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Summary: in need of better editing
Review: pg 238
"....'Rae,' Bobbie said just before Rae closed the door.
Rae turned. In Bobby's hand..."
The chapter continues the inability to choose a spelling of this character's name for the next 2 pages. In 12 mentions of the name "Bobby/ie" it is spelled with a "y" a total of 8 times, and with an "ie" a total of 4 times.
Further towards the beginning of the book (pages 93-94) we have it spelled "ie" 4 times and with a "y" twice.
Had this book been better edited - with regards to minor typos as well as character devlopment, plot pacing, etc - it might not have been such a chore to read.
I think Ms. Cuthbert shows potential, but she should maybe be guided by the hands of a more capable editor. One or two typos in a book is excusable and I find them frequently, but any editor worth his/her red ink wouldn't have let these atrocities fly...
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Summary: Would like to see more like this...compelling!
Review: Riveting suspense...couldn't put it down. The pace of the action kept me interested enough to read all night. I liked the writing style and will definitely buy her next book which I hope will be published soon. To Margaret, wherever you are: I really enjoyed your good work...keep it up! I would like to see more like Dr. Rae Duprey.
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Summary: Wonderfully original.
Review: Terrific! It was so suspenseful I couldn't put it down. I love a good mystery, particularly when I can not figure it out beforehand, which is rare. I appreciated the fact that the protagonist wasn't portrayed as a super woman. She had flaws, but was consistent in her beliefs and determination - a strong woman. I especially enjoyed the relationship dynamics between all the characters. It is so refreshing to read a book that I can identify with; involving black professional characters without focusing on the race issue or female oppression. The relationship between the protagonist and anesthesiologist was just plain hot. It looks like this book will mark the beginning of a series, at least I hope so. It's been a year since it was published, and I simply assumed that "And Down Will Come Baby" was already on the market. To my disappointment, it was not, but it will be in my shopping cart as soon as it is released. Brava, Dr. Cuthbert, Brava!
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Summary: Medical mystery of life, love, and betrayal
Review: The author uses her medical background to create a believable hospital suspense for the reader. The story begins fast and furious, and enthralls the reader in the life of the main character, an OB/GYN who is losing patients and doesn't know why. The story becomes predictable, however, and the ending is obvious long before the book ends. This book makes for good light reading.
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Summary: Just plain bad
Review: The heroine is obnoxious, the writting is dull and the plot is stupid. I always try to finish a book, no matter how terrible or uninteresting it is....but this book tested me. It was painful trying to finish it.
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Summary: I found this book to be boring and contrived.
Review: The main character of this book Dr. Rae Duprey, head of the Berkeley Hills Hospital OB/Gyn department, should be a smart woman. But in this book, she comes across as impulsive, not very crafty, and careless in her investigations. She puts herself in danger needlessly. Her romance seemed contrived and unbelievable. I felt myself resenting the time reading the book and found the ending a disappointment.
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Summary: Obnoxious heroine - good mystery
Review: The mystery in "Silent Cradle" was excellent but the characters were boring. Flippant descriptions of clothing and food were at inappropriate times. If the heroine worked for me and behaved like this one did, she'd be looking for a job someplace else. I kept thinking, "Get real!" or "I'm sure!" at some of the heroine's antics. "Silent Cradle" also was not the best, descriptive title for this book. The author did a good job of making everybody look guilty, making them "good guys" then casting doubt on them again so that you were always wondering - however, after too many times doing this, I got to the point of "who cares?" Dr. Cuthbert might want to pay attention to her practice for awhile.
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Summary: A Sickly effort!
Review: The Silent Cradle is a book in search of a genre. It's neither medical thriller nor romance fiction, but falls into literary limbo! In short, this plot is in critical condition and in desperate need of emergency care!
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Summary: Great Start for a Newcomer....
Review: The Silent Cradle was a wonderfully interesting book. Mrs. Cuthbert grabbed my attention at the prologue and held me at the edge of my seat until the near end. The book is filled with supsense, mystery, and intrigue. I could not put the it down. Rae Duprey performed as an extraordinary doctor whose gut instinct led her to unravel the mystery of the "Bad Babies." The entrance of Sam was right on time and added the "doubt" of who was really behind the conspiracy. I look forward to Mrs. Cuthbert's next novel.
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Summary: Badly in need of editing
Review: They should put a page limit on these things. 486 pages is way too much. I skipped 50 pages in the middle and wound up still in the same discussion, having missed none of the plot.
Much in the book is good. But it doesn't take a dozen repetitions of the same thing over and over for the reader to get the point.
The author starts off making a big point of the female MD protagonist being black. "There were no other black people in the [board] room. Rae was used to this.... An advantage -- she now understood. Being different had taught her to be tough, resouceful, and self-reliant." Yet none of the book seems tied to her experience as a minority.
And a mere TWO pages later, the author makes prejudiced and bigoted comments about nurses as a group: "[Married Dr. Marco Donavelli] was called Il Magnifico ... because of his reputation with the nurses. No one hopped in and out of bed with more of them than Marco did. It was not just his looks.... What drove most nurses to his bed was his skill in the operating room."
Was this supposed to be a book to expose prejudice, or create it?
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