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Summary: Very Clever
Review: Two nuns are brutally attacked within the walls of a cloistered convent (one of the nuns survives the attack and the reason she survives is revealed eventually and it just blew my mind. Very, very clever). Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles are among the first on the scene. At first glance, it seems obvious what happened. One of the nuns who was attacked was young and attractive and had recently given birth. The priest for the nuns is also young and attractive...but no. There is more to this mystery. Much more. The pages of this book just fly by. I have enjoyed Gerritsen's previous novels, but she has outdone herself with this one. I hated to see it come to an end. An exceptionally good read.
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Summary: ok thriller and bad melodrama
Review: I can't call this novel a thriller for the simple reason that most of it is about feelings and love affairs of two main female characters (police officer and medical examiner. These characters are also in other books by this writer.) I didn't find it very exciting (on the other hand, I am not a big fun of this genre). The rest (whatever is left) of the book is good enough thriller. The author is definitely knows the subject (I understand she is a doctor of internal medicine) and the novel effectively conveys the grisly details of the murders. I found the ending to be a little bit stretched though. Recommended only if your love of medical thrillers can overcome the presense of many pages of nonsignificant melodrama.
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Summary: Gripping thriller
Review: I love Tess Gerritsen's thrillers, and "The Sinner" has only solidified my opinion of her. Slightly different from her previous novels in that it is told more from the point of view of coroner Dr. Maura Isles instead of police detective Jane Rizzoli, "The Sinner" grabbed my attention from the beginning and never let go. It's easier to understand the characters in this book if you read "The Surgeon" first because in this book Gerritsen refers to relationships that changed in "The Surgeon" and that now carry over into "The Sinner."Gerritsen's portrayal of Jane Rizzoli can be a little too stereotypically woman-having-to-act-super-tough-because-she's-in-a-man's-world, and that has sometimes annoyed me when reading her previous novels. However, because "The Sinner" is really Dr. Isles' book instead of Rizzoli's, you get Rizzoli's gruffness in snippets instead of being hit over your head with it throughout the novel, and this makes "The Sinner" actually a more enjoyable read. This was a very entertaining thriller in typical Gerritsen style. And, yes, it can get gruesome, but if you've read Gerritsen, you've come to expect the gruesome details.
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Summary: Grisly and chilling
Review: An appalling murder at a convent puzzles Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Det. Jane Rizzoli at the start of this seventh novel from bestseller. The duo are called to Boston's Graystones Abbey when two nuns are discovered in an abandoned chapel, one dead and the other near death, both callously bludgeoned. Isles discovers that one of the murdered nuns had recently given birth. Complicating matters further is the sudden arrival of Isles's ex-husband, Victor, a humanitarian with his own suspicious connection to the case, and Rizzoli's old flame, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, who's responsible for the baby now growing in Rizzoli's belly. This is Gerrtisen's best book yet. I can't wait for her next!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Great Book. This is a great follow up to The Apprentice. Tess is a great author and I look forward to seeing more from her in the future.
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Summary: Not her best work
Review: I am a Tess Gerritsen fan. I enjoy her writing style, her plots, her twists, her characters. But "The Sinner" fell flat for me. In an attempt to twist the plot, she introduces characters that have absolutely no bearing on the book -- at all. The characters appear, have their say, then leave, never to be seen again. She makes feeble attempts to start a plot line (case in point the relationship between Maura and Brophy), then doesn't do anything with it. This book had the makings of a good story, but she didn't go far enough to develop it, so it left me flat and wanting more. In all, this deserves three stars. Not her best, not her worst.
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Summary: Wordiness kills this story
Review: I'll keep it short and to the point. The story itself would be OK, but this book is so incredibly wordy, I found myself saying "shut up and get on with it" too often. The author details everything, and what's worse, is redundant. I don't need to hear that the priest has strikingly blue eyes every time he's injected into the story. The story is further damaged by the reading of Dennis Boutsikaris. Any sentence that started with "yes" or "no" was articulated ridiculously. Nobody talks like that and it gets very irritating very quickly listening to someone read like this. I only finished these CD's because I invested too much time listening to the first 3 while giving it a chance. Strip away all of the nonsense and tell the story with a little more precision and it would be a pretty good book. But with the extreme excessive wordiness, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Tess Gerritsen does it again
Review: I read all three books in this series - The Surgeon, The Apprentice and now, The Sinner. I like how Gerritsen weaves in characters and storylines from the previous books into the subsequent one, making it flow from one novel to the next. It took me longer to read this one than the other two, but I'm in school now so it could be I just didn't have as much time. I had it for a week. I was sad when I did finally finish it. I hope #4 is on the way soon. :)
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Summary: JUST OKAY!!!
Review: The story starts out like gangbangers and then for some reason the author gets into a little to much about the personal lives of the medical examiner DR. Isles and Detective Rizzoli, which I think takes away from the story. It's not a bad story and there are some really excellent parts, but this is not Tess Gerritsen at her best.
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Summary: The Sinner
Review: Certainly not one of Gerritsen's best books. The story line spends too much time going into the personal lives of the medical examiner and Jane the detective. I kept reading to find out if / how the totally unrelated crimes where related. This is the saving part of the book.
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