The Clinic

3.5 rounded up. While it was an enjoyable read overall, this had its ups and downs. While fiction of course doesn't have to be plausible to be an enjoyable read, there is just something about the topic of addiction and rehab being portrayed as somewhat sci-fi that limits the ways the story can be spun. Maybe this is why this felt almost too close to “Nine Perfect Strangers” in some ways. The differences were enough to make it a good “beach read” but it was not quite as intriguing as I wanted it to be and lost me in a couple of places, but then it picked up again, so in the end it was still good read.

Damnit. Really wanted to love this. Quinn's technical execution wasn't as shabby as others are saying. And suspending disbelief is required. But this one lost me and I hate that it did. The premise was so good.

I thought I knew what was going on, but I was shocked by the twists, so I was obviously wrong. I am so glad I was surprised. The twists were well done and looking back on it, there were hints I missed. Meg is obviously an unreliable narrator and we can't completely trust the other patients. That led me to doubting the workers as well. However the author does a great job of making these people potentially unreliable without making them bad people. I really liked the way she humanized the addicts and presented the problems with rehab. She helped us understand it while keeping up the tension and the humanity of people. I am so glad that I read it.

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I'm so confused for what to feel for this book. On one hand I really like the content of the story and I appreciate that this was inspired by the author's own experiences. I just think there was a lot of loose ends that didn't fit together in the end, and maybe I don't understand the content as well as I thought I did? I'm just so confused I don't know if I can review this properly

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₊˚⊹♡ reading log

16/05 8:35pm ୨ৎ
i am so close to finishing this but dnfing it would also feel so good but i've come this far ive got to know how it ends

15/05 4:20pm ୨ৎ
okay so i feel like the premise of this is really good but the execution has fallen slightly short? it just feels weird and choppy but i am really invested in the outcome, im just not spooked or anything like i feel i should be?

14/05 9:44pm ୨ৎ
how does one balance reading and work/school

13/05 7:44am ୨ৎ
i'm always nervous to read on the train because i dont like people looking over my shoulder

₊˚⊹♡ pre-reading

i'm not doing so good on my planned may tbr (the gripes of being a huge mood reader) - but i'm not tooo mad about breaking it for this one because i loved the premise of this thriller, but i've been put off by the reviews, so let's see how it goes.

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may tbr:

ಇ. salt to the sea
ಇ. powerless
ಇ. house of earth and blood
ಇ. everyone in my family has killed someone
ಇ. bride
ಇ. listen for the lie
ಇ. she's not sorry
ಇ. love on the brain
ಇ. the familiar
ಇ. a court of wings and ruin
+ a good girl's guide to murder
+ the clinic

4 stars

I love the book cover and the setting in The Clinic.
Meg was my favorite, so much sass and her struggles were so life like. Meg checks herself into the rehab to find out what happened.

I liked the points of view we had and the short chapters. Big book flew by. It was very interesting, and so many twists.

i really liked this one up until about the 80% mark, the big twist is what ruined this book for me I didn't like it at all and there were just things about the ending that I just overall didn't like and I am a person where an ending makes or breaks a book and this one unfortunately broke the book

Excellent book! I was captivated!