WOW if you like thrillers and medical type suspense books, then this is for you. I was thrilled and consumed at the same time. The book starts with a main character that has guts, brains, and a keen sense for sniffing out trouble. I will admit I was scared to death with the first hospital admit. It is the kind of book that makes you think.
Usually we reflect on the ob office as a bad place. Who likes to go there? nobody I know. For Jill at this stage in her career she is experienced and knows something strange is going on. There is usually a happy feel in the delivery rooms, but not when there are chromosomal abnormalities. I know a lot about this, so there was a lot of research involved in the book. For the reader it is shocking when sad things happen like this. Jill and David Levine are on opposites, he feels nothing is going on. Sometimes a girl has intuition that men just don’t get. Jill is persistent and that is why I loved her character.
A wonderfully suspenseful book. I thought the details, research and scenarios were brilliant. All of the patients had interesting stories and of course the common thread being they were pregnant. There is a little romance added in to balance things out. Overall a read good book. Move on to part 2 with me!
J.A. (Joyce Anne) Schneider is a former staffer at Newsweek. Words and story ideas are always teeming in her head – “a colorful place!” she says. She’s a wife, mother of two adult children, and loves thrillers, medical thrillers, and mysteries. Once a Liberal Arts major (French and Spanish Literature), she has become increasingly fascinated with medicine and forensic science. Decades of being married to a physician who loves explaining medical concepts and reliving his experiences means that there’ll be medical angles even in “regular” thrillers that she writes.
EMBRYO is her first ebook. Its sequel, EMBRYO 2: CROSSHAIRS, was released in early April 2013. She and her husband live in southern Connecticut.
What created the idea for Embryo?
The idea came like a lightening bolt when hearing a conversation between J.A.’s husband (who did OB before switching to Cardiology), and an Ob/Gyn friend who was excited about IVF and its advances in curing diseases in utero. As an author who had already published fiction and non-fiction, J.A. thought about all human discoveries – from fire to atomic energy – and the fact that they can be either good or very bad if they fall into the wrong hands. It was a thought that wouldn’t let go. GOOD LUCK AND LOVE TO ALL!
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