Title: Lean on detail but packs a powerful punch
Product review: I picked up this book because Burke is, like myself, a former paramedic and author, and our writing deals with a similar theme: the emotional lives of people who work with and around pain and death. Burke has a sparse writing style that is lean on detail and left me feeling like I was held at arm's length from really getting to know the characters. I also wanted more detail about the paramedical happenings (but I'm a medical drama junkie so that's probably just me!). That said, this book is masterful in many ways. Burke takes a bleak situation and inhabits it with people that we all know/recognize in real life. Then there's love...for who can control WHO we fall in love with?? And somehow, he writes beauty into this relationship and what comes after it (which I'll keep to myself so as not to ruin it for others!).
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