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Title: Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 0-671-01676-8 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (67 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Lots of Action with Involved Plot Amid Weak Writing
Comment: This book is very unusual. I found it very difficult to get through the first 100 pages because the horror aspects were so gruesome and seemingly gratuitous. Then the plot seemed to be pointless. But a medical emergency scene came in that was quite good, and then another. After a few hundred pages, the plot got better and the horror less gruesome. The final 50 pages were absorbing to read. This makes grading difficult. I gave the beginning a one-star, the end a four-star, the medical emergencies a five-star, and the bulk of the dialogue and portrayal of the town of Tranquility, Maine a one-star. Unless you are dying for a horror-medical mystery, I suggest you skip this one. Ms. Gerritsen can write emergency room scenes quite well, but regular dialogue is difficult for her to do smoothly and make interesting. There's a lot more dialogue in this book than emergency room scenes.
Dr. Claire Elliott moves to Tranquility, Maine with her teenage son, Noah, to get away from the evils of the big city, Baltimore. She soon finds that she is shunned as an outsider, assumed to be incompetent, losing patients and money, and unable to make headway against a mystery disease. All of this seems to tie together into something that has been going on for hundreds of years. What is it?
The conflicts between the characters are pretty predicatable, so it is impressive that Ms. Gerritsen can keep the mystery working through the obvious plot complications and setbacks. You can figure out the mystery though. There are many clues, decently scattered at large intervals along the way, but it is a fairly interesting premise as medical mysteries go. The medical mystery solution made me glad that I finished the book.
After you read this book, you should think about what you can do to be more friendly and cooperative with other people. Many chances to have a more beneficial and positive relationship are lost when both sides aren't open enough. Assume the best about the other person's motives and competence, and you'll be pleasantly surprised to find out how often you are correct.
Build a better world, one relationship at a time!
Rating: 1
Summary: Ban-gor, not Bang-er
Comment: Anyone who has spent any time in Maine will quickly realize that the mispronunciation of Bangor is only one of the many ways that Bloodstream fails to accurately capture the essence of Maine. Combine that with the convoluted, highly unbelievable plot and subsequent resolution, and the unrealistic characters (Amelia, the 14-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family thinks and behaves like a well-adjusted adult) and this is one book I hope readers will skip. Maine deserves better.
Rating: 5
Summary: A SPINE TINGLING READING
Comment: For those who fancy their thrillers fraught with forensic detail and mixed with medical information best-selling author Tess Gerritsen (Harvest and Life Support) has proffered another page turner.
Heroine Dr. Clair Elliot is attempting to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. Her predicament and the challenges that follow are vividly traced by champion voice performer Jan Maxwell.
Primary in Clair's mind is her 14-year-old son, Noah. It is with his good in mind that she chooses a small town, Tranquility, Maine, as the perfect spot to relocate. There, she reasons her impressionable son will be removed from the potentially damaging influences of big city Baltimore.
We mentioned that the name of the town is "Tranquility" - what a misnomer! It's not long before teenage violence is running rampant through these once quiet streets. It seems that such an episode occurs once every half century. What causes this, could the culprit be a supernatural force?
Claire works in tandem with the local police chief in order to solve this mystery.
Another home run for author Gerritsen and one more listenable chiller for audio audiences.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: Harvest by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 067155302X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Life Support by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 0671553046 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gravity : A Novel of Medical Suspense by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 0671016776 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Surgeon by TESS GERRITSEN ISBN: 0345447840 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Keeper Of The Bride by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 1551669358 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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