Life Support

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Summary: Page-turner
Review: Talk about a woman that has her world collapsing around her. Really enjoyed it and would recommend to anyone that enjoys a medical triller!

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Summary: OUTSTANDING
Review: The research that the author did prior to finishing this medical thriller undoubtedly made the scientific breakthroughs so believable that you felt it could easily be happening now in real life. I could hardly put the book down and it was full of surprises.

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Summary: Most exciting book I have read so far.
Review: I thought this was a terrific thriller. I could not put it down. One review on the cover says "be prepared to drop all your obligations until you finish". I found this to be very true. I very much enjoyed and I believe you will too.

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Summary: Great read but some disappointment with ending.
Review: Life Support is a very interesting and entertaining novel. It grabs you quickly and holds on. The plot is based upon a technology the author has thoroughly researched; it is presented in a way to make it plausible. The heroine, Toby Harper, is a likeable, if naive character you can root for all the way. I loved this book until the last ten or fifteen pages which include at least one event that makes no sense and exclude at least one badly needed explanation. I get the impression that the author ran out of time, perhaps to meet her publisher's deadline, and just "slapped the ending together." I still recommend the book as great entertainment.

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Summary: A Good Medical Thriller
Review: I liked this book, but I have to admit I was a bit dissappointed. Life Support has a very sturdy and entertaining story line, but it lacks some of the insightfulness of either Crichton or Preston. All in all a good Medical Thriller, but nothing exceptional in my opinion.

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Summary: Top notch suspense! Better than Harvest!
Review: I read this book in one day. Ms. Gerritsen has become a master of the medical suspense novel. I can't wait to read "Bloodstream", which I have already purchased!

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Summary: Exciting book!
Review: This was the first medical/mystery book that I've ever read, and I have to say that I couldn't put it down, honestly. I never thought that a required school Summer Reading book would be so good!

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Summary: Excellent book, read it in one day!
Review: Read Harvest, loved it. My husdand has needed a kidney transplant for two years, and he still does. Read "Life Support"; loved it. It's a wonder that medicine is for the rich. The protagonist, Dr. Toby Harper, (who names a girl Toby?) hung in there, wanted to know why? how come? and actually cared. I could only hope that I have someone like her for a Doctor. It's been a long time since I have read a book in less than a day!

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Summary: Entertaining, but too much angst.
Review: I swear, if something ELSE wrong happened to this woman I was going to throw the book against the wall! For heaven's sake! I can't stand reading repeated angst and this book is chock full of it. Mom has Alzheimers, sisters don't get along, then everything bad happens. It was almost too much. The medical information was almost completely spot on (I caught one goof where she mistook an H&E stain for a PAS stain) and lots of fun to read, though. So, if you can stand a whole lot of angst in your medical thriller, go for it, she's still a lot of fun.

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Summary: Human element makes this medical thriller special
Review: Medical thrillers have come to have a sameness about them: courageous young doctor vs. greedy medical/insurance establishment or unethical experimentation. The relationship of the heroine and her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's, makes her stand out from the other idealistic protagonists. The unusual cause of the symptoms that awaken her suspicions is fresh. Medical scenes in the last third of the novel involving the villains may be too strong for some readers. Kathleen T. Choi, HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD