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Reviewed by Jennifer Senick for Readers' Favorite
Shr. Mpe’s Consent Withdrawn sinks its hooks in with the quiet precision of a scalpel and doesn’t let go. This psychological thriller begins in the sterility of Saint Aeron hospital, where Sol Keeran arrives to inspect the forensics department. Instead of a routine audit, Sol uncovers something deeply wrong beneath the hospital’s orderly and calm routines. He’s used to tough cases after working in the prosecutor’s office; he thinks he’s seen it all, but the hospital ward he walks into feels off from the start. What unfolds is less like a nightmare and more like a slow, precise undoing with a clinical unraveling of ethics, choices, and everything we think we believe in. Enter Dr. Ruvan Sael—a brilliant surgeon with an uncanny ability to do the impossible. He doesn’t just save lives; he changes them—with a scalpel and something that feels disturbingly wrong. It gets a bit graphic when describing the surgeries, but never for shock value, and readers should expect characters who say more when they say nothing at all. The story spirals into a slow-burning mystery full of redacted files, impossible surgeries, and unsettling patterns that raise the question: What exactly is going on here?
If you like psychological thrillers, you’ll be hooked from the start. Dr. Sael’s scenes left me feeling unsettled, but in the best way. He’s part genius, part enigma, and part power all rolled into one. Sol’s slow unraveling of the truth is incredibly well-paced. The writing is razor-sharp and filled with haunting images, and it had tension I could feel. Since I’ve studied the ethics related to psychology, I found myself wondering about the bigger ethical questions this medical story poses. Questions like: “Who decides what’s right in medicine?” and “What happens when someone plays God, and no one’s paying attention?” Consent Withdrawn by Shr. Mpe is gripping, innovative, and deeply thought-provoking. If you like medical thrillers with a chilling edge and characters who linger long after the final page, this one’s for you.
