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A review by dajna
Intervention by Robin Cook
2.0
It was such a good idea, ruined by the ending. Can I ask for a retelling by [a:Dan Brown|630|Dan Brown|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1399396714p2/630.jpg]?
So, Jack and Laurie had a son, and he's sick. Laurie stays at home, caring for him 24/7, while the mainly Jack barely galces at the child. Because, you know, trauma. He doesn't anything around the house, he's sad because more often than not had to order food since the sick chiald is preventing his wife to cook him dinner and as soon as opportunity rises he's out of the house again. To celebrate with old friends, or to play basketball. Not once in the whole novel he interact with his son or help his wife with house chores.
All of a sudden two college mates call him to be part of a project and he jump at the opportunity to be stimulated by a 2000 years old mistery.
My problem with the book is that it seems badly patched up. We start with a crusade against alternative medicine and chiropractors, but it burns down fast. There are a few attempts to address the topic again while talking about JJ (their child) therapy, but it sounds forced. Than the subplot is dropped al together to focus on the science vs religion issue, which is interesting. And the mistery related to the Virgin Mary is good, is plausible, one wants to read the DNA report.
But there's no climax, no closure. Cook has bitten more than he could chew and decided to end it in flames. Maybe he didn't want to loose his more religious readers?
Anyway... he got rid of the science part in an auto-da-fé, admitting that the Chrch must hid information in order to survive and keep the status quo. But since Jack is a smartass he decided to take advantage of the info discovered by his dead friend's dead wife for his own gain.
Jack has never been a sensible carachter, but in this book he's clearly a bad person.
So, Jack and Laurie had a son, and he's sick. Laurie stays at home, caring for him 24/7, while the mainly Jack barely galces at the child. Because, you know, trauma. He doesn't anything around the house, he's sad because more often than not had to order food since the sick chiald is preventing his wife to cook him dinner and as soon as opportunity rises he's out of the house again. To celebrate with old friends, or to play basketball. Not once in the whole novel he interact with his son or help his wife with house chores.
All of a sudden two college mates call him to be part of a project and he jump at the opportunity to be stimulated by a 2000 years old mistery.
My problem with the book is that it seems badly patched up. We start with a crusade against alternative medicine and chiropractors, but it burns down fast. There are a few attempts to address the topic again while talking about JJ (their child) therapy, but it sounds forced. Than the subplot is dropped al together to focus on the science vs religion issue, which is interesting. And the mistery related to the Virgin Mary is good, is plausible, one wants to read the DNA report.
But there's no climax, no closure. Cook has bitten more than he could chew and decided to end it in flames. Maybe he didn't want to loose his more religious readers?
Anyway... he got rid of the science part in an auto-da-fé, admitting that the Chrch must hid information in order to survive and keep the status quo. But since Jack is a smartass he decided to take advantage of the info discovered by his dead friend's dead wife for his own gain.
Jack has never been a sensible carachter, but in this book he's clearly a bad person.