The idea of this story is so good...until the last 40ish pages...oh well ( )

The historical mystery half of the plot (well, maybe more like a third) was much more interesting than the rest, and the only believable part. Sorry, just couldn't swallow the premise. ( )

Oh, what horrors evolve from applying pure commercial profit to medical care. Beware the money men in lab coats. A story ahead of its time. ( )

So strange to read this now when there are so many potential and yes, horrible, changes for women coming with the banning of abortion decision coming down soon. When this book was written, 1994, the main character....Kim....was comparing her freedoms as a woman to those of her ancestor's back in the late1600s. Really incredible to read this right NOW. I have read and loved all of the books that I've read by Robin Cook. I hope he is writing a book about the current situation facing women as we seem to be going backwards in time! I found this story fascinating--he is so good at making his characters live, moving with enough detail so that you can picture what jeu are doing in your mind. ( )

Review: Acceptable Risk by Robin Cook.

This book has many twist and turns. What a reader may think it’s a romance but soon turns out the reader is lead towards a medical quest and with traveling through a trip in history with an insight into a woman accused of witchcraft. The story brings the reader to the end in pure horror. This author has written many intriguing books that are hard to put down. There are some interesting questions lingering throughout the book, mainly the pros, cons and ethical implication of altering someone’s personality through drugs.

It’s about the Stewart family who live in Massachusetts and the story about their distant ancestors especially Elizabeth Stewart, whom through generations has been hidden in the past and told to never talk about the event or rumor about their persecuting of family members who were hung for practicing witchcraft in Salem in 1692. In the present Kimberly Stewart, a surgical nurse in Cambridge has decided to search for history about her family in a castle and land still there abandoned years ago and was left to her and her brother.

Than one day Kimberly found evidence that revealed in letters and files left in the castle over many years that the cause of the witch panic could be related to something other than the town of Salem knew. The story was very intriguing and plenty of events that kept the reader fascinated with great interest. ( )