Molly Foust reviewed The healer's war by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Review of "The healer's war" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This might be a 5, it is just that the ending could only be anti -climatic and I am reviewing after I have set it down. Most of it was so gripping I felt a little heady. It is the story of a nurse in Vietnam, who is given a healing amulet. The magic is informed by the author's experience. Our heroine, Kitty is cynical, humorous, flawed, and the first person voice works perfectly. The horror, kindness, cruelty and love experienced by Kitty and her patients, comrades and enemies are so vivid that it was emotionally trying to read it, and led me to stay up most of the night to finish. I was rather blown away.
Now the ending, or the so-named part 3- I don't know if going to disney world could ever be okay for an ending, but she comes close, and I felt like coming back …
This might be a 5, it is just that the ending could only be anti -climatic and I am reviewing after I have set it down. Most of it was so gripping I felt a little heady. It is the story of a nurse in Vietnam, who is given a healing amulet. The magic is informed by the author's experience. Our heroine, Kitty is cynical, humorous, flawed, and the first person voice works perfectly. The horror, kindness, cruelty and love experienced by Kitty and her patients, comrades and enemies are so vivid that it was emotionally trying to read it, and led me to stay up most of the night to finish. I was rather blown away.
Now the ending, or the so-named part 3- I don't know if going to disney world could ever be okay for an ending, but she comes close, and I felt like coming back from a war could only be a let down. It just that it skips through time, and does not have the same pace as the first 2 parts, so it comes across as rather deus ex machina. It felt like getting banged for a long time and then your lover just gets up and leaves. Hmmm.
