Thank you NetGalley, Anthony Lee, and AuthorBuzz for providing me with this ARC of Dr Lucifer.

Dr. Lucifer is about hospitalist Dr. Mark Lin of Ivory Memorial Hospital. We meet Dr. Lin on his last few days before his 6 day off break when he gets a company wide email regarding a computer hacking program called Lucifer’s Worm. Little does Dr. Lin know that he’s about to be targeted by a hacker calling himself Dr. Lucifer in a race against time to stop the harmful deeds being done to his patients.

Honest thoughts: 3/5 stars
I would like to start by saying this author has potential for a higher rated book. I felt this book was written in a manner that felt like a play by play or a dear diary of someone’s day. It felt like there was a lot of explaining of what was happening as well as detailed descriptions of the medical terminology used in the book. In addition there was quite a bit of dialogue, but it lacked serious character development. We also got numerous descriptions of songs and how they made our MC feel, which I didn’t love. This book starts to get really interesting for me only after deciphering a far fetched poem sent via email to our MC. At this point it becomes very twisty and you want to know what happens next. The last 50-75 pages were the best part of the book in my opinion. With that being said I would read the second installment of this series or a similar book by this author.

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First, I want to thank the author and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

Overall, the book was written beautifully and the MC character development was great to read. The hospital setting was really fun to read and immerse myself into. I was worried it would be hard to read with the medical terminology but Anthony Lee made it extremely easy to follow along. The plot was flawless and the plot twist kept me on my toes.

I rated the book 3 stars only because COVID-19 got mentioned SEVERAL times and it did not need to be mentioned as much as it did with it not furthering the plot of the book. I read books to get away from the real world and having a recent/current world issue in a book was a bit hard for me to get through.

Great writing! Kept you guessing who did it! Some parts went into too much details for my taste, but overall great writing.