Will I love The Nurse's Secret?

This book had it all! Beautiful writing, intriguing characters, great medical details, a sweet love story, and a mystery. I absolutely loved it and learned a lot about the beginning of nurse training programs in America.

The best characters are the ones with scandalous pasts, and Una Kelly certainly fits into that category. Though she applies to the Bellevue Training School for Nurses in the 1880s to avoid being implicated in a theft, she ends up uncovering far worse crimes happening under the doctors’ noses. Skenandore has done her research here, and you’ll be transported into the Bellevue Hospital of the 1880s with an almost alarming sense of reality. Despite richly detailed descriptions of grimy tenement living, the gore of 19th-century medicine, and all the seedy aspects of New York’s past, The Nurse’s Secret leaves the… show more.

I found this historical story spellbinding. My imagination was ignited by the vivid setting that jumps off the page and the well-defined, intriguing characters that kept me fascinated from beginning to end. I highly recommend you read it, but I’m warning you, if you do pick it up, you won’t be able to put it down. I couldn’t.