Book name : Suicide med
Author name : Freida Macfadden
Language : English
Genre : Psychological thriller
About the book
“I don’t want to die like this. Not here, not now—in the anatomy lab on a Saturday night. I know I’ve done some bad things in my life, but I’m pretty sure I don’t deserve this…”
One suicide. Every year.
Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med.
Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her. But after Heather’s longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble.
The pressure is intense. People crack.
Thank goodness for Dr. Conlon, her quirky but beloved anatomy professor. He’ll do anything to help his students succeed. But is it a coincidence that the bespectacled professor joined the staff the same year the suicides began?
Or are they suicides at all?
All Heather knows is that one student will die this year.
And that student could be her.
About the author:
McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple Kindle bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. She lives with her family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.
My take:
The book is a psychological thriller about the first year students from a medical school which has earned the ominous nickname 'Suicide Med', as since the past six years, one student invariably commits suicide every year. And all of this began when the eminent, intelligent and highly respected Dr Conlon, joined the college as a professor of Anatomy.
Heather is a girl with dreams to be a good doctor, but lacks the spark. She has to really work hard and push herself to get her brain wrapped around what is being taught.
Abe, who looks like a hulk, a huge yet humourous guy, is one of her first friends.
Ginny, the small, quiet little girl hardly speaks, but is good at what she studies.
Heather's roommate Rachel is least bothered about her own failures. But she does turn heads wherever she goes.
Mason, the guy who makes Heather go weak in her knees, an irritating know-it-all and a wannabe plastic surgeon, has secrets of his own.
And each one has a secret.
The story keeps shifting POV between these students and their professor, Dr Conlon.
The story is interesting. It is different from what I was expecting. Yet it was a nice change to read the story especially since it had rotating POVs. The character development is smooth. The sequence of events is well planned and organized by the author.
I had once read about the Roshomon style of writing. Rashomon-style narrative allows the audience to see a single story through multiple lenses and get a multi-dimensional sense of characters based on the way their version of events unfolds. This felt something like that, and made it interesting.
The language flows easily, and though there is no shocking twist that you never saw coming, the book is full of small twists and turns that make us want to keep reading to know what happens next.
The cover page could have been better, with a hint of what to expect.
I rate it 4 stars.
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