2008-06-21 Felt like I'd read it before....

You know how now and then you get that deja vous feeling because something is so familiar? Well, that's how this book was for me. As soon as I'd started reading the prologue I thought that I must've read it before but....checking my reading lists, (saddo I know but keep a computerized list), this wasn't the case and the title certainly didn't ring any bells. So then I thought that maybe I HAD read the prologue and possibly the first chapter if they'd been added on to the end of another of Tess Gerritsen's books, as other authors sometimes do, giving you a taster of their next book. But don't think this had been the case...this just got more and more familiar as I continued through the book. Very odd.

It's only saving grace for me is that just as I can never remember what is going to happen next with a film I'm watching for the second time while it's still familiar as it goes along - I now also know that this must happen with books too! Although I'm still pretty certain that I have NEVER read WHISTLEBLOWER before? It got me wondering if this was another of her books that has been re-printed under another name too?

As far as the story line goes, I could see how a lone female might be urged to spontaniously shove a strange wounded man in her car to transport him to a hospital quicker way out in the back of beyond but other things were just too far fetched for my liking.

I'm now wondering if perhaps I hadn't read this book before, even under another a title but that maybe it had been made into a film and that's why it was so familiar?

It was a quick read and didn't really stretch my curiosity as her other books usually do but would probably have been ok to read on a plane or something when you just want a really easy read.

Sadly not one of Tess Gerritsens finest novels I'm afraid but having seen that it was first printed back in the early nineties, I can only thank heaven that she's improved along the way. I usually love her books.