📖📖 Book Review 📖📖 Once upon a time, I met a young resident at the hospital where I interned whose meals primarily came from the hospital. In our early days of secret dating, I would sneak homemade meals into the fridge for his overnight calls. Kristan Higgins nails the youthful scrappiness of residency in a perfectly relatable and fun way! When resident Lark is let go from oncology, she arrives starving to a dinner with a renowned surgeon with a reputation that labels him Dr. Satan. A fake dating proposal with the promise of a delicious meals along the way starts a summer to remember.

While Lark’s hospital dating scenario is fake, unlike mine, it sure was delightful to read and her stories reminded me of my days working at the hospital with my then-boyfriend (now husband). The days are long and the stories are wild and often heartbreaking and so sometimes laughter is shared over the strangest things and this book is aptly named. Look on the Bright Side is a beautifully written and narrated book that delves deep into work and life balance in the medical field and offers glimmers of hope, even in dark times.

This was a DNF for me. Almost 40% in and it was more a drama than a romance. I felt like the story had nothing to do with the blurb and all I read about was the MMC, her, mother and an older woman. I just couldn't see where this story was going with Lark and the Lorenzo. I was enjoying Larks backstory, but couldn't understand why I was reading about the other woman, when the blurb didn't even mention anything about them.
The narrators were great in this audio, I'm happy to say that part was enjoyable. I'm sad I had to DNF it but I was led on by a great blurb that just wasn't. what I was getting in the story.

Look on the Bright Side was such a sweet, funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting story from 3 different points of view. Lark, a 33 year old oncologist who has a hard time not crying while dealing with her cancer patients; Ellie, Lark's mother, is an artist that is forced to deal with some surprise marital problems; and Joy, and eccentric older woman that is obsessed with plastic surgery and just so happens to be Lark's landlady.
I laughed out loud but I also cried several times because Lark's grief was palpable. I loved that romance played a part in the story but it wasn't a central theme.