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As someone who's in this field, I could relate to so many things happening in The Queen of Hearts. Residency is hard. Sleepless nights with too many hours of working straight through is tough. Mistakes are going to be made and recognizing responsibility for one's actions is always important.

The Queen of Hearts centers around the lives of Zadie Anson, Emma Colley, and Nick Xenokostas. We're able to listen to Zadie and Emma's voices as well as the narrative involves both the past and their present when Nick comes back into their lives.

Zadie and Emma became friends during medical school. They remain friends during residency and then as colleagues. They are both happily married with children. Emma is a successful trauma surgeon and Zadie is a pediatric cardiologist. They do share secrets and one topic is not up for discussion: Nick. During their third year of medical school, something happened that changed everything. As the story progresses, the reader is privy to this information.

I was surprised to learn this was Dr. Kimmery Martin's debut novel. The Queen of Hearts had a nice flow, with an interesting plotline and multidimensional characters. I was happily surprised at the humor. So classic in med school. Distancing from a patient in order not to break down is a modus operandi to protect one's mind. It's necessary.

I can't say the big reveal took me by surprise. I knew it from the beginning but I thought the author's delivery was perfectly accomplished. Jealousy and envy are both at the heart of this story. The question is: Are you capable of forgiveness?

I would definitely read another book by Dr. Martin. I'm excited to see what's next for her.

Cliffhanger: No

4.5/5 Fangs


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The Queen of Hearts Kimmery Martin 9780399585890 Books Reviews

This book is so much fun to read! I loved how the 2 main characters each had such distinct “voices”...and how the beauty of their friendship, even with its flaws, unfolded. I couldn’t put it down. Don’t miss this one!
I am so excited for my online friend and her first book. And I had a hard time putting it down.

There was definitely more shenanigans than I experienced in medical school, but maybe that was because I had no interest in surgery. Anyway, this book tells the story of what happens when the past comes to light and when secrets That were thought to be dead and buried come to life.
I like the juxtaposition between today and the past in medical school, and how thoughts and feelings are made to come to th surface.
I am not sure, however, that I would be as forgiving as the main character Zaide. And yet, as a female physician, I can understand her forgiving her best friend. Life can be pretty lonely as a female physician. You don't quite fit in with the other kids' mothers,so to have a friend who has been through it all with you, who is also a mother and physician, well it is hard to throw it away. I enjoyed Kimmery Martin's first book and look forward to her future writing.
I really enjoyed this book. It pulled me in right away and kept me there until the end. Always happy when I find a book like that. There were some good surprises through the book. Not so much the ending, which was predictable but it did end on a nice note. I enjoyed reading all of the hospital ER scenarios with great descriptions. Impressed this is the first book by this MD, now author.
Wow! The Queen of Hearts is such a fun read! I was hooked from page 1, laughed out loud during certain points, and thoroughly enjoyed the suspense contained within its pages. I am a physician and trained in Louisville; so the flashbacks to 1999 were palpably real. It was wonderful to live vicariously through the main characters Zadie and Emma. I also loved the present day descriptions as the women face being physicians while tackling being wives and moms. The humor was awesome especially in dialogue by little Delaney, Zadie’s daughter. Buy this novel today—it is so much fun, impossible to put down, and the kind of book a person could read all night. (if I just didn’t have to go to work!) Lastly, TQOH really gets into not only romance and love, but friendship and forgiveness. The prose is spot on medically, funny and fun, but also heartfelt and poignant. I loved it!
Kimmery Martin's debut novel, THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, is engrossing, from the medical setting to the cast of characters There are some marvelous one-liners and three-year-old Delaney steals the show with her dialogue and actions. The story is told in two points of view and two timelines (the present and their third year of medical school) when one of them has an affair with a sexy chief resident. First we meet Zadie, a part-time pediatric cardiologist and full-time mother with a loving, but largely absent spouse. Her chapter is followed up by Emma, Zadie’s best friend from childhood and whose friendship endures through medical school and beyond.

As a physician, I enjoyed the true-to-life medical aspects and the human drama as well as the various subplots. My only complaint is that the two women, though the were childhood friends and physicians, had very different backgrounds. I realize that Emma worked hard to overcome her childhood poverty and Appalachian accent, but still I’d have liked a bit more difference in their voices.
When what you were hoping for is a smart-as-hell author writing about smart-as-hell characters, THE QUEEN OF HEARTS comes along and smashes already high expectations. Martin displays not only her medical chops, but keen wit and superlative word craft. The story is laced with emergency room snapshots and surgical terminology, creating a colorful backdrop for the domestic drama at play between two women—friends, mothers, wives, doctors—challenged not just by the responsibilities of holding someone's life in one's hands, but by toddler temper tantrums, car pools, and bad decisions from the past that reappear and threaten everything. This is only Martin's debut. I get giddy thinking about what she'll do next.
As someone who's in this field, I could relate to so many things happening in The Queen of Hearts. Residency is hard. Sleepless nights with too many hours of working straight through is tough. Mistakes are going to be made and recognizing responsibility for one's actions is always important.

The Queen of Hearts centers around the lives of Zadie Anson, Emma Colley, and Nick Xenokostas. We're able to listen to Zadie and Emma's voices as well as the narrative involves both the past and their present when Nick comes back into their lives.

Zadie and Emma became friends during medical school. They remain friends during residency and then as colleagues. They are both happily married with children. Emma is a successful trauma surgeon and Zadie is a pediatric cardiologist. They do share secrets and one topic is not up for discussion Nick. During their third year of medical school, something happened that changed everything. As the story progresses, the reader is privy to this information.

I was surprised to learn this was Dr. Kimmery Martin's debut novel. The Queen of Hearts had a nice flow, with an interesting plotline and multidimensional characters. I was happily surprised at the humor. So classic in med school. Distancing from a patient in order not to break down is a modus operandi to protect one's mind. It's necessary.

I can't say the big reveal took me by surprise. I knew it from the beginning but I thought the author's delivery was perfectly accomplished. Jealousy and envy are both at the heart of this story. The question is Are you capable of forgiveness?

I would definitely read another book by Dr. Martin. I'm excited to see what's next for her.

Cliffhanger No

4.5/5 Fangs