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The Human Trial by Audrey Gale
3.5
challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

THE HUMAN TRIAL
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9/17/23

πŸ§ͺ πš‚πš’πš—πš˜πš™πšœπš’πšœ & πšƒπš‘πš˜πšžπšπš‘πšπšœ:
Randall Archer has a pretty bad home life in Pennsylvania. He dreams of going to medical school and getting away. His guidance counselor makes it happen and off to Harvard he goes, on a full scholarship at 16, to study to be a pathologist. There he connects with people who are richer than anyone he’s ever known; including his future wife, Elizabeth Perrish and his lab mate, a physicist named Adam Wakefield. 

Elizabeth’s family are β€œthe” Perrishes whose family go all the way back to the beginning of time… ok, just Boston. This being the 1920s her family does not take to Elizabeth being an outspoken woman and definitely doesn’t approve of her new relationship with someone with a blue collar instead of blue blood. So, what does Elizabeth do? She marries him and they move  into a one room apartment and she becomes a teacher. While Elizabeth is challenging her upbringing, Randy and Adam are challenging science as it’s been known up to this point. The two come together and take huge risks… but do they pay off?? You won’t believe the ending. 

I listened to the audio and the narrator, Scott Graff, kept me fully engaged. His narration fit in with the era, sounding like a Hitchcock vibe. My only drawback in this area was the tinny sound for the inner thoughts. But that was a me thing. 

Otherwise, I really enjoyed getting to know about this time in medical history (and having looked up the author’s notes, her personal reason for the subject.) I hope more of that goes into the series later.

The Human Trial is the first in a trilogy which will span decades and a plethora of medical issues. 

πŸ’œπšπ™Έπšˆπ™»:
-Medical thrillers
-1920s/1930s
-Independent women
-Love triangles

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πŸ§‘β€πŸ«Thank you @booksforwardpr for including me on this tour and @audreygale and @netgalley for the audio review copy. 
These thoughts are my own. 
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