Yet another read from Tess Gerristen, this is the first one however I'm not too sure that I was a fan of. This is one of her medical suspense stand alone books, however it seemed so far-fetched at times to pass for science fiction. It is about Dr. Toby Harper that is trying to figure out why elderly Alzheimer's patients from the same retirement home start dying mysteriously at a fast rate, all with the same symptoms. She discovers they have all chosen to receive a hormone that prolongs life, which comes from fetal cells. That's where the weird part comes in, as the cells from purposely deformed and grotesque human fetus are produced for this purpose. When it goes into detail of one of these creatures, it honestly had my stomach churning as it describes a two-limbed, cyclopes, one toothed, bundle of skin and hair. Gross. I'm just hoping her other medical suspense books rise far above this one.
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