Gravity

Title: Gravity
Author: Tess Gerritsen
Type: Paperback
Read: 15th April - 19th April
Rating: 4/5
Published: 1st December 2012 by Harper Collins

 Dr. Emma Watson and five other hand-picked astronauts are about to take part in the trip of a lifetime - studying living creatures in space. But an alien life form, found in the deepest crevices of the ocean floor, is accidentally brought aboard the shuttle Atlantis. This mutated alien life form makes the creatures in Aliens look like backyard pets.
Soon the crew are suffering severe stomach pains, violent convulsions, and eyes so bloodshot that a gallon of Murine wouldn't help. Gerritsen brilliantly describes the difficulties of treating sick people inside a space module, and how the lack of gravity affects the process of taking blood and inserting a nasal tube. Dr. Watson does her best, but her colleagues die off one by one and the people at NASA don't want to risk bringing the platform back to earth. Only Emma's husband, a doctor/astronaut himself, refuses to give up on her. 

Oh my gosh. When a book starts to make you worried about the characters & their safety you just know it's going to be a cracker of a book. This has everything, drama, suspense, mystery and death! It's so good.
Gravity is pretty much set in space, it's captivating. It cries out to be read. A contamination occurs aboard ISS and its wiping out every astronaut on board. So much so the army won't let them evacuate to earth.

NASA are kept in the dark, they want their astronauts home, but they've no idea what they are working against. What exactly is it that's killing everyone in sight & blowing up their bodies. It's gross.

I loved the pace of the story. The NASA talk confused me but it's all explained at the back afterwards. It's a great story. You connect with the characters so much & you're constantly wondering what this new life form is and how it's come about, what will stop it.

I just love Tess books. I admit i sometimes find the standalone books harder to get in as there's a bunch of new characters to get used to and no back story but this book I loved. Tess is a great storyteller and you won't be disappointed.

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