Nano. Robin Cook. 2012. [December] Putnam. 436. [Source:
Purchased]First sentence: The cyclist decided to go for a relaxing ride - the real training would resume on Tuesday, after he underwent more medical tests.
Premise/Plot: From Goodreads - After a tumultuous year in
which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life,
Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her
medical studies and escape New York
City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field
of medical technology and the chance to clear her head, Pia takes a job at
Nano, LLC, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology insititute in
the picturesque foothills of the Rockies.
Nano, LLC is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular
manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots
with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria.
But the corporate campus is a place of secrets. She's warned by her boss not to investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, nor to ask questions about the source of the seemingly endless capital that funds the institute's research. And when Pia encounters a fellow employee on a corporate jogging path, suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon Nano LLC's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the twenty-first century—a treatment option for millions—or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
But the corporate campus is a place of secrets. She's warned by her boss not to investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, nor to ask questions about the source of the seemingly endless capital that funds the institute's research. And when Pia encounters a fellow employee on a corporate jogging path, suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon Nano LLC's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the twenty-first century—a treatment option for millions—or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
My thoughts: Oh where
to start where to start. I love Robin
Cook every book I have ever read by him has been spot on good. And then there was Nano, I had a very hard
time enjoying this story. Let’s start
with Pia Grazdani she is interesting actually not your typical heroine by any
means she is extremely flawed and emotionally handicapped is a good
description. Then we have a couple of
guys one that wants to be the love interest and the other who we are led to
believe will be a love interest only to have the rug pulled out in a way I
won’t say. Then it’s on to the evil
company with all the ‘bad guys’. It just
seemed to drag on and on with no real purpose as in I feel like we got a whole
extra 100 pages easily due to the slow pace.
Then the last 50 or so pages flew by ending in the most anti-climatic
endings I have ever had the misfortune to read.
I did enjoy the concept of the novel and I did enjoy some of the
characters to be honest I did not dislike the characters or the story but more
the length of the overall story is what really did me in, that and the ending
did I mention that? This is probably the
hardest review I have written just because I truly love Robin Cook as an author
and reading his books have always brought me great enjoyment and I will
continue to read him just this one did nothing for me.
Rating 5.5/10
Recommendation: If you like slow paced drawn out stories
then this is definitely for you!
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