingly wary of the sinister statistics, which lead to Cristina being accused of poisoning her patients in 2012.
Though only three deaths and an attempted murder were linked to Cristina, speculation was that there were dozens more. But there wasn’t enough evidence to link the dozens of more deaths to Cristina. Even the four that were linked were circumstantial. But with the evidence on hand, Cristina was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of three people and the attempted murder on one person.
Cristina appealed and based on updated evidence, Cristina’s sentence got reduced to 12 years with credit for time served. Cristina is slated for parole in March 2023.
The Nurse is a mild true crime novel as it doesn’t contain a lot of gory details. There’s a lot of facts and figures that can get overwhelming, but I found it interesting. Some of the terminology can be a speed bump in the reading flow, but there are footnotes and references to help along the way.
I enjoyed the bulk of the novel and found Corfixen’s details highly interesting. Added to her details is the fact that Corfixen manages to include the updates on Cristina’s appeal and parole status. What didn’t appeal to me is the tangential narrative about Health Care Serial Killers. It didn’t add much and I just found it a distraction to the true crime story at hand.
Overall, The Nurse is an engaging read if you enjoy the true crime genre. It would be interesting to learn what other true crime novels Corfixen has in store for us. Four stars.
I received a digital copy of the book from Podium Publishing through NetGalley. The review herein is completely my own and contains my honest thoughts and opinions.
In 2010, Cristina would complete her first year working in Ward M130. That year, 87 patients were declared dead. An unusually high number. In 2011, a startling 95 patients were declared dead. As the death toll climbed, Cristina’s colleagues became increasingly wary of the sinister statistics, which lead to Cristina being accused of poisoning her patients in 2012.
Though only three deaths and an attempted murder were linked to Cristina, speculation was that there were dozens more. But there wasn’t enough evidence to link the dozens of more deaths to Cristina. Even the four that were linked were circumstantial. But with the evidence on hand, Cristina was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of three people and the attempted murder on one person.
Cristina appealed and based on updated evidence, Cristina’s sentence got reduced to 12 years with credit for time served. Cristina is slated for parole in March 2023.
The Nurse is a mild true crime novel as it doesn’t contain a lot of gory details. There’s a lot of facts and figures that can get overwhelming, but I found it interesting. Some of the terminology can be a speed bump in the reading flow, but there are footnotes and references to help along the way.
I enjoyed the bulk of the novel and found Corfixen’s details highly interesting. Added to her details is the fact that Corfixen manages to include the updates on Cristina’s appeal and parole status. What didn’t appeal to me is the tangential narrative about Health Care Serial Killers. It didn’t add much and I just found it a distraction to the true crime story at hand.
Overall, The Nurse is an engaging read if you enjoy the true crime genre. It would be interesting to learn what other true crime novels Corfixen has in store for us. Four stars.
I received a digital copy of the book from Podium Publishing through NetGalley. The review herein is completely my own and contains my honest thoughts and opinions.
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.