Shock

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 show more 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. show less

Robin Cook's thrillers are always creepy because in the medical world, they are always based on scenarios that either HAVE happened, or are completely believable as COULD happen. In this one, he delves into the world of fertility clinics, egg donors, & turns what should for millions of women be a happy event, into a horror story. This is no deviation from the formula of his that WORKS. This will keep you turning the pages.

Fast moving action story. Characters were unbelievable. Situations were unbelievable. Really enjoyed the fast paced parts of the story. Background setting was a stretch. Sexual situations fit in with the current popular sexual harassment mania, again unbelievable. The 'shock' of the improper medical ethic was most believable part of story.

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.

It's been a while since I read any Robin Cook books, but I recently bought this one. I was quite surprised by the ending. That's not normal for me and Robin Cook books, so I'd count that as a huge plus!

Very entertaining, but probably not what to read if you're undergoing fertility treatment.

Behoorlijk onwaarschijnlijk. Twee hoofdpersonages zijn niet echt type om zo diep te gaan graven.
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Don't waste your time on this book. There is so much wasted space and time that it seems like it will never end. And when you get to the end, I can almost guarantee you'll be dissatisfied with it. I've read or listened to quite a few Robin Cook books; this is by far the worst.