A full review of this book will be forthcoming on my blog. However, the brief synopsis of my opinion is this: The Girl Without a Name is a decent read, but there are things that caused me pause and detracted from my ability to enjoy the narrative. It's not a bad book by any means, but I just felt based on bits of the story and sections of the writing, I think it could have been much better with some increased editing. It just needed a bit more sharpness.

Block very easily translates her profession into the novel, with medical expertise showing through her writing. This is definitely a strength as it makes the book much more believable. However, the primary character of Zoe Goldman is so incredibly lax with her adherence (or rather lack there of) to basic patient privacy rules for the medical profession, that I found myself inherently disliking her. Being a physician herself, Block should have been able to clean this up to be less offensive while still enabling events to take place that would properly move her plot in the correct direction. This was probably the largest issue I had with the novel and absolutely resulted in a large amount of the influence over my final rating.

Overall, the story has good bones and the ending is well structured. I was pleasantly surprised with it's originality. The writing has moments of being relaxed but intriguing, showing that the author definitely has a literary touch. Ultimately, I just felt that some pruning and fine tuning was necessary to make the book a more enjoyable read. The Girl Without a Name has a decent premise, but needed a bit more realism in character development and streamlining of plot. I didn't dislike it, but didn't wow me.