The Waiting Rooms

Stell dir vor du hast eine Entzündung und kaum ein Medikament hilft mehr. Stell dir noch dazu vor, du bist über 70 und bekommst überhaupt keine Antibiotika mehr. Ein Harnwegsinfekt oder eine entzündete kleine Wunde führen zum Tod. So ist die Ausgangssituation in Eve Smiths neuem Roman "Der letzte We......more

To be honest, I am finding The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith a little bit daunting to review. Not only is this an incredibly prescient book, addressing a host of important themes and issues, but also manages to balance this with being an incredibly compelling thriller. So I’ll take the bull by the horn......more

Wow. Reading this in the current climate was scary and tense, but utterly addictive. The timing could not have been planned any better. The tagline - No Drugs, No Miracles, Just Fear - could be describing the Corona crisis. If the themes are dark and topical, the writing is exquisite. Breath held, I......more

An antibiotic resistance epidemic would be a scary thing to happen, but quite plausible in the near future. Author Eve Smith took my greatest fear as a doctor to write a convoluted, yet so convincing a plot that I had goosebumps as I read through the prose. A powerful debut by a dynamic author, this......more

Well, now. Where do I even begin? If you’re looking for a thought-provoking, terrifying but realistic story that’s extremely apt for the crazy times we’ve been living in the last few months, … here it is! I’m hard pressed to think of any other book that blurs the lines of fiction as much as The Wait......more