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“IFound the first three chapters hard going and nearly put the book away, then remembered how much i enjoyed Tess Gerritsen books so I persevered. I was glad i did, I found the book interesting and a bit scary! Makes you wonder what is going on in space and if there is other life forms, and are we kept in the dark about experiments that are carried out!”
Sheila L wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This book was my first introduction to Tess Gerritsen. Read this years ago...
Dez wrote this review Monday, November 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Still one of my favorites from her.”
“A little slow in places but I was glad I stayed with this one...”
Molly B wrote this review Monday, October 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“very good, and an interesting yet feasible idea.”
Maria T wrote this review Thursday, September 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This one was okay. Out of the ones I've read by Gerritsen, this is not my favorite. I enjoy her medical suspense that's a little more realistic (aliens? no thank you). I will admit that parts of the book had me, and I was reading fast to try and figure out what was going to happen next, but for the most part it as confusing. She has three storylines going, and I kept wondering when she was going to bring them all together. ”
Christin wrote this review Sunday, December 7 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A very cool and fast-paced read. It's part medical thriller, part X-files and such a fun ride of a book. I highly suggest it”
BenLarken wrote this review Tuesday, September 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“ Tess Gerritson is such a skillful, knowledgeable writer of medical thrillers that this book surprised me with what appears to be a similarly knowledgeable book about space travel. Astronauts trapped on the space station while a strange virus runs rampant. They are running out of time. The government has decided to let them die rather than attempt a rescue because of the danger if the disease--whatever it is--should get loose on earth.
basykes wrote this review Friday, August 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Only Dr. Jack McCallum, about-to-be ex-husband of Emma Watson, the space station doctor, cares about rescue, but can he do it and will he be in time?
Probably isn't a 5-star, but definitely a 4-1/2 star. Gerritson is that kind of writer.”
“Scary story set in space. It is definitely not a science fiction as I first feared. Some segments of this novel are rather gross but I could not put this book down, it was great.”
Kewpie wrote this review Thursday, June 26 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I felt the relationship was shortchanged in this book. If you have a divorcing couple as your main characters, I think their condition deserves deeper consideration than a few dismissive "but I don't want to get divorced" remarks. Otherwise, it was a decent read, but I don't see why the two people had to be divorcing. I think the book would have been better if they weren't, if they were deeply in love and admitted it.”
Kassiana wrote this review Monday, June 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Synopsis: Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack, McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station. Once aboard the space station, however, things start to go terribly wrong. A culture of single-celled organisms known as Archaeons, gathered from the deep sea, is to be monitored in the microgravity of space. The true and lethal nature of this experiment has not been revealed to NASA. In space, the cells rapidly multiply and soon begin to infect the crew-with agonizing and deadly results. A recovery attempt ends in catastrophe; the NASA shuttle crashes, and the space station is left dangerously crippled. Emma struggles to contain the deadly microbe, while back home, Jack and NASA work against the clock to retrieve Emma from space. But there will be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Earth's population as well, and the astronauts are left stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station-where they are dying one by one… ”
Jenny W wrote this review Tuesday, May 27 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
