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Summary: Badly written and fundamentally silly
Review: Familiar devices, cardboard characters and flat, insipid writing. Any reader with an ounce of sophistictaion is going to find this very tiresome fare indeed. These days, thank Heaven, you can find good thrillers (even the odd medical one) that are actually well written. This just isn't one of them.
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Summary: This book was aweson!!
Review: I was a little disappointed in her last book...meaning I could put it down. This one I read cover to cover!!! The plotting...the pacing...the characters kept me on the edge of my seat. Hope she keeps this going...don't want her to become another Robin Cook.
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Summary: Worth it.
Review: Harvest moved fast but somewhat predicatablly. Life-Support was a step-up with its intensity and a suspenseful, unpredicatable plot. In Bloodstream, Gerritson arrives at a comfortably unhurried pace that keeps you involved. This succuess is due in part to a more carefully defined cast, a set of players with more character and history than in either of her previous novels. Additionally, the array of potential culprits for the disturbing behavior arising in Tranquility, and Dr. Elliot's investigations of them, are threads which Gerritson tailors into a fabric strong enough to both hold the plot together and to pull the reader's curiosity this way and that. L.L - Fairfax, Virginia
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Summary: An excellent read with believable characters. Good suspense.
Review: This was the first book I have read by this author and I intend to try her other novels. The plot, although outrageous, had sound medical background. I enjoy a good medical suspense that I cannot solve by the middle of the book. This book gave me that with a touching romance as a bonus.
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Summary: Mechanical, predictable & ultimately dull
Review: Ms Gerritsen just tries too hard. Nothing about this thriller really seems spontaneous or genuine. Everything is a device, a method. You feel you're being simply manipulated like a sap. Better writing and some sense of it all being real would help. Skip it.
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Summary: Bloodstream was an intriguing, yet puzzling book.
Review: While BLOODSTREAM was a captivating and intriguing book, it was puzzling as well. Can such creatures really exist? Is this a realistic situation? The characters were most realistic and believable.Any mother can relate to Dr. Claire's frustration and anxiety. This book was definitely worth the read.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: As someone who's read all of Ms. Gerritsen's romantic mysteries and medical thrillers, "Bloodstream" was a true thrill. This is the book I've been waiting for her to write, to show mainstream readers what she's capable of. I actually bought it last September, but put off reading it because I was worried about being disappointed again. I shouldn't have worried. Unlike the painfully predictable "Harvest" (apparently my review was so negative Amazon refused to post it) or the relentlessly depressing "Life Support," "Bloodstream" is a tense, engrossing read that never reveals too much of its hand and always keeps you on the edge of your seat. It never fails to shock, and the hospital scenes and science at its core give it a solid grounding in reality that's impossible to ignore. Real characters and understandable dilemmas add extra dimension to the tale. My only concern was that the ending was awfully abrupt (was I the only one who wanted to know what would happen to the town, the reaction of the townspeople, etc. after everything?), and yes, the worms were a bit much (why do parasites always turn out to look like worms?). For anyone looking for truly spine-tingling, can't-put-it-down escapist entertainment, this is the one for you. Ms. Gerritsen, welcome back.
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Summary: Almost, but no cigar
Review: This is my second Gerritsen book, and I'm sorry, but I can't see what every one is raving about. Similar to my impression of the first Gerritsen book I read, this book was decent, but I was not as impressed as others have been. Different scenes in the book were pretty good, but they still didn't add up to more than an average book--in my opinion. In fairness I'll say it may be because I listened to the abridged version of this book on cassette. Maybe I missed elements of the book that those who read it were privy to. At any rate, I give it 3 stars for the effort.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING
Review: One of the best medical mysteries I've read in a long time, even better than Robin Cook. The terror in this book is palpable. If you like suspense W/ a little romance thrown in, you'll be in paradise with this book!!!!
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Summary: Superb
Review: This is another superb book by Tess Gerritsen -- excellent plot and character development throughout!
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