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Summary: Exciting medical thriller
Review: This is a bite-your-nails page-turner that can keep you up reading far past your bedtime. Dr. Abby DiMatteo is a second-year surgical resident in a Boston hospital who stumbles into a situation in which human organs seem to be coming from outside the medical establishment and are transplanted into patients with the most money. The stakes are high, the young doctor's life and career are on the line, and the "harvesters" will stop at nothing to prevent the interruption of their game. Gerritson's foreshadowing lets the reader figure out just enough to make you feel like an insider, but she drops in a few surprises along the way, so the tale is never predictable.
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Summary: Chilling medical thriller!
Review: Harvest was the first Tess Gerritsen book I've read. All I can say is 'wow'. I wish I would have started reading her books sooner.
Harvest was one of the best medical thrillers I have ever read. If you've Michael Palmer, Robin Cook, Don Donaldson or David Shobin, I guarantee you'll love this book.
Right from the beginning I was hooked. Many times while reading this book I got so involved in it that I would feel anxious or upset at times. I will be sure to read all of Tess Gerritsen's books!
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Summary: Fasten Your Seatbelt!
Review: This book is a thrill ride from beginning to end. The only things about it that kept me from giving it five stars are the four-letter words, (unfortunately, that's just how so many people talk), and the chapters about the Russians, which slowed down the overall tempo a bit, but, by the end, all that stuff about the Russians ties in with the rest of the plot.
The first precept of medicine is, "Do no harm," but this book tells of a small group of doctors who completely ignore this precept, killing people for their organs so wealthy clients can receive transplants on demand bypassing the normal, legal channels. The doctors involved grow wealthy themselves in the process, subsidized by the Russian mafia. (Those who might expose this plot mysteriously wind up dead, with the exception of our heroine, Abby, of course.)
HARVEST is a fascinating, page-turning read.
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Summary: A book that practically reads itself
Review: It all starts with a car accident that sees Karen Terrio lying brain dead at Bayside hospital. Her heart can save a life, but two people need the heart - a poor boy named Josh, and the wealthy Nina Voss. When Abby DiMatteo, a Resident at Bayside helps Josh get the heart she has no idea how much trouble she is letting herself in for. Victor Voss, Ninas husband has vengeance in mind - even when another heart appears for his wife. Then Abby discovers that the donor heart did not come through the proper channels. Slowly Abby begins to piece together a puzzle of organs being sold on the black market - who can she trust?There is only one word to describe this book - phenominal! I read this book after reading "The Devil's Cure" by Kenneth Oppel. I was blown away by the quality of this book - this writing is of such a high standard that it practically read itself. I read it in one sitting because I got really absorbed in the story. Tess Gerrtisen breathes absolute life into her books and the realism is there but it doesn't overwhelm you. This book has all the elements of an excellent book. The main characters are realistic while exhibitng behaviours that make you either love them or hate them, and the storyline is a strong one that stays with the novel the whole way through. SOme authors meander through their plots, but Gerritsen keeps it in line and powers through to an explosive finish. I highly recommend this book and all of the recent Tess Gerritsens. If you haven't read it yet you may also want to try "The Devils Cure" which I mentioned above.
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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: I couldn't put this book down! What a great, entertaining, scary story. There is never a dull moment in this one. My only complaint is that it ended too soon. I wish there had been an epilogue at the end. I can't recommend this one enough!!
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Summary: Great Fiction!
Review: I haven't picked up a piece of fiction for quite some time. But when my dad handed me this book, I was hooked by the end of the first chapter. As a med student, I was particularly interested in how Dr. Gerritsen depicted life in the hospital. However, the focus of the book isn't a horror story about the awful hours a resident must keep but instead is about the more horrific underground practice of meeting the demand for organ transplants. When hearts start showing up at the hospital for transplant, with no traceable history on the donors, the surgery resident finds herself asking some really important questions. The pursuit for answers not only puts her potential residency position with the prestigious transplant team on the line, but also puts her in grave danger. The story nicely accelerates into an "ER"-style drama with an emotionally clenching climax. I recommend the book!
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Summary: Three and Half-Stars if possible....
Review: This is the first Tess Gerritsen novel that I have completed and it was very entertaining. The characters didn't have the depth of a John Grisham, Michael Crichton or Scott Turow thriller, but the action did keep me on the edge of my seat and their were some unexpected twists and turns. Those were a pleasant surprise considering that you could easily connect some of the other plot lines pretty early on without any real suspense. I won't rush to read another Gerritsen right away, my guess is that she uses this formula in each book. If you are looking for pure entertainment and action in a medical setting this is a good book to read. It may also start some fun conversations with your friends about our system of distributing available organs to those in need. Happy reading....
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Summary: Middle of the road medical thriller
Review: The first Tess Gerritsen book I read was Gravity. That book was an excellent one and it prompted me to look into some of her other novels. I started with her first medical thriller, Harvest. It is a story about the rich patients bypassing the donor list to buy organs from "generated donors". An interesting and scary premise. Gerritsen excells when describing intense ER or OR scenes, unfortunately there are not as many in this book as I would have liked. Gravity was chocked full of action and suspense, this one has a bit less. An overall good book, Gerritsen fans will enjoy it; I recommend you begin reading Gerritsen with Gravity, however.
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Summary: Coma-quality stuff? No, much, much better.
Review: "Best Medical thriller since Coma." - Lots of reviewers (just because it involves the same "black market organ selling" idea) Make no mistake. Harvest is one of the greatest books I've ever read. However, the Coma comparisons have gone too far. It's far superior to Coma. The characters are more believable, for one. The ammount of action and suspense is amazing, and most of it happens outside the surgery room (No more 200 page descriptions on how the surgeon cut his stomach half an inch too deep) so this is more accessible to the average joe (The average joe that reads 350-pages-long novels, that is.) So in other words, Harvest puts emphasis on the "Thriller" in Medical thriller, instead of the opposite.
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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: Holds your interest...nice plot twists...very good writing
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