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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Shock by Robin Cook was awesome. I love to read Robin Cook's work. Being a medical doctor himself, he has the ability to write about the medical profession in a fictional way that makes it more believable. In this particular novel, we have two young women who donate eggs to an infertility clinic, but then become curious as to whether or not children were ever born from those eggs. Using subterfuge, they gain access to the records, and let's just say, there was a lot more than meets the eye to that clinic! This is a definite page turner and I suggest this book highly to anyone who likes medical mystery/thriller/horror novels. My only regret about the book is that the women's status at the end of the book was unclear. ( )Well this was dumb. I enjoy CJ Critt’s narrations, so it wasn’t bad to listen to on that end, but the plot was just stupid. Why did these women go back? Because they were curious and thought they had a right to know what happened to their eggs. So they come up with this stupid scheme to get jobs at the clinic. They take the names and social security numbers of a couple of dead women and use those. But what trips them up is the fact that they used Deborah’s car. When the security guard guy checks it out, he sees that it isn’t registered to Georgina Marx, but this other woman. They shouldn’t have laid open that easily. The drama, suspense and/or terror just didn’t pay off either. There was hardly any build up for it and when it was finally revealed that one of the doctors was cloning himself and implanting the embryos in various women and even in pigs, it just didn’t seem scary. The dialogue was pretty lame too. No one outside of a 1950s sit-com would talk like that. Yuk. This was a great read. Robin Cook brings a great storyline to life that keeps you guessing what is really happening, and leaves you going whoa! Robin Cook delivers once again. Barely believable characters in a cloning situation at a fertility clinic - story had some redeeming qualities. Pairing: Inui x Kaidoh Rating: PG Pages: 26 no reviews | add a review
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As in past books, Cook is much better at the technical details of medical research than he is at characterization, but he definitely knows how to plot a thriller. This one keeps you turning the pages until the final denouement, though the last chapter ends abruptly, leaving the reader to wonder whether he ran out of steam or is just setting up a sequel in which he'll recycle the villains in a new scheme with a new pair of victims. --Jane Adams
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