I reluctantly set the book down last night so I would be awake enough to teach my Sunday School class, but as soon as I could pick it up again after dinner, I read all the way through to the end.
I loved that Kate was a mom, thinking through the mystery while herding children; that she and her husband worked through a quarrel, and talked through so much together. The descriptions of work in a Emergency Department (too big to be just a room) were heartbreaking, scary and fascinating. Have you ever read C.S. Forester's "The Good shepherd," where a destroyer captain gets through a long submarine attack without warm enough clothes or hot coffee? The ED was like that.
And there were mice. And landlord problems. Also in-laws. Who together furnished some comic relief, especially with the spot on reaction of the children.
But despite the breather from the funny bits, I'm glad I read the last part of the book in the daylight, It would have been too exciting after dark.
I loved that Kate was a mom, thinking through the mystery while herding children; that she and her husband worked through a quarrel, and talked through so much together. The descriptions of work in a Emergency Department (too big to be just a room) were heartbreaking, scary and fascinating. Have you ever read C.S. Forester's "The Good shepherd," where a destroyer captain gets through a long submarine attack without warm enough clothes or hot coffee? The ED was like that.
And there were mice. And landlord problems. Also in-laws. Who together furnished some comic relief, especially with the spot on reaction of the children.
But despite the breather from the funny bits, I'm glad I read the last part of the book in the daylight, It would have been too exciting after dark.