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Life Blood
A terrifying medical thriller in the bestselling tradition of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. It lies hidden deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America. A place where a brilliant fertility doctor fulfills dreams for some – and creates chilling nightmares for others. Now, filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey straight into the heart of a dark conspiracy. Where a bizarre human experiment comes at a terrible price, and where she may be the next to pay with her . . . LIFE BLOOD.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2000
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Thomas Hoover
31 books23 followersThomas Hoover has a doctorate in oceanography and served as senior vice president of an architect-engineering firm in New York, where he has lived for several decades. His vices include being an avid sailor and a recognized collector of the classical music of India. He began his writing career with two classic non-fiction books on Far Eastern art and religion and then moved into fiction writing with two critically acclaimed novels about English sailors in the early Seventeenth century.
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October 9, 2022
It lies deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America. A place where a brilliant fertility doctor fulfils dreams for some - and creates chilling nightmares for others. Now, filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey straight into the heart of a dark conspiracy. Where a bizarre human experiment comes at a terrible price, and where she might be the next to pay with her.... life blood.
I quite enjoyed this book even though the main character is very annoying, and the plotline is predictable. This is a quick and easy to follow read. The story is loosely based on a screenplay about adoption and Morgan's desperation to get it finished. It did seem to take a dip in the middle, but it soon picked up again.
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I quite enjoyed this book even though the main character is very annoying, and the plotline is predictable. This is a quick and easy to follow read. The story is loosely based on a screenplay about adoption and Morgan's desperation to get it finished. It did seem to take a dip in the middle, but it soon picked up again.
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January 16, 2012
Morgan Smyth James is a 38 year-old movie-maker who wants one thing: a baby. The problem is, she's invested years, time and money into the baby-making process, yet the cries she hears in the nursery are only in her dreams. So she sets off to make a movie about adoption, whereby she falls into a spiraling whirlpool of deceipt, betrayal, and conspiracy involving smarmy doctors and foreign military thugs.
I liked the charachter, Morgan, and though he doesn't play a largely active role in the book, I liked her boyfriend, Steve. The characters have depth, a down-to-earth real relationship, fraught with conflict and happiness.
But for me the book was long. Too long. The author could have cut a 1/3 from this book and had a smoother, better-paced read. Much of the first 1/4 of the book is filled with back-story and info dumps (this is where I would have taken out my axe and started chopping). Nothing slows down a story more than info dumps. To be honest, I just wasn't interested. I didn't care. The author even prefaced some of these info dumps by stating it was coming..."A little history here..." Beep, beep, beep! Take cover, the garbage truck is a'coming and it's unloading.
Also, and this may just have been to show off the author's technical prowess, but pages of movie-lingo was thrown about, complete with staff members' jobs and names...which would have been great if they had any bearing on the story. Most of them didn't. It just kept me flipping back pages to figure out who was being referenced. Most of these people disappeared before the mid-way point, so really, what was the point? None.
Even when the author hit stride and the story moved along at a rabbit's pace, little birdies would come along and peck at us, dropping little backstory tidbits that weren't necessary and interrupted pacing. And the constant internal questioning by Morgan had me hearing voices in my head. I wanted her to shut up and let me think for a minute. I can think for myself. I can ask questions while I'm reading. Don't feed them to me and please don't tell me what to think. I'd rather think something and be wrong. Red herrings, people, are what makes stories go round.
Speaking of surprises, this story was a little weak in that regard. 2 things struck me as being very transparent. The first was a betrayal. There was NO SURPISE regarding this betrayal. The author peppered the betrayal with broad hints. He may as well have just told us outright. This story would have been better served if the betrayal came as a complete and utter surprise. A face-palm to the forehead, I-never-saw-that-coming kind of surprise. I *want*, *long*, *wish* to be blindsided when reading. I would have loved that. Instead, I was more like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. No surprise there."
