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Summary: My wife, a VERY tough critic, raved!! Great entertainment.
Review: I have not read this book but I plan to. I'm an SF reader. My wife is the mystery afficionado in the family. But, according to her, this book blends the two genres beautifully. She ripped through it in about six hours and was so hungry for more that she drove immediately to a brick-and-mortar bookstore for more Tess Gerritsen. That's a good enough recommendation for me!
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Summary: Another winner by Gerritsen
Review: This is the third book I've read by Tess Gerritsen. And like the others it is a great read. This book has it all--it is a medical thriller, sci-fi,and suspense novel all in one. I thought all these elements were pulled together nicely by the author. I have also enjoyed her other novels, Harvest and Bloodstream. I do recommend all of them. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: What a ride!!
Review: I have read this book twice. If you want a rollercoaster of a ride that mixes action, romance & an ending that it will keep you on the edge of your seat, stop reading this & get this book ASAP, you wont regret it.
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Summary: Gripping novel turns to MUSH!
Review: This book starts off fantastically. You don't have to spend any time whatsoever trying to get into it. Gerritsen makes you feel as if you're a member of staff at the Johnson Space Center. You feel as if you are one of them with all the acronyms flying around. If I had to describe this book I would say that it is OUTBREAK in space but better. I really got the creeps while reading this book and found myself staying up till all hours of the morning. This book is definitely worth the price, believe me you won't regret it. However, the only problem with Gravity is that it gets extremely sappy towards the end and us macho men out there might find it pretty difficult to stomach.
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Summary: Gravity
Review: Gravity, a great book for all medical fiction adorers. I, being a 12 year old reader got sucked into the book as if I were on the Space Station, under the sea, or being blasted into space. This book is very descriptive and it really takes you whereever the author is writing about. I am now reading Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen, I've had the same reaction, I got pulled in and can't get out until the end of the book. Tess Gerritsen is a wonderful author, I plan on reading all of her books!
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Summary: Tess, Tess, you're the bes....thriller author .
Review: I don't want to give away too much but with one hero on the ground and one in space, this makes for a great novel. Not only is Tess Gerritsen one of the best Thriller novelists on earth, but her knowledge of the space program is incredible. (Who knows how she got NASA to help her with the intense research.) She mentions things I've never even thought of including medical emergencies at zero gravity.....Frightening!! And I'm not talkin' about tummy upset from drinking too much tang. If there's only one thriller you pick up this summer, make it GRAVITY. You can thank me later.
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Summary: Gravity Delivers
Review: Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" is a medical thriller that really does deliver lots of suspense and thrills, with only a few problems. Emma Watson is a research physician who, after years of training, is finally granted a chance to study living organisms in a NASA space station. Her maiden voyage is quickly spoiled, however, when a nasty group of organisms from the sea are discovered aboard the station, causing terror and death among the crew. Was this an accident or bio-terrorism? That is the question that runs throughout the entire book, keeping millions of reader up at all hours of the night. "Gravity" is a very good thriller with many strong points and only one weak one. The characters are written very well. Gerritsen has gone to a lot of effort to clearly define the characters and how they think, act, and feel. That in itself is refreshing. I was also very impressed with the medical/biological aspect of the book, which is not too technical for the average medical idiot like me. The suspense and thrills are very good and kept me turning the pages. The only negative for me is the relationship between Emma and her ex-husband Jack. The relationship is a key point in the story, but I found it extremely predictable. Even with this flaw, I found the story exciting.
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Summary: Pack plenty of eye drops when you visit the ISS
Review: "All at once his body went rigid. The wetness had slid beneath the edge of the cap. It was now squirming towards his ear. Not a droplet of water, not a stray trickle, but something that moved with purpose. Something alive... He thrashed left, then right, trying to dislodge it. He banged hard on his (space) helmet. And still he felt it moving, sliding under his comm assembly... He caught dizzying glimpses of earth, then black space, then earth again, as he flailed and twisted around in a frantic dance ... The wetness slithered into his ear." Bummer. Makes you want to swear off space walks. According to the jacket of Tess Gerritsen's GRAVITY, Dr. Emma Watson finds herself aboard the International Space Station (ISS) facing a zero-gravity experiment gone bad, a culture of single-celled organisms run amok. The crew is infected one by one, with fatal results. The world's population is put at risk. The ISS is quarantined. O dear, how does our heroine survive and get home? After the first third or so of this thriller, I was tempted to put it down, and write it off as a two-star effort. Too many of the elements seemed tired, potentially leading to a predictable plot. Beautiful, hotshot young doctor rockets into orbit before being able to sign divorce papers. Her estranged husband, also a hotshot physician, is an astronaut permanently grounded because of kidney stones. (He still loves her, of course.) A maverick U.S. company has developed a quick-turnaround alternative to the space shuttle. And, while the first prototype blew up on launch, the second is untested, but, hey, ready to fly. A mysterious, Southern California (where else?) research outfit that owns the haywire experiment knows more than it's telling. I admit that I'm probably jaded, but puhleeze! Then the monster, so to speak, gets loose, and people starting dying in the most horrific manner. I mean, if you wake up some morning after an all night bender, look into the mirror and notice a severe case of bloodshot eyes, then you may as well run screaming into the street because you're not going to have a good week. Trust me. While the storyline remained, as feared, fairly predictable, the Archaeon organism was so scary (and yucky!) that I was drawn into the plot almost against my will. So, Tess pulls out of her nosedive in the knick of time, and I'm happy to award 4 stars. Nice job!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is incredable. I've read it numerous times, and it's definantly become one of my favorites. This sci-fi thriller keeps you on your toes from page to page. Never have I though that a few pages of paper could be so entertaining. I highly recommend this book. (Note: if you like this book you'll love Tess Gerritsen's other books along with Ender's Game)
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Summary: Solid, entertaining SF/THRILLER
Review: This was my first Tess Gerritsen book and overall I was impressed. Probably my favorite technique in sc-fi thrillers is leading the audience into thinking that they know exactly what is going on and then suddenly take a u-turn--and Gerritsen does this wonderfully in GRAVITY. The story moves at breakneck speed and I read the whole book in about 4 hours. I only had a few problems--wasn't crazy for the estranged couple storyline. It felt too cliched to me. I know its important to create conflict between your main characters, but I just felt this was an easy out. I also thought that one of the major foreshadowings of the plot was extremely obvious and probably could have been handled better. These problems, however, are relatively minor. In the end, GRAVITY will definitely hold you in its quite formidable spell.
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