Shock

by Robin Cook

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this "infectious medical thriller" (Kirkus Reviews) from the renowned author of Coma, two young women, curious about their donated eggs, uncover a plot more sinister than either of them could have imagined. . . .

"Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death."--Los Angeles Times

Graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 042518286X
• ISBN13: 9780425182864
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Ended Early

Wow this was very disappointing. I stopped reading about 1/4 through because it was so boring and got inappropriate (having a 3 way), gross! Sorry I can’t recommend it :(

SHOCK BY robin Cook

I cannot adequately review this book because IT WAS WRITTEN IN SPANISH AND I NEITHeR SPEAK NOR READ SPANISH.

Beware classified ads for "egg donors"

If you read the classifieds of the trendy little weeklies you've probably seen the ads for bright, healthy young women to "donate eggs" to help a childless couple. SHOCK starts out with this scenario and takes you on a whirlwind of "The Egg and I" that would make Betty MacDonald faint. Nefarious doings at a fertility clinic, cloning, gestating human fetuses in third world servant women and a great deal worse! I loved the two Harvard heroines who tackle the mad doctors at the clinic... fast pace doesn't let up. If you've got ovaries or love someone who does, this is a book that will keep you turning the pages.

Fast reading

This is a fast book to read, is not exactly a medical thriller until the last third of the book but it will keep you interested in the story, the way that Joanna and Deborah solve their problem at the end of the book was a little bit naive, but you have another end?If this book could be real or not is not the problem, the problem is that I really know women that can't have children and they do anything to have them without thinking the consequences, and if a woman can have some money that she really needs maybe she will give some of her "eggs" with out thinking that maybe the doctor will do something to her body.

Blown Away!!!!!

I picked this book out of a pile of other murder/suspense/thrillers because the medical aspect of it intrigued me. Little did I know that this would be one of my favorite books of all time. From the moment you read the first sentence you are sucked into the story. You read the book not as just a viewer on the outside, but Cook makes you feel as if you were there with the characters. He is so detailed that you can picture the surrounding just like they would be. His writing is fluent yet a 12-year-old could read it in two weeks. Robin Cook is one of the best writers I have ever read. I encourage everyone to read this book.

IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN

The sinister tone of the prologue lets you know you are in for a dark look at the possibilities of egg retrieval and cloning. Deborah Cochrane and Joannna Meissner, roommates and fellow Harvard grad students, answer an ad to donate eggs (for a hefty price of $45,000 each.) After their year-and-half stay in Venice completing their theses, they return to their recently purchased condo in Boston, all financed with the proceeds of their donations. Curious about their progeny from the egg donation, they set out to learn about their children. The Wingate Clinic has strict confidentiality rules, however, so they devise a clever plan to change their identities and pose as job seekers at the clinic. Their plan is hilarious, and along with the great suspense, I fell in love with the characters! The girls were just so naive, but had such a good time throughout the book. I read it in one day. It was impossible to put down!