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beckiewhite2's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
It's a good story, however some of the language and attitudes are apparent from the publishing year 1988 so it does have a smattering of misogyny, Racism, fat phobia and homophobia that are accepted and go completely unchecked.
eserafina42's review against another edition
3.0
This book is definitely the literary equivalent of junk food, and now, after racing through the last 100 pages or so, I feel stuffed, a little sick, and slightly guilty. It definitely pushes all the buttons - evil corporation putting profits over people; sibling rivalry; mistreated patients who, including our hero's instalove, may die if everything doesn't pan out just right - but I don't really care to have it done so blatantly. My main problem is that the villain, whose identity you can figure out in the first couple of chapters, is so evil, so totally lacking in every human feeling, that I couldn't even really hate him. He was so two-dimensional as to be unbelievable - if only he'd had a mustache he could have twirled it, and he pretty much did do the medical equivalent of tying our heroine to a railroad track. This is an early Michael Palmer and I haven't read his later ones, but I sure do hope that he learned to tone it down a bit.
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Her virtually instant recovery from a massive trauma at the end was equally unbelievable.ruenicorn's review
4.0
The BOOK was wonderful, but the Kindle edition is full of typos and I'm not super happy about paying $6 for bad publishing. :( I took a course in ebook formatting and I do know it is not that hard to be typo free.
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