The blurb:
In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can.
My thoughts:
Coma Girl was billed as “family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance.” I wasn't entirely sure how that would happen, seeing as the main character, Marigold Kemp, was unconscious and confined to one room in a hospital – the “vegetable patch” – but somehow, Coma Girl managed to be all that and more.
The book is written diary-style, with a chapter for each day over six months. Marigold ends up in a coma when her car is hit head-on by a famous footballer, an accident her sister walks away from. The twist? Marigold becomes a social media sensation, and while she can't see anything, she can hear every word her visitors say, and her memory works pretty well too.
From her fame-hungry sister, her fighting parents, and her wannabe psychic aunt to her ex-boyfriend, a renegade doctor, and an orderly who can't keep it in his pants, Marigold's certainly got a lot to think about. And then there's the sports-obsessed detective and the mysterious stranger who reads her poetry, plus the other three occupants she shares her room with. All of their stories twine together in Marigold's head, and it's amazing the secrets people tell when they think nobody can hear them.
There are plenty of twists in Coma Girl's story, and the bite-sized chapters means it's easy to pick up and put down again if you don't get obsessed like me – once I started on this series, I binge-read all six books in the series in one day (they're quite short, around a hundred pages each) and finished, exhausted, at two o'clock in the morning.
Coma Girl is Amazon exclusive, and is available via Kindle Unlimited.
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