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Title: Death Rounds by Peter Clement ISBN: 0-449-00450-3 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitely a page turner
Comment: I read this book and thought it to be a great page turner... it didn't take me long to read it, I couldn't wait to get to the end.
Another thing that I liked about this book is that the main character continues from Lethal Injection. The medical information was very interesting... makes you think how and if??? It kept me guessing right until the end... I can't wait for his next book!!
I would recommend this book!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Death Rounds--a waste of time
Comment: The only positive aspect of this sluggish, poorly written novel about an antibiotic-resistant bacteria is the medical information, but for some it may be difficult to follow.
The negative aspects are multiple (listed here in descending order):
(a) the culprit is obvious well before the middle of the novel. Given this, the reader is left to wonder if the protagonist, a supposedly intelligent physician (who constantly plays into the hands of the villain) has cottage cheese in place of brains, or if the author expects us to figure it out and the fact that we know "who dunnit," while the protagonist doesn't, is supposed to build dramatic tension. If the former, it's hard to feel any connection with the protagonist, who, by his stupidity, is more-or-less responsible for multiple deaths (of course, the novel would have ended earlier had the protagonist seen what the reader easily discerns). If the latter, I for one don't like that plot device. Either way, the main problem is not knowing which. If I had to guess, given the "cagey" way the protagonist, as he's waiting for the killer to walk through a door, says he knows who's going to go through the door (and guess what? so do we) without naming the character, I would say the author doesn't itend that we know. But we do, and we wonder how this guy (the physician-protagonist, or the physician-turned-author, you take your pick) got through medical school.
(b) the prose is over-inflated, filled with passages of inner thoughts by the protagonist (the novel is written in the first person), who ruminates incessantly without every reaching any of the obvious conclusions (see above). I ended up skimming most such passages, and eventually just skipped to the end to confirm my knowledge of the killer.
(c) the plot is elaborate and clunky. In order to keep the protagonist "in the dark," the author has to set up a situations that are marginally plausible and motivations that are suspect and overly elaborate.
(d) The protagonist and his wife, another full-time physician, essentially abandon their infant child to the nanny. They think about the kid, they have a couple scenes with him, but they're never home, except to sleep and muse about who the "mysterious phantom killer" might be. The rest of the time, they leave the child with the nanny. I suppose this is something that happens in real life, but I find it just plain offensive and wonder why it's even in the novel, since it contributes little to the plot. (d) and finally, a personal gripe: The protagonist refers to his wife as "lady" on multiple occasions (as in, "Hey, lady, you really know how to play me"). I don't like it. Maybe it's not something that bother other people.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Excellent Mystrey
Comment: This is an book that is about a deadly virus going around through the hospita1. Everyone is coming down with the harmful disease! Who is creating the dreadful disease? Find out when you read Death Rounds by Peter Clement!
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Title: The Procedure by Peter Clement ISBN: 0449006220 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lethal Practice by Peter Clement ISBN: 0449002810 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Prescribed Danger by Gwen Hunter ISBN: 1551669161 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Delayed Diagnosis by Gwen Hunter ISBN: 1551668033 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Critical Condition by Peter Clement ISBN: 0345443403 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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