Unfortunately for the reader, it seems that this story serves no major purpose besides acting as an advertisement for the Kingdom Hospital TV series. The writing is clunky, the plot progression incredibly slow, and the dialogue filled with cliché after cliché. This is a shame, as the idea behind the story -- an elderly woman discovers (and then remembers) horrible experiments on children that take place in a hospital -- has a lot of potential.
This is the first book by Dooling that I have read. I don't think it would be fair, however, for me to assume that he is a bad writer, as it is pretty clear that this book was written quite quickly for purely commercial reasons. I have a suspicion that his other works are much better.
1 out of 5 stars
