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A review by gingerantics
Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book is WAY better than the first. Isles is actually in this one, but far from the costar of the show. Jane’s family is verbally and emotionally abusive toward her. Period. All of them, but especially her mother. This is not the lovable, slightly overprotective Angela from the show. This is a monster and her monster sons - wholly irredeemable. If this were set 10 years later, Jane would have gone no contact long ago.

Gerritsen wants readers to believe that 30-somethings in 2002 couldn’t work or program a VCR which is ridiculously far from reality. The references to the war in Kosovo (I still remember where I was when I first heard about bombs being dropped over Kosovo) and home fax machines complete the story’s placement in time. I still don’t know why they have pagers AND cell phones, seeing that by 2002 pagers were no longer used professionally, even by drug dealers (the only people still using them, or so they jokes said, at that point).
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