Nolan's Reviews > Code Triage

I’m writing about this book primarily to get credit for it in my Goodreads reading challenge. Were it not for that, I just wouldn’t even bother to take the time to write about it. I’ll keep this brief, I promise.

Leigh Stathos is a San Francisco-based emergency-room doctor whose “treat ‘em and street ‘em” motto is how she likes her life. Keep it efficient, keep it devoid of emotion, and remember nothing lasts forever, especially if that nothing is your marriage.

Nick Stathos is a cop who played doctor, as it were, with his recently deceased best friend’s sister. Doctor Leigh finds out, figures the marriage can’t be treated, and wants out. But he’s still in love with her, despite diddling the social worker, who shows up at Leigh’s emergency room one not-so-fine day on a matter not related to her affair with Nick.

I should have stopped reading this the second I saw the name of the publisher. It’s one of those Tyndale books, and you can almost always count on those to get preachy and heavy handed before you hit the back cover.

This was a one (wasted) day read for me; it went by quickly, was most forgettable, and seemed filled with characters who behaved inconsistently. I’m as huge a fan of redemption and as badly in need of it as anyone I’ve ever known. But the second chances here just felt like rubbing a snow-flocked artificial Christmas tree and pretending it feels real. Just not happenin’.