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The Doctor Series Daniel Hurst

 I've read the whole series now, and in my opinion, I think its best to read The Doctors Wife, Widow, Mistress, Child then the Doctor, but it would have been interesting to read the Doctor first as that ties up all the loose ends you wondered about in the Doctors Child.


Everyone raved about the Doctor's wife, but I was mildly seething that retribution for crimes had not occurred. I found the Widow a get out of jail card if you pass go on the Monopoly board, the antagonist was literally getting away with murder, missing all the snakes on the child's game and jumping up the ladders of success. The Mistress saw a turn of events and a cheer from the crowd, well me any way retribution would commence but by the end of the book your gasping and asking did what just happen, just happen did she... Live another day as we jump into The Doctors Child. Parental and child angst, and this reminded me of the darkness that women suffer with postnatal depression and that telling weariness of never sleeping, ever providing for the child. Reminds me Richard Dawkins quote the child is a parasite, and he was almost never to step in daylight again because of what he said. Treading on the same dangerous path as John Bowlby who dared to say that children deprived of a mother suffer affectionless psychopathy and the knives where carved once again for humanist Richard. Thats what I loved about studying psychology, it just equip you with the wit to say "we state the f obvious" it offered you a wealth of knowledge you might never ever use again, except when your a writer, or reading other writers psychological masterpieces. The doctors child wound it all up, I wept 3/4 through at a characters demise. Writers don't kill for the fun of it, unless its the plot and its murder. But then I cried when a beloved character died in Petals in the Wind or was it If There be Thorns. Choose your deaths wisely, because I would loved the character now slayed by Death (not the one from Disc World we hope) to have asked the Antagonist why, answer me a few questions! For the love of... sadly he didn't. The series ended with retribution for the Antagonist and happy ever after for everyone else.                                     However, as most authors, Daniel then delightfully spun his web one more time for the ultimate snap trap the Doctor and you see in this just how deviant and "evil minded" or "psychotic" the Antagonist is. Would I have been a doctors wife? No, because in my experience I saw the doctors husband and the doctors child and I saw her work herself almost to death, for the love of her patients, did she have wealth? apparently GPs are paid per patient and receptionists are paid by the hour....

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