Book Review // The Queen of Hearts

Rating: 3/5

Synopsis:
"Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their 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. 

As chief resident, Nick Xenokostas was the center of Zadie's life--both professionally and personally--throughout a tragic chain of events during her third year of medical school that she has long since put behind her. Nick's unexpected reappearance at a time of new professional crisis shocks both women into a deeper look at the difficult choices they made at the beginning of their careers. As it becomes evident that Emma must have known more than she revealed about circumstances that nearly derailed both their lives, Zadie starts to question everything she thought she knew about her closest friend." -Amazon.com

Review:
Medical dramas are my tv show of choice (next to The Bachelor, of course), so my expectations were probably too high. The medical jargon was distracting! I needed more romance and more drama and more scandal!! ⁣⁣One of my biggest pet peeves while reading are when characters start popping up towards the end and I’m like, “wait, do we get invested in you?? Who are you??” I guessed the “scandal” —if we want to call it that, and so the ending was a little flat. ⁣⁣

I loved that it was set in Charlotte, NC. I could picture the entire setting in my mind. Did you know Charlotte is called the Queen City? And we call the downtown “Uptown” because the city is perched on a hill? Cool facts, huh?

⁣⁣I couldn’t really identify with either Zadie or Emma, but Emma was such an annoyance for me. She was the worst (THE WORST) friend and I can’t believe Zadie didn’t just sucker punch her in the face when she found out. And why did Emma think she Zadie would just forgive and forget??! ⁣