Second, I'd solved the whole medical mystery before the mid-way point. It was fairly transparent, so I wasn't nearly as surprised at the end as Morgan was. I guess when you're living the reality, things just aren't as in-your-face as they are to the reader. I guess most readers are not so easily fooled. I guess when writing you should keep that in mind.
Overall, the book wasn't a bad read, but it wasn't a great read either.
I liked the charachter, Morgan, and though he doesn't play a largely active role in the book, I liked her boyfriend, Steve. The characters have depth, a down-to-earth real relationship, fraught with conflict and happiness.
But for me the book was long. Too long. The author could have cut a 1/3 from this book and had a smoother, better-paced read. Much of the first 1/4 of the book is filled with back-story and info dumps (this is where I would have taken out my axe and started chopping). Nothing slows down a story more than info dumps. To be honest, I just wasn't interested. I didn't care. The author even prefaced some of these info dumps by stating it was coming..."A little history here..." Beep, beep, beep! Take cover, the garbage truck is a'coming and it's unloading.
Also, and this may just have been to show off the author's technical prowess, but pages of movie-lingo was thrown about, complete with staff members' jobs and names...which would have been great if they had any bearing on the story. Most of them didn't. It just kept me flipping back pages to figure out who was being referenced. Most of these people disappeared before the mid-way point, so really, what was the point? None.
Even when the author hit stride and the story moved along at a rabbit's pace, little birdies would come along and peck at us, dropping little backstory tidbits that weren't necessary and interrupted pacing. And the constant internal questioning by Morgan had me hearing voices in my head. I wanted her to shut up and let me think for a minute. I can think for myself. I can ask questions while I'm reading. Don't feed them to me and please don't tell me what to think. I'd rather think something and be wrong. Red herrings, people, are what makes stories go round.
Speaking of surprises, this story was a little weak in that regard. 2 things struck me as being very transparent. The first was a betrayal. There was NO SURPISE regarding this betrayal. The author peppered the betrayal with broad hints. He may as well have just told us outright. This story would have been better served if the betrayal came as a complete and utter surprise. A face-palm to the forehead, I-never-saw-that-coming kind of surprise. I *want*, *long*, *wish* to be blindsided when reading. I would have loved that. Instead, I was more like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. No surprise there."
Second, I'd solved the whole medical mystery before the mid-way point. It was fairly transparent, so I wasn't nearly as surprised at the end as Morgan was. I guess when you're living the reality, things just aren't as in-your-face as they are to the reader. I guess most readers are not so easily fooled. I guess when writing you should keep that in mind.
Overall, the book wasn't a bad read, but it wasn't a great read either.
June 16, 2011
Got this free for my amazon kindle. It started well and drew my in with the storyline and mix of characters. It seemed to fall away for me around three quarters of the way through. Whilst I appreciate it's fiction it just started to get silly in terms of our heroine seemingly being able to do anything despite what odds were against her. I found myself reading the last few chapters quick to try and finish the book and move on. Shame. Cant complain for free though.
June 18, 2022
I found this authors style of writing just irritating and it ruined the story for me. First of all there was a part where Paula didn’t want to wear makeup and our female protagonist supposedly thought “a bit of war paint every now and then might help your chances of landing a father for this child” …when the documentary she was making featured single mothers who adopted!! It was a very misogynistic thing to think and for me made me doubt Morgan’s credibility. It pulled me out of the story and reminded me she was written by a man. The author also had an annoying habit of peppering his writing with French phrases such as “et tu?” “Bon vivant” and Pas de deux… since there was no mention of Morgan (an American) being a Francophone, this just felt unnecessary and like the author was showing off. There were conversations held in Spanish which weren’t automatically translated by the author and which I didn’t bother to translate because I just wasn’t that interested in the book.
