A lot of this book's problems could have been solved if it had been NA instead of YA - to have 16 year old Hazel practicing medicine was wild.  Even as a 16 year old I would have found that unbelievable.  And the characters seemed more mature than teens, too, and not in the way that 17 seems like adulthood when you're 13.  

But a lot of this book's problems would have persisted all the same: it's not spectacularly written, with a lot of repetition and some language choices that made me question historical accuracy.  Maybe its worst offense, though, is that it's woefully underplotted and then the entire book is jammed into the last 30%.  There's really nothing that happens in the first 70% besides Hazel going to medical school (!!) and Jack being like "I will steal bodies for this pretty girl," and then all of the sudden there's

a black market for organs??? And then an IMMORTALITY SUBPLOT???

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Honestly just kind of ridiculous overall.

Thank you Wednesday Books and NetGalley for the ARC.

CW: deceased sibling, graphic descriptions of medical procedures