Throughout the book, Gerritsen keeps the pacing at fever pitch, bouncing around between the primary characters. Moore, Rizzoli, and Cordell all get equal time and scenes that build their character while making them more real to the reader. I felt like I knew all of them. In some of her later books, Gerritsen doesn’t quite always pull that off, but in this one the characterizations are dead on.
The Surgeon presents a familiar chase, but Gerritsen throws in plenty of twists and turns that are uniquely her own. I totally bought into all the characters, and the pacing was staccato. I just couldn’t turn the pages fast enough, and even when I reached the end I wanted more.
The novel does carry a heavier romance subplot than is usually found in the Rizzoli novels. When Gerritsen first began writing, she started out writing romances. She was still clinging to some of that in this novel, later learning to push out of it pretty much entirely and hang on to the thriller side of fiction. But the love story works well in this book, raising the stakes yet again on an excellent suspense novel that will keep you up late, and your heart rate up.
Article comments
1 - Natalie Bennett
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2 - ms stevens
fucking hate this book
guive me the fuckin summammry