The book was poorly written and entirely cheesy at times such as when Morgan was “becoming energised by the prospect of progress, and that always makes me ravenous. It’s probably a primal female response that has a Latin name” after she had been all but starving herself for days in the search for knowledge about children of light that’s not a primal FEMALE response - dude it’s called starvation and starvation makes any human ravenous!!
And when Morgan manages to remove a doorknob and open a door in a way she had seen Steve do previously:
“Maybe we just think mens mechanical skills are genetically hard-wired. Maybe it’s a secret plot to elicit awe” NEWS FLASH this is the 21st century! Women do their own handiwork and most of us don’t feel awe when watching men do diy. Get in touch with real women and how women really think or don’t bother writing a book from a woman’s perspective!!
My final irritation with this book was that during an in vitro operation the book stated “seconds later all three embryos had been implanted with such flawless precision it was scary”. TRANSFERRED. The embryos were transferred. Implantation takes place 1-5 days after transferral IF AT ALL - that’s why ivf can fail!!! This is BASIC IVF knowledge. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Inaccuracy takes from your credibility and just spoiled my enjoyment of the storyline.
Plus i saw the ending coming a mile off. I would be hesitant to read any more of Hoovers work.
The book was poorly written and entirely cheesy at times such as when Morgan was “becoming energised by the prospect of progress, and that always makes me ravenous. It’s probably a primal female response that has a Latin name” after she had been all but starving herself for days in the search for knowledge about children of light that’s not a primal FEMALE response - dude it’s called starvation and starvation makes any human ravenous!!
And when Morgan manages to remove a doorknob and open a door in a way she had seen Steve do previously:
“Maybe we just think mens mechanical skills are genetically hard-wired. Maybe it’s a secret plot to elicit awe” NEWS FLASH this is the 21st century! Women do their own handiwork and most of us don’t feel awe when watching men do diy. Get in touch with real women and how women really think or don’t bother writing a book from a woman’s perspective!!
My final irritation with this book was that during an in vitro operation the book stated “seconds later all three embryos had been implanted with such flawless precision it was scary”. TRANSFERRED. The embryos were transferred. Implantation takes place 1-5 days after transferral IF AT ALL - that’s why ivf can fail!!! This is BASIC IVF knowledge. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Inaccuracy takes from your credibility and just spoiled my enjoyment of the storyline.
Plus i saw the ending coming a mile off. I would be hesitant to read any more of Hoovers work.
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April 1, 2020
Wasn’t quite as good as I thought it would be. Morgan makes documentaries and her current one deals with adoption. She gets sucked into the story. To me it was completely obvious what was happening. Not to mention, Morgan was completely clueless about the danger she was in. I stayed with it just to to see if I was right.
May 23, 2021
Wild ride
This was another very creative book that I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend. You will be caught up in the intrigue of a foreign land and its people.
This was another very creative book that I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend. You will be caught up in the intrigue of a foreign land and its people.
December 19, 2023
Average and predictable. Dense and annoying heroine. Okish
April 1, 2019
Fun read
This book is a fun and easy read. No deep thinking required. The premise is unique and made me want to find out how everything turns out.
This book is a fun and easy read. No deep thinking required. The premise is unique and made me want to find out how everything turns out.
February 18, 2023
Meandering storyline. Wasn't able to understand some of plot. But interesting premise. Was unsure why she wouldn't keep Sarah's baby. She could very well be carrying Goddard's baby as well. Doesn't she owe Steven that info?
May 28, 2017
Multifaceted
Goes in more than one direction... You think you are following one person, then a new person is added. Then you find out the plot includes both of them
Goes in more than one direction... You think you are following one person, then a new person is added. Then you find out the plot includes both of them
April 1, 2014
I read another of Hoover's ebooks, 'Syndrome', a while ago and really liked it, so when I saw this one available, I was eager to check it out. Unfortunately, it didn't hold my interest like 'Syndrome' and as I worked towards finishing it the last couple days, I realized I really didn't care how it ended.
