A review by tehyamai
Fern's Decision by Bea Paige

2.0

After an absolute belter of an opening chapter that great atmosphere didn't last and things unfortunately took a nosedive. There was a lot of absolute nothing in this book. Long scenes of rambling text that tended to go on for ever just felt like the author was going for deep and thought provoking but it came out as tedious and long winded. Every other chapter I was just wishing they'd get on with things but no another long winded paragraph of Fern's inner musings about the mysterious angel of death. We spent far too much time in Fern's head, trust me her brooding over her angel is not fun to read it's damn right boring. She's met him for all of a few minutes and now she's obsessed with him and she doesn't blame him for talking a new born baby when she's the midwife? There truly is something mentally wrong with this woman. In summary this had most of the ingredients but the recipe wasn't followed as well as it could have been. If you like books that ramble on, probably like my review, then this is for you.
Oh and just a quick note to the author - If a person is totally deaf (on a few occasions Fern turns her HAs off or takes them out completely. In the book she can't hear her mother at all or the woman screaming while in labour so she's definitely 100% totally deaf) hearing aids do not work, hearing aids can only enhance what is already there. The only kind of aid for total deafness is cochlear implants.