A review by sarah_ellen_bbgr
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

The ending of this book infuriated me. It's really interesting and well written - very hard to put down. BUT the very last page features a giant twist that felt 💯 like a last-minute publisher idea to turn it into a sequel and there was no thought to how it would retroactively change other parts of the narrative and the character development/motivations throughout. Just the most contrived, disappointing device I've come across in a long time. But otherwise, if you can get past all the CW content, the rest of the book is pretty good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, and Hate crime

Moderate: Self harm and War