In the story, Morgan is a filmmaker trying to balance work on what may be her feature film debut with the heartbreak of being unable to conceive with her longtime boyfriend, who consequently decides to follow his own career path to Central America. Morgan's film involves research into adoption both because the stories of adoptive parents make for a good story and as an option she and Steve may wish to pursue when he returns to the U.S. She meets 2 mothers who have adopted children from a place called Children of Light, which seems too good to be true, as both moms received Caucasian babies within months of applying, for a relatively low cost of adoption. While Morgan has this odd feeling about the place when she realizes how similar the two children look, she decides to pay the organization a visit, and the shadiness keeps building as the director only vaguely answers her questions but is eager to enroll her in his program.
The details Hoover provides as he describes Children of Light and exactly what goes on behind its walls seem to be based more in the spiritual and less in the medical until late in the story (past the point at which I didn't care), and too much about the main story and other subplots intertwined to be anything close to realistic. Certainly less medical than the other book.
The description provided for this book did sound slightly less appealing than that of 'Syndrome', so I feel if I'm going to read more by Hoover, I will have to screen it first to make sure it's actually something that would interest me.
In the story, Morgan is a filmmaker trying to balance work on what may be her feature film debut with the heartbreak of being unable to conceive with her longtime boyfriend, who consequently decides to follow his own career path to Central America. Morgan's film involves research into adoption both because the stories of adoptive parents make for a good story and as an option she and Steve may wish to pursue when he returns to the U.S. She meets 2 mothers who have adopted children from a place called Children of Light, which seems too good to be true, as both moms received Caucasian babies within months of applying, for a relatively low cost of adoption. While Morgan has this odd feeling about the place when she realizes how similar the two children look, she decides to pay the organization a visit, and the shadiness keeps building as the director only vaguely answers her questions but is eager to enroll her in his program.
The details Hoover provides as he describes Children of Light and exactly what goes on behind its walls seem to be based more in the spiritual and less in the medical until late in the story (past the point at which I didn't care), and too much about the main story and other subplots intertwined to be anything close to realistic. Certainly less medical than the other book.
The description provided for this book did sound slightly less appealing than that of 'Syndrome', so I feel if I'm going to read more by Hoover, I will have to screen it first to make sure it's actually something that would interest me.
February 24, 2012
In a word awful. I only managed to get around 20% through this book which is pretty poor. It was incredibly annoying to read. Thomas Hoover I can only assume is a man yet he has chosen to write a female character for his lead and do it in the first person. excellent if you can get into the psyche of the character and make the reader believe she is a real person. Unfortunately 'she' just comes across as a man writing a female character by the numbers, not only that but the way she speaks and thinks is like a 1940's film noir private detective. I couldn't stand it.
Now this next part may be considered a spoiler but as I have only read 20% of the book I don't think it really is.
The lead is written as incredibly stupid she constantly poses the most obvious questions to herself yet doesn't know the answers.
Q. "How could they get a perfect caucasian child for adoption in only a matter of months?"
Okay long shot this one but A. Clone.
Q. "How can two different women have children that look related but are only six months apart in age?"
Okay not so much a long shot anymore. A. Clone! Clone! Clone!
Nope our heroine hasn't got a clue the world she inhabits has clearly sheltered her from such things.
I'm not saying that this is the big reveal of the story as I couldn't stand to read anymore but surely any reasonable person would think hang on..... could these identical looking children adopted by two different women, who look the same but are six months apart in age making it impossible for them to be siblings possibly have been cloned? Apparently not.
Now this next part may be considered a spoiler but as I have only read 20% of the book I don't think it really is.
The lead is written as incredibly stupid she constantly poses the most obvious questions to herself yet doesn't know the answers.
Q. "How could they get a perfect caucasian child for adoption in only a matter of months?"
Okay long shot this one but A. Clone.
Q. "How can two different women have children that look related but are only six months apart in age?"
Okay not so much a long shot anymore. A. Clone! Clone! Clone!
