Helpful Score: 7
WOW! As usual this author just blows me away. I only understand about half of the technical stuff but the human interactions seem so honest and descriptions are so realistic I am on the edge of my seat nearly from the first page. Don't miss this one....it's a duzzy!
Helpful Score: 4
This is one of Tess Gerritsen's best books ever. As always, she really develops her characters; in this case, astronauts and others involved in NASA, the International Space Station, and the space program. When a scientific experimentin space goes terribly wrong, it is fascinating to learn how space and ground crews handle life and death situations while experiencing a myriad of human emotions. Into all of this is woven interesting facts about how it feels to blast off into space, and what it's like to live on the space station for an extended period.
Helpful Score: 2
This is her best one yet. A gripping story with characters that are real. Having worked in NASA for years I appreciate the research that was put into this story...it all sounds right on the money. Terrific book; I hated to get to the last page.
Helpful Score: 1
A medical thriller aborad the space station. A expereriment rapidly mutiplies and start to infect the crew. Will they be Quarantined in space forever? Or can something be done to help BEFORE they all die?
Be ready to stay up with this one!!
Be ready to stay up with this one!!
Helpful Score: 1
good thriller with an unusual plot.
Helpful Score: 1
Wow! A great suspense story taking place on the International Space Station. Unique setting, great suspense. This one was an "all-nighter" for me.
Great medical mystery!
This is a gut wrenching medical suspense thriller with lots of blood and guts. Very fast paced. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
A medical suspense novel that is terrifying in it's implications of what might happen. A great read by author Tess Gerritsen.
Good fast medical drama read.
A real page turner. I couldn't put it down. It combines medicine and space along with a little bit of romance.
Slick and very entertaining throughout. A wee bit heavy on the NASA/astronaut worship, but combination of space/medicine does make a fascinating story.
Comgines space, medicine & mystery in one book
Very, very, very good. Pulls you right into space with the characters! Gotta love Tess!
One of Gerritsen's best yet. I missed the movie, but loved the book and do not need to see the movie now. There is no way it would be as good.
The book held my attention with every page and there were no slow areas where the story dragged. In fact, I began reading it around noon yesterday and finished it this morning. Loved it!
I felt as though I learned so much and really appreciated the addition of a Glossary which saved me from many moments of confusion that I might have had had it not been there. I also have a far better understanding and appreciation of NASA and all our wonderful, brave astronauts.
The book held my attention with every page and there were no slow areas where the story dragged. In fact, I began reading it around noon yesterday and finished it this morning. Loved it!
I felt as though I learned so much and really appreciated the addition of a Glossary which saved me from many moments of confusion that I might have had had it not been there. I also have a far better understanding and appreciation of NASA and all our wonderful, brave astronauts.
This is a great book with characters you will love and situations that will keep you turning the page!
This was a great book,fast read.
I really liked this book!
Great book. I felt like I was on the Space Station, but it was not too much detail.
Good story.
Wow. I continue to be amazed by the quality of the suspense in her books and the tightness of the technical elements.
Outstanding and eminently readable, 'Gravity' is part medical thriller, part science fiction, and all un-put-downable.
When a lab experiment sent to the International Space Station for study under microgravity conditions turns deadly, it's up to the station crew to try to stay alive and to NASA's ground crew to figure out how to provide aid and whether to bring them home and risk contaminating Earth with a horrifying plague. Woven through this are the complex relationships between several of the main characters and, ultimately, between a civilian space exploration program and a military structure whose goals are often very different.
Gerritson never cuts back on the suspense and keeps various countdown clocks ticking as the story unspools. Descriptions of the agonizing and lethal attacks on the various ISS crew members are not for the faint of heart. This one will keep you up until the last page is turned ⦠and perhaps for a while beyond that.
When a lab experiment sent to the International Space Station for study under microgravity conditions turns deadly, it's up to the station crew to try to stay alive and to NASA's ground crew to figure out how to provide aid and whether to bring them home and risk contaminating Earth with a horrifying plague. Woven through this are the complex relationships between several of the main characters and, ultimately, between a civilian space exploration program and a military structure whose goals are often very different.
Gerritson never cuts back on the suspense and keeps various countdown clocks ticking as the story unspools. Descriptions of the agonizing and lethal attacks on the various ISS crew members are not for the faint of heart. This one will keep you up until the last page is turned ⦠and perhaps for a while beyond that.
This is one of the best Tess Gerritsen books I have read. I loved it.
One of Ms Gerritsen's best!
A bit slow at first, but stick with it - you won't be disappointed. Medical thriller.
Very similiar to Koontz
Combines a medical thriller with science fiction. The writer used a lot of acroymns although there was a glossary that made the reading a little tedious at first.
Gerritsen writes great edge-of-your-seat thrillers.
This was a heart pounding, fascinating story that is a real page turner. Classic Gerritsen!
great plot! edge of your seat reading. She's a wonderful storyteller!!
this was my first Tess Gerritson's books..WOW..it was great but gory at times
Gerritsen has done it again!! A great combination of medical mystery and spine-tingling space exploration with heart-stopping drama. Really, you have to read this one!!
Great and suspenseful..
The government really does keep secrets!
Beth
The government really does keep secrets!
Beth
My 1st audio book and I loved it. Not just sci-fi but a really good personal story!
This is another must read from Tess Gerritsen! I learned a lot about the space program, shuttles, space stations, etcIt was just like being there she was so descriptive! Could not put it down!
A young NASA Dr. must combat a lethal microb that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments-space.
Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. But her mission aboard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare beyond imagining when a culture of single celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control and infect the space station crew with agonizing and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the outbreak while back on Earth her estranged husband works frantically with NASA to bring her home. But there will be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Earth's population, and the astronauts are stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station where thery are dying one by one...... This is a REALLY good book that I couldn't put down.
a young nasa doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of enviroments-space.
Dr. emma Watso has been training for the adventure of a lifetime; to study living beings in space. But her mission abooard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare beyond imagining when a culture of single celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control.
Dr. Emma Watson has been training for her mission to study living beings in space. But her dream turns into a nightmare when a culture of single cell organisms generates out of control- infecting the space station crew. She struggles to contain the virus outbreak, while she and the rest of the crew are stranded in space-dying one by one.
Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. But her mission aboard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare beyond imagining when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control--and infects the space station crew with agonizing and deadly results.
One of my favorite authors, and this has always stuck in my head as her best novel. It could easily become a movie, and I would like to see it. :)
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