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A review by marleens
De Chirurg by Tess Gerritsen
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Knowing this book is ‘Rizzoli&Isles #1’ I went in with very different expectations, but this is not a book about likeable strong women figuring out the murder. Isles is nowhere to be seen yet and Rizzoli is a (to me) rather unlikeable side character. It’s also a pretty dated read by now. Aside from the dated technology there is a lot of misogyny and sexism in the story, and I would hope that that would no longer be written like this today… Aside from all this I did mostly have a good time reading it. The pace is fast, the stakes are high, and I enjoyed the fact that we got the killer’s inner monologue as a POV as well.
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, and Murder