Nope our heroine hasn't got a clue the world she inhabits has clearly sheltered her from such things.
I'm not saying that this is the big reveal of the story as I couldn't stand to read anymore but surely any reasonable person would think hang on..... could these identical looking children adopted by two different women, who look the same but are six months apart in age making it impossible for them to be siblings possibly have been cloned? Apparently not.
July 13, 2014
I read this on my Kindle. It's not the easiest to read as SO many words are hyphenated in error and I found this so infuriating. Also the Chapter number was at the bottom of some pages with the chapter beginning on next page, whole book badly edited for e-reading.
I love medical thrillers. But... This wasn't the best by a long shot.
Morgy a film producer wants to get pregnant and hears about Children of Light, where a woman looking to adopt can have a baby within a couple of months for the sum of $60k. She meets two new adoptive mums & realises their babies are related, yet how can they be, with only months between them. She films the 2 ladies for a documentary she's making and decides to find out more about Dr Alex Goddard who runs Children of Light. This brings her into deepest Guatemala. To search for her cousin Sarah had already gone missing but had turned up, to be re-kidnapped by Guatemalan army and transported back to Children of Light compound. Morgy somehow survives all that is thrown at her (all very unrealistic).
Very long drawn out book, with too much padding. I didn't give up because I wanted to know what happens at the end as she may/may not have survived. At the very end Morgy is pregnant by Steve, her boyfriend, who features on and off thoughout the story. But is she.....
I love medical thrillers. But... This wasn't the best by a long shot.
Morgy a film producer wants to get pregnant and hears about Children of Light, where a woman looking to adopt can have a baby within a couple of months for the sum of $60k. She meets two new adoptive mums & realises their babies are related, yet how can they be, with only months between them. She films the 2 ladies for a documentary she's making and decides to find out more about Dr Alex Goddard who runs Children of Light. This brings her into deepest Guatemala. To search for her cousin Sarah had already gone missing but had turned up, to be re-kidnapped by Guatemalan army and transported back to Children of Light compound. Morgy somehow survives all that is thrown at her (all very unrealistic).
Very long drawn out book, with too much padding. I didn't give up because I wanted to know what happens at the end as she may/may not have survived. At the very end Morgy is pregnant by Steve, her boyfriend, who features on and off thoughout the story. But is she.....
April 14, 2012
I rather enjoyed this novel. The central character was believable and the references to documentary filmaking accurate (I was a doc maker). Secondary characters were less well dealt with, but the mad doctor antagonist was sufficiently greedy and insane, without being a stereotype, to maintain interest in the conflict. Dialogue was good. The premise - without spoiling the plot - was topical, interesting and well defined: I was left in no doubt what was happening although the twists were fairly easy to guess. I think the novel would have benefitted from a sub-plot or two apart from the obvious one. All in all a nicely paced thriller with some small plot holes, but enjoyable to read. So, if you like well-written thrillers and don't mind a a lack of sub-plots, then I can recommend this read.
May 16, 2014
I decided to read this book because I like medical thrillers. While, I enjoyed the book a bit, a lots of the events in the book are just impossible. Morgy also kept making such stupid decisions.
Like really??? Ya'll don't know how 3rd world countries work? You're going to be Rambo and go by yourself without really informing anyone in the states about your "mission" to Guatemala?
Who invites their SO to a place surrounded by military forces. This book was so unrealistic. If you can get past that, it's an okay book.
You know I kept asking myself if a normal human being would make the silly choices Morgy made. I was like sure, I know how reporters are or whatnot. They always want to get the story that'll place them on the map. Still though! so unrealistic.
Like really??? Ya'll don't know how 3rd world countries work? You're going to be Rambo and go by yourself without really informing anyone in the states about your "mission" to Guatemala?
Who invites their SO to a place surrounded by military forces. This book was so unrealistic. If you can get past that, it's an okay book.
