3/5: The flat characters will make you regret reading the second half of the book. Other wise, an OK read.
AUTHOUR(S):
- Dr Robin Cook
Premise: After dumping her fiancé/boyfriend, Joanna Meissner is left to ponder over how to finance her studies at Harvard. Her best friend and roomie Deborah Cochrane shows her a printed ad' of the Wingate infertility clinic offering $45,000 to young, healthy women willing to donate their eggs. Everything goes smoothly, and the women go to Venice to finish their studies, their curiosity of how their eggs are faring mounting. Two years later, they return to the USA and find more than they reckoned for.
Overall: The book is very promising at first; organ theft, cloning, bioethics, unregulated "Research," et cetera. But, as one reaches the half point of the book, the shallowness and general lack of humanity in the characters becomes more and more clear. Curiosity, greed, and lust are the most prominent emotions in this book, and most of the time seem to be the only emotions in the book. While the issues touched upon are very interesting, the characters are so detestably flat and the open ending so much of an anticlimax (and I like open endings!) that I can't help but wish I had never finished the latter half of the book.
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