The form she has chosen is to start each chapter with is either “Zadie” or “Emma,” the year, and the location. However, Martin’s writing was not good enough to carry the story. I’m very squeamish about blood, so this is maybe even preferable to my seeing it on TV. You don’t have to know what exactly a subcutaneous tissue is to understand that they are inside another person’s body and the situation is probably dire. Martin does a good job of employing the terminology one would expect to find in an emergency room without making it unintelligible for the reader. And Zadie will begin to question everything she thought she knew about her closest friend…Īs a lover of medical TV shows, I was curious to see how a medical drama novel would sit with me.

Now his unexpected appearance will reopen old wounds, forcing both women to confront the circumstances that nearly derailed their lives at the beginning of their careers. Nick Xenokostas was once Zadie’s chief resident and a powerful figure in her life. Their domestic and professional lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, are chaotic but fulfilling – until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years. Pediatric cardiologist Zadie Anton and trauma surgeon Emma Colley have been best friends since medical school.

Synopsis: (as told by the back of the book) Thanks to the lovely people at Berkley Publishing for my copy of The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin.

The queen of hearts by kimmery martin