You know I kept asking myself if a normal human being would make the silly choices Morgy made. I was like sure, I know how reporters are or whatnot. They always want to get the story that'll place them on the map. Still though! so unrealistic.
June 9, 2011
A great freebie for my Nook!
Thomas Hoover's novel about the difficulties of pregnancy leading to desperate procedures. Enter the alternative medicine pregnancy guru who claims he can perform a miracle if you will only participate in his "program" located in the jungles of Guatamala. Otherwise he will provide you with a beautiful baby to adopt (nevermind they all look alike) for a mere 60K.
Something about this sounds fishy to a film maker desperate to be a mother and dealing with her own personal and family issues as well. She is part investigator, part victim, and definitely not what the doctor ordered.
Fast read and easy to understand. I would recommend!
Thomas Hoover's novel about the difficulties of pregnancy leading to desperate procedures. Enter the alternative medicine pregnancy guru who claims he can perform a miracle if you will only participate in his "program" located in the jungles of Guatamala. Otherwise he will provide you with a beautiful baby to adopt (nevermind they all look alike) for a mere 60K.
Something about this sounds fishy to a film maker desperate to be a mother and dealing with her own personal and family issues as well. She is part investigator, part victim, and definitely not what the doctor ordered.
Fast read and easy to understand. I would recommend!
August 12, 2014
This is about a woman who desperately wants a baby, and is shooting a documentary about adoption. She then stumbles upon a mystery.
In principle, I liked the idea of this story, which is why I persevered, but there are a lot of issues that wouldn't take much to fix (a lot of words like th-is), that really take you away from the story, and did drop it from a 3 star to a 2 star. It also seemed to be very slow in places, with people doing rather odd things.
I would like to give this author another go, as other reviews said this is a weak book, but the other one I have downloaded has the same issues with words, so not sure I would until these were fixed.
In principle, I liked the idea of this story, which is why I persevered, but there are a lot of issues that wouldn't take much to fix (a lot of words like th-is), that really take you away from the story, and did drop it from a 3 star to a 2 star. It also seemed to be very slow in places, with people doing rather odd things.
I would like to give this author another go, as other reviews said this is a weak book, but the other one I have downloaded has the same issues with words, so not sure I would until these were fixed.
September 24, 2015
Ok, I loved the author's other books "The Moghul" and "Caribbee" - Fantastic! And I could not wait to love "Life Blood" as well... But I was greatly disappointed - Greatly! It was certainly not a page-turner - more like a page-skipper. I could not even finish this book and actually had to force myself to read a full quarter of it before deleting it. It seemed like the whole book (well, what I read, anyway) was nothing but long, blah blah blah drawn out pointless and tedious descriptions that i'm sure if i had finished the book would have nothing to do with anything about what the story should have been about. Not Recommended!
January 23, 2012
Summary: Pinnacle 2000 New York filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey straight into the heart of a dark conspiracy, hidden deep in the mist-shrouded Maya rain forest of Central America, where a bizarre human experiment (including a baby factory) comes at a terrible price. In Vitro, Independent Film, Adoption, Fertility, Human Eggs, Guatemala, Peten, Maya, Mayan Pyramid, Vision Serp
Review: I found this book outstanding. It's very long but so good. Morgan, I adored her, and she went through hell and back in this story. It has action, love, etc. I'd recommend this book to anyone.
Review: I found this book outstanding. It's very long but so good. Morgan, I adored her, and she went through hell and back in this story. It has action, love, etc. I'd recommend this book to anyone.
March 18, 2017
As other reviews have mentioned the book started out pretty slow & didn't get interesting till Chapter 20 or so, but when things got down to it it became fairly fast paced & kept my attention till the last page. It wasn't overly thrilling, but it worked well and was uncomplicated and easy to follow. I got this book as a NOOK freebie so I would say that if you can make it through the slow section & can live with the minor formatting & spelling errors it's a decent read. I did consider giving it 3 stars because of the slow start, but decided nah, 4 is good.
