A review by liralen
Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra

3.0

Fun premise, but my strongest enduring takeaway was that this sixteen-year-old, at least, does not have the emotional maturity to practice medicine. She has the skills and education (somehow), but so many of the decisions Saira makes are very fuelled by her teenage emotions. I guess there has to be some kind of push and pull there when this is the premise of the book—professionalism against teenage idiocy?—but I wish Saira had learned something from that. Instead we just have an Evil Villain Is Evil, whose valid concerns about Saira are written off at the end of the book as mental unstability. So...I read it for the fluff, and it turned out to be too fluffy for me. Serves me right, I guess!