I can't decide if two stars is generous or just right for this book.

The idea of a novel about high powered doctors and medical mysteries/disasters is an interesting one and I think I'd like to read a good book on the subject instead of this rushed one.

I know that "Monday Mornings" is being produced as a TV show and knowing that this novel totally reads like a screenplay idea. There are tons of BIG BOLD characters with BIG BOLD traits that they keep telling us about and they are all doing BIG BOLD things! Guess what? Did we tell you that they are SUPER SMART and NEVER MAKE MISTAKES but wait? There was a mistake? NO WAY?! Not by one of our team of heros.

YAWN.

If we learned about the doctors slowly and chose who to like and dislike and then became invested in some of their stories and their patient stories (like we might be able to do over a full TV season) this would probably have really entertained me. Instead I just found it annoying. Especially in the final quarter when I was actually laughing out loud at some of the ridiculous (and completely predictable) turns in the plot. OK, as I type I am revising my review down to a single star.

Verdict: pretty terrible as a book but I am going to watch the episode of the TV I have taped to see if it's any better. I think it really does have some potential as a rival to Grey's Anatomy. ( )

I liked the book a lot. So many changes happened at the department at the end, but then isn't that how things are. I remember a Dilbert cartoon about Bungee boss and we laughed because it was true. Possibly he could have had the changes occur at different periods instead of all at the end. Maybe he was at deadline. I thought the characters were developed and I cared about them. Having so many of them was difficult, but having seen my share of hospitals I know there are many people floating in and out of different departments. If would be good to see if Dr. Gupta could revisit some of the characters again in their own books a few years later. ( )

The book had some really good parts in it. However, I have to say that in this case, I enjoyed the tv series more than the book. All in all, it is a good read, though. ( )

Monday Mornings is about a group of six doctors in a fictional hospital called Chelsea General. These doctors come from all walks of life. There is Dr. George Villanueva, a divorced former NFL player with a young son whom he has nothing in common with; Dr. Tyler Wilson, a hotshot neurosurgeon whose ego gets in the way and costs a young boy his life. Dr. Tina Ridgeway who comes from a legacy. She's in a loveless marriage, has an affair with Dr. Wilson, and finds more comfort in working at a free clinic than at Chelsea.

Dr. Sung Park is the oldest with the most amount of experience having two surgical residencies under his belt. He's a workaholic but a medical ailment may cause him to see there more to life than medicine. Dr. Sydney Saxena has forsaken any semblance of a personal life for a chance to become Chief of Surgery. They all for under Dr. Harden Hooten, the Chief of Surgery and his Morbidity and Mortality. It happens every Monday mornings at 6am.

I was really surprised in how much I really enjoyed this novel. Honestly, my opinion was clouded on how boring the show on TNT was. I thought it was well-paced and through. Dr. Sanjay Gupta gave me some interesting insight to those M&M conferences. Those M&M conferences are ingenious! Surgeons learn from each other's fatal mistakes. I liked the characters except for Ridgeway. I felt that she was selfish. I really liked Saxena and Park. I admired their work ethics. ( )

Monday Mornings is about a group of six doctors in a fictional hospital called Chelsea General. These doctors come from all walks of life. There is Dr. George Villanueva, a divorced former NFL player with a young son whom he has nothing in common with; Dr. Tyler Wilson, a hotshot neurosurgeon whose ego gets in the way and costs a young boy his life. Dr. Tina Ridgeway who comes from a legacy. She's in a loveless marriage, has an affair with Dr. Wilson, and finds more comfort in working at a free clinic than at Chelsea.

Dr. Sung Park is the oldest with the most amount of experience having two surgical residencies under his belt. He's a workaholic but a medical ailment may cause him to see there more to life than medicine. Dr. Sydney Saxena has forsaken any semblance of a personal life for a chance to become Chief of Surgery. They all for under Dr. Harden Hooten, the Chief of Surgery and his Morbidity and Mortality. It happens every Monday mornings at 6am.

I was really surprised in how much I really enjoyed this novel. Honestly, my opinion was clouded on how boring the show on TNT was. I thought it was well-paced and through. Dr. Sanjay Gupta gave me some interesting insight to those M&M conferences. Those M&M conferences are ingenious! Surgeons learn from each other's fatal mistakes. I liked the characters except for Ridgeway. I felt that she was selfish. I really liked Saxena and Park. I admired their work ethics. ( )