Not as much of a thriller as I expected it to be. Maybe to me thriller means heart pounding, and suspenseful. This was more just gory with a little suspense. Suspense isn't even the right word. Action. It was action-filled and bloody. If that's a thriller, fine, but it isn't in my mind. As for the story, I found the narrator breaking the 4th wall off putting at first but then I got used to it. There was a section towards the end though that I found very frustrating and poorly edited. The premise of the book is that the narrator is writing a guide for new interns, and he intersperses a tale about his last job with the guide. Which is fine. But 3/4ths of the way through, he says, "Here's where the guide ends, the rest of this book is going to be like a memoir." Which is still fine. What is not fine is the following 3 pages that recaps plot points THAT WE JUST READ. DID THE AUTHOR THINK I FORGOT THESE THINGS HAPPENED 100 PAGES AGO? DO I REALLY NEED TO BE REMINDED ABOUT THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE SAME FUCKING BOOK? Maybe it's a problem based in the format of the book: handbook turned memoir. But seriously, no one on Shane Kuhn's editing team said, "Hey maybe we don't need this part?" No one?

Despite the above rant, I didn't dislike this. It was super easy to read and breeze through. If it wasn't for all the "fuck"s I'd think 8-th graders could read it. Apparently Kuhn is a B-movie screenwriter (according to the NY Daily News) and this reads like a B-movie book, so I guess he wrote what he knew. I'm not sure I would read more from Kuhn but it wasn't bad for a first effort.