The Face Transplant by A. Arundel

Blurb:

An epic journey of suspense, murder, and sacrifice.

Dr. Matthew MacAulay is a facial transplant surgeon at a prestigious New York hospital. When his friend and mentor, Tom Grabowski, dies under mysterious circumstances, Matthew uncovers his friend’s secret: a new technique that allows perfect facial transplants. No incisions, no scars. Tom was able to accomplish this monumental feat with the help of Alice, a supercomputer robot with almost human abilities. While trying to find the people responsible for murdering Tom, Matthew realizes he is the prime suspect. He must flee for his life with the help of Dr. Sarah Larsson, a colleague and reluctant helper, who has a secret of her own, and Alice, who helps them make sense of a baffling series of seemingly unrelated events. The clues carry Matthew and Sarah around the world. They stumble onto a sinister plot of monumental proportions that leads Matthew all the way to the White House.

The Face Transplant is a powerful medical suspense thriller of the first order. The novel was written by a surgeon who weaves politics, medicine, and espionage into a tightly paced, intelligent thriller.

About the Author:

The Face Transplant is a novel written by R. Arundel a surgeon. The novel has an authenticity only a surgeon can bring to the story. It is set in the near future. A medical thriller, the story weaves politics, medicine and human drama into a tightly woven plot. The book crescendos page-by-page to a totally unexpected conclusion.

Review by Rochelle:

The Face Transplant is a gripping thriller with compelling characters. That said I had difficulty with the premise, even though it was written by a surgeon. I don’t see how transplanting the skin of one person onto the bone structure of another is going to create a double of the donor. Too much depends on bone structure. For instance, I have a round face, short nose, and rose-bud lips. If you transplanted Cher’s face onto mine it wouldn’t give me her cheekbones or her long nose. I never saw the movie Face Off, but I probably would have had the same problem unless I was convinced the machine sculpted the contours of the person’s face as well as exchanging skin.

Then there were head-hops. This is a new edition that has been “re-edited.” Unfortunately, the new editor must not have been familiar with the standard of staying with one point of view in each scene. The POV hops from one person to another in the same paragraph, which makes me dizzy and gives me headaches.

I really wanted to give The Face Transplant a better rating, but I’m afraid the best I can do is three roses. If you can suspend disbelief and buy the premise that planting one person’s skin onto another person’s face will make him/her look like the donor, and you don’t care how often the POV shifts, you’ll enjoy it.

Author Website:

http://www.thefacetransplant.com/about.html

Amazon Author Page:  http://www.amazon.com/R-Arundel/e/B00EBCQVEC/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Heat Rating:  PG-13 (V, L)

Length:  379 Pages

Prices:

Print:  $13.45

Digital:  $2.99

Buy Link:  http://www.amazon.com/Face-Transplant-R-Arundel-ebook/dp/B00E6XU322/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447098840&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Face+Transplant+%2B+A+Arundel

Thanks for visiting. Donna, Julie, & Rochelle

Dream Doctor by J. J. DiBenedetto

Blurb:

Between adjusting to life as a newlywed and trying to survive the first month of medical school, Sara Alderson has a lot on her plate. She definitely doesn’t need to start visiting other people’s dreams again. Unfortunately for her, it’s happening anyway.

Every night, she sees a different person and a different dream. But every dreamer has one thing in common: they all hate Dr. Morris, the least popular professor in the medical school, and they’re all dreaming about seeing him—or making him—dead.

Once again, Sara finds herself in the role of unwilling witness to a murder before it happens. But this time, there are too many suspects to count, and it doesn’t help matters that she hates Dr. Morris every bit as much as any of his would-be murderers do.

Dream Doctor is the second book of the Dream Series.

Review by Rochelle Weber:

Sara was an engaging character and it was fun following her through her first month of medical school. Of course, it helps to have a medical background and not be too squeamish when Mr. DiBenedetto describes Anatomy and Physiology class with the smell of formaldehyde and dissecting cadavers. He talks about the need to distance oneself from the people who once belonged to the bodies the students work on—an issue that comes up when the group dissects the part of the arm where one member sustained a traumatic injury, or when a case study closely parallels that of another member’s dying mother.

And all of this fun is wrapped around a great paranormal mystery, as Sara witnesses other peoples’ dreams and tries to figure out which of her least-favorite professor’s would-be murderers is going to succeed in doing away with him, where and when. Not to mention how to help a few other people whose dreams she witnesses along the way—like the friend with the dying mother who has no other family to turn to for support. Mr. DiBenedetto grabbed me at the beginning and kept me guessing right through to the very end. I’m not telling which professor did it in what room or with which weapon. You’ll have to buy the book to find out. Or was it the butler?

Length:  271 Pages

Prices:

Print:  $10.79

Digital:  $3.99

Buy Link:  http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Doctor-Book-J-J-DiBenedettos-ebook/dp/B00BW8JPWS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410298386&sr=8-1&keywords=dream+doctor+%2B+jj+dibenedetto

Thanks for visiting. Rose, Julie, Donna, & Rochelle