February 6, 2012
Mystery, started out good.. about woman making a documentary about adoptions who interviews a woman who adopts a blonde blue eyed baby boy in less than 4 months when every other agengy takes a year or longer... the place she adopted from is a "new age" fertility clinic... I was enjoying the read until it described an IVF procedure.. and it was obvious the author DID NOT do his research... anyways, from that point on it was way too predictable.
December 28, 2011
This book got interesting at the end, but not enough to make up for how long it took to get there. This story could have been told in at least 100 fewer Nook pages. The characters were also not very cimoelling although the author went overboard trying to build sone connection. I was looking for more of a medical thriller with technical sophistication, but as a woman of similar age and ambition, I did like the ending (even with the major questions I was left hanging on.)
February 28, 2012
Hmm...not sure what to say about this book. I guessed what was happening early on, didn't really like the story, but actually had to keep reading until I finished it late last night.
There was a lot of 'as if' moments, which I wouldn't expect so much unless I was reading chick lit.
Apart from that it still left my pretty uneasy - which is normally the sign of a good book. But maybe it was the subject matter I was uneasy about, rather than the book itself.
There was a lot of 'as if' moments, which I wouldn't expect so much unless I was reading chick lit.
Apart from that it still left my pretty uneasy - which is normally the sign of a good book. But maybe it was the subject matter I was uneasy about, rather than the book itself.
January 21, 2012
This started out extremely slow for me because I found the author was trying to provide you with too much plot background. And at the sametime introduce you to too many characters; many of whom really didn't have a main purpose to the storyline. Once you get through the first third of the book the story picks up very quickly. And I could see why this was toted as a "terrifying medical thriller in the bestselling tradition of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook".
March 22, 2012
Hoover's Life Blood is like opening your refrigerator will your most exquisite delights inside. With every chapter satisfying all the senses leaving you wanting more, with a shock twist to leave you to re-think your morale's and beliefs. I particularly enjoyed the writing style as it was easy to pick up and hard to put down,
The only criticism I found was over hyphenating words to create new words out of them, but on the hold brilliant
The only criticism I found was over hyphenating words to create new words out of them, but on the hold brilliant
February 13, 2013
Have you ever read a book and the almost the entire time thought "Why is this main character so STUPID?!" That sort of applies here. I wanted to like Morgan - and sometimes I did - but mostly I kept wondering what the heck she was doing. Of course, if I were in her situation, I'd likely act similarly. I suppose to sum up I'd have to say I liked Syndrome more, but this was still interesting/engaging.
May 14, 2013
I almost gave up on this book and it did take quite a few pages before it got into the good stuff. Once it got going, I had to keep reading and would even think about the plot when I wasn't reading the book. I would read more by this author. What an imagination. I kept thinking that a woman wrote this book and I found it intriguing how a man could think like a woman. This author must be a very sensitive man to be able to do that.
May 22, 2011
Well, you'd think I'd learn from reading the first one but both were free. Another medical type thriller about fertility and adoption. Again, heroine who isn't exactly brilliant and continues to place herself in a position where she gets in bad situations. Silly heroine. I don't believe I'll read another one of these even if it's free.
June 16, 2012
I downloaded it as a free eBook for my Nook. It was perfect for what I wanted, a light summer read. I might have been more disappointed if I had purchased the book as opposed to a freebie. It does take a little while to get to the thrilling moments, but if you like medical type thrillers and just want something light to read this is your book.
April 19, 2016
Very interesting plot. Ending seemed to be missing a paragraph... I thought the last page didn't download. It seemed to be explaining everything, and then left a dangling question, unexpectedly. Actually, a good ending.
Unrealistically believable. The author makes a wild scenario seem likely.
Unrealistically believable. The author makes a wild scenario seem likely.
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