LAURIE WOOD - BLACK ICE REVIEWS
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Reading and writing have been a passion for Laurie Wood since winning city-wide writing contests in Grade Five and Eight. Her favourite genres are romantic suspense, mysteries, and a good spine-tingling thriller. She loves to judge contests as well as enter them, and is active in several RWA Chapters. Although published in non-fiction articles, she's yet to grab the golden ring of being published in novel-length fiction. Until then, she writes at home and takes care of her two special needs children, an alpha male husband who inspires her heroes, and a golden retriever who thinks she's just a kid in fur. |
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DEFICIENCY
Andrew Neiderman
Pocket Star Books, 2004, $7.99, Paperback
ISBN 0-7434-8321-9
Neiderman takes a serial killer, throws in a fillip of Frankenstein, a
dash of science fiction, and comes up with DEFICIENCY – his latest
medical thriller about a man so physically perfect, so cunning, and so
deadly that it is almost impossible to chase him down as he kills young
women in such graphic horror that one wonders about other paranormal creatures.
This man has no past, no memories; his creator has made him perfect in
every way but that one. He feels only the senseless urging of a hunger
that can never be satisfied – to feed on women in a sexual way –
feeding on their blood to gain their nutrients which presents their deaths
as modern day diseases so rare that they should be an impossibility.
Dr. Terri Barnard has returned to her hometown in upstate New York to practice
hospital medicine. The victims are brought into Emergency to die in front of her
eyes. As a protagonist, she’s a one-dimensional character and Neiderman fails
his readers in this regard. The villain is such a dominating figure he deserves
a better foil.
She’s quick to figure out the truth about their serial killer and in true thriller
fashion must do battle with the killer himself. Although the book lacks the depth
and layers of The Devil’s Advocate, fans of Neiderman will enjoy it just the same.
His next book, The Hunted, will be out in paperback in the summer of 2005.
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