𝑨 𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒕𝒐𝒐. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏, 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒅, 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.

I don’t know. I’m still so confused about everything. There were answers, but not definitive because we still have no idea what is real and what isn’t. 

We’re put into the POV of Margaret who has a very rare autoimmune disease. She’s all but given up on life until she’s elected to participate in a new treatment to cure it when there is none. Everything is shady from the get-go. There isn’t a lot of information on the study, but she goes along with it anyway. I don’t blame her for that. It’s either give up or try, right? What’s the worst that could happen? 

There isn’t much that goes on the first 60%-70% in the book other than Margaret going through the day to day lab test, withdrawals, and trying to keep her sanity while being stuck in a hospital ward. I really liked the fever dream and “what’s reality?” aspects, but I felt like I had to drag myself through 200+ pages to get to anything juicy. I’ve read medical thrillers/horrors before and while this was definitely creepy, wtf, and who to trust, it was too slow paced for me. I did love that the ending was left open for another book. I’d most definitely read one about this next phase, even if it’s just to satisfy my curiosity over everything and everyone from The Graceview Patient!

Thank you so much to St. Martin’s and NetGalley for the gifted copy!