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Pocket, May 2001, 24.95, 400pp
ISBN: 0671024078
In Washington DC, fast track attorney Beth Convey works a nasty divorce trial as if she is a virtuoso violinist. Beth knows that a success for Ms. Philamee will almost definitely make her a full partner in Edwards and Bonnett. However, at the moment of her triumph, Beth collapses on the courtroom floor and pronounced dead.
Medics arrive and barely revise her as she is rushed to a nearby hospital. Not long afterward, Beth receives a life-saving heart transplant. However, as she recovers, Beth finds her tastes have changed wanting vodka, dark tea, and fresh tomatoes in a style reminiscent of Eastern Europe. She begins to have strange dreams of individuals speaking in Russian including a murder of one of them. As Beth struggles to regain her former life, she wonders if her near death experience has triggered buried memories or has her heart left her with the cellular memory of a murdered Russian figuratively speaking to her from the grave?
Readers will be MESMERIZED with this novel especially when Beth takes front and center as she is a classic Type A personality who the readers will adore. When the story line veers from Beth's reactions and adjustments into a thrilling post Cold War I Spy tale, the audience will question the need for espionage on a FBI-CIA-KGB level. The well-written book clearly showcases Gayle Lynd's storytelling abilities. However, those exciting secondary plots forces the prime theme into a different direction, which hurts the overall novel that works best when centering on Beth's need to know about her donor.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%
Tone of story
- scarey (primal ax-wielding fear)
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
Medical Thriller
Yes
Medical Plotlets:
- cure/disease
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
The antagonists are:
- foreign organized crime
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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