pickA Pick-ish...3¾⭐
A decent medical thriller with subject matter that is timely, alarming even, but also really quite interesting. Like something we should all be made aware of. Sadly, the narration didn‘t quite cut it. I‘m sure that I would have enjoyed this more with a better narrator because her voice was so nasally, I was left not wanting to pick the book back up, again.
pickThis is part medical drama/ part drug world thriller. Dealing with a fatal batch of Fentanyl, this story feels real. Like you could read it a newspaper. ER doctor Julies Rees, a vulnerable, heroine on the front lines is on duty when multiple teenagers who are overdosing are brought into her ER. Unable to save all but one, she knows she must find out who is behind this rogue batch of Fentanyl, before the bodies really drop.
pickAn entertaining & informative medical thriller about the opioid crisis. Who would have guessed that my #ShadowGiller project would have me reading 3 books in a row that are partly set in Vancouver‘s Downtown Eastside? #CanLit
Full review: https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-last-high-by-daniel-kalla.html?m=1
“All these opioids basically work the same way. […] It boils down to potency that separates one from the other. Fentanyl is about 100 times more potent than heroin. But carfentanil? It‘s 100 times more powerful than fentanyl…”
“So we are talking 10,000 times as strong as heroin?”
“Exactly. The stuff was developed for tranquilizing elephants. Literally. A single grain of it can kill a person.”
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pickThank to Netgalley for the ARC Kindle
Book grabs you at the beginning. Very timely as it deal with the opoid crisis. Teens get ahold of fentnyl and end up in ER. ER Doctor helps Detectives with case. That's all I want to tell you, other than go get this book when it comes out on May 12th!
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