I received a free advance copy to review.

I will start off by saying this isn't my usual genre - I am much more of an avid fiction reader.

That being said, I was extremely interested in the premise of this book: shadowing different ER nurses and providing a peek inside their lives. It started off strong, I was hooked in by each of the different unique women and their perspectives. However, I ended up not finishing this - it just couldn't hold my interest. I liked the parts that involved the nurses and their day-to-day, but the informative, essay-like commentary in between just didn't interest me. It was too many facts and research, and a lot of it started sounding all the same. It felt weird inserted in between the real life stories.

I would have preferred a different format... less essays and research and more just a look inside the nurses' days, then drawing my own conclusions about how flawed the system is and how hard they work. This may be just because I don't typically read a lot of non-fiction.