On Rotation

took me so long to finish but it was a good read

I started a new job this week, and as it's a bigger company with Systems in place, I can't log on to Goodreads all the time like I did at the last place. On the other hand, while I was waiting for the Systems to do things like get me the software I need to do my job, I managed to get through a big chunk of this book today. So.

I had this on my Kindle, and I mistakenly thought it was a capital-R Romance novel, and while it does feature a friends-to-lovers romance, this is not the main focus of the book. Our heroine Angie is a third-year medical student doing hospital rotations and such, and so there's a lot of her friends, and family, and school stuff, and oh yes there's a very hot painter guy who she falls in love with but it is complicated because she builds this relationship up in her mind, and breaks it down in her mind, and is super wishy-washy about basically everything that isn't Becoming A Doctor. (Have a conversation! I say. Except they DO eventually and it doesn't make it better! It's confusing why these two can't just Be Happy!!)

Obuobi is very clearly well-versed in the medical world and provided helpful footnotes for some things that I didn't already know from watching Scrubs. And also, Angie is Ghanaian-American, so I liked getting those peeks into a different culture. I didn't love the extensive use of the footnotes outside of these, though - sometimes they felt distracting, and so I started skipping over them unless it was about a term I didn't know or something.

Overall, I enjoyed it, didn't love it.

CW: racism, death (including that of a teen), drug addiction (off-page), accidental pregnancy

i only like books that have a Bridget Jones' Diary type of story