The Human Trial by Audrey Gale, Narrated by Scott Graff - Medical Thriller / Historical Mystery
Medical Thriller / Historical Mystery
Date Published: Sept. 21, 2023
Publisher: Books Fluent
Narrator: Scott Graff
Run Time: 9 hours, 8 minutes
Dr. Randall Archer is a misfit....
....in the brutal blue-collar home where he grew up.
....as a 16-year-old escaping to college, then medical school, on a full scholarship to Harvard.
....in the highest echelons of Boston society, where the woman he marries and the blueblood research partner with whom he shares his laboratory belong.
Even Archer’s brilliance as a pathologist catapults him into direct and dangerous conflict with the medical establishment he fought so hard to join.
As the Great Depression presses down around him, Archer teeters at the edge of a precipice. He must choose between his hard-won career and the sacred oaths he took as a doctor and scientist—before all his choices are lost forever.
Review by Jena Baxter
The Human Trial
This is a tough review. I like the premise. The writing and narration
are both well done. But I believe the omniscient style of writing stole a lot
of emotion from the story. I don’t normally comment on the writing style
because it’s really what the Author prefers, but different styles tend to showcase
stories and characters differently.
The characterization is great. Randall is trying to keep
abreast with a society he doesn’t belong to even in the worst conditions. His
best friend Adam, who is driven by a study he hopes will create a medical
breakthrough. And Elizabeth, a spoiled young rich woman struggling to get out
of her parent’s control and create a mark on the world of her own. Everything
for all of them comes at a cost.
The story is good, and it keeps your interest, but it’s slow
moving. I figure that to be due to the style of the time. This is historical
fiction. And to the content of the story, medical research. While medical
research is interesting, it’s slow moving in nature.
I feel like saying more would create too much information,
so I’m going to leave things here. Would I read another book if this is a
series? Yes, but it would be read at my leisure and not in a ‘I have to finish
this’ rush.
About the Author
Audrey Gale long dreamed of being a writer, but never anticipated the circuitous road she’d take to get there. After twenty-plus years in the banking industry, she grew tired of corporate gamesmanship and pursued her master’s in fiction writing at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, a legal thriller entitled The Sausage Maker's Daughters, was published under the name A.G.S. Johnson. Her second, The Human Trial, is the first book in a medical thriller trilogy inspired by Gale’s own experiences with the gap between traditional medicine and approaches based on the findings of the great physicists of the 20th Century. Both The Sausage Maker’s Daughters and The Human Trial incorporate Gale’s fascination with historical and scientific research, and always with women finding their places. Gale lives in Los Angeles with her husband and dogs where she is found hiking the Santa Monica Mountains every chance she gets.
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