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The Apprentice

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Bantam Books
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

15 reviews
Sales Rank: 1886

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 3.9 x 1.1

ISBN: 0553817078
EAN: 9780553817072
ASIN: 0553817078

Publication Date: January 17, 2005
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Condition: Brand new book dispatched from stock in the UK

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3 out of 5 stars

Good but not as good as The Surgeon June 3, 2008
This is quite a good book though not so gripping as The Surgeon. I read it in 3 evenings so I must've quite enjoyed it to finish it so quickly but afterwards when I thought about it, there wasn't actually that much to the story. Someone is going around killing people, the murderer from the previous book escapes prison (which it tells you on the cover, so I'm not spoiling it for anyone), and the police attend each crime scene.
To me, though, they don't actually seem to achieve much in the way of detective work. How they actually catch the killers is not through their crime solving (won't say any more as I don't want to give anything away), and the ending lacks excitement.
It's readable and enjoyable enough and I would recommend it, just a little flat at the end after a promising read through the rest of the book.

1 out of 5 stars

The laziest book of all time.. August 14, 2007
3 out of 11 found this review helpful

Oh, my goodness. This is possibly the laziest book I've ever read.

Imagine you want to write a thriller. Imagine you're not very good at writing. So here we go:

Main character - oh hell, let's make her a woman. Since she's a woman, every other cop will be male and an unreconstructed, lazy mysoginist with 1950s attitudes.
Villain - oh dear, can't think of anything. Erm. Okay, he's a psycopath who's also skilled at surgery. No-one's ever done that before.
Plot - let's not really bother, eh?

Result - one Tess Gerritsen novel.

Like Patricia Cornwell, she has a forensics background, and Lord, doesn't she want you to know it. Endless garbage about how this test was done, or that science operates. We don't care, Tess. It's supposed to be about the plot, not what degree certificates hang on your wall at home.

When, oh when, will turgid thriller writers like this wake up? Law & Order manages to have police captains, DAs, and cops, none of whom have to walk through a bunch of neanderthals every morning. They are cops, or DAs, and have professional respect given accordingly. It is so lazy, and so pathetically lame, to use gender as a supposed instrument of "dramatic tension" within a team. Grow up. There are a million and one other reasons for this kind of friction, which are far more entertaining and interesting to write. Urban/rural, religion, race, politics, personal ambition, language, previous working history - these all spring to mind. But ah, they would require some imagination and effort to write. Far easier to go back to the same lame old stuff that's been churned out for thirty years. You know where you are with that, don't you?

If you want a brainless thriller, then fine, Tess has written one. But really, it's so formulaic and by-the-numbers, I imagine she could write this while driving down the interstate, juggling chainsaws and calculating Pi to 3,000 decimal places. Judging by this book, maybe she did.

4 out of 5 stars

Another good book from Gerritsen August 4, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I'm fairly new to Tess Gerritsen having read only 3 other of her books before this one. This book should only be read if you have read The Surgeon beforehand. This is a very good book and flows very easily and is hard to put down which is what ive come to expect from Gerritsen. It's better than the Surgeon but not as good as her phenomenal Vanish.

4 out of 5 stars

Not as good as The Surgeon....but not bad either June 3, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I'm new to Tess Gerritsen but did my homework before I started on her books to make sure I read them in sequence as I dove straight into Karin Slaughter and it drove me nuts not knowing the history.

The Apprentice is definitely a continuation of The Surgeon as we team up once again with Detective Jane Rizzoli as yet another killer is one the loose in Boston. This killer has some of the same characteristics of The Surgeon, a case which has scarred Rizzoli both physically and mentally. The similarities beg the question - "could a killer who she put behind bars be teaching his tricks of the trade to somebody new?".

The book itself is not quite as page-turning as The Surgeon but I think that may be because The Surgeon didn't focus on any one character and kept you going from several different perspectives whereas The Apprentice is focused mainly on Rizzoli and the killers. I have to admit that I didn't warm to Rizzoli in The Surgeon and I still don't think she's a particularly likeable character in The Apprentice but I'm warming to her slowly. The Apprentice is still a cracking story and will keep you engrossed but the ending is slightly rushed. I'm still looking forward to the next installment however.

3 out of 5 stars

Decent November 2, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Having read 'Body Double' and 'The Surgeon', I'm a new Tess Gerritsen fan and decided to take a look at 'The Apprentice'.

In this story we follow Detective Jane Rizzoli again, as she is tracking a killer who is showing similar patterns to a previous killer who she arrested. Things get even worse when that killer himself breaks out of jail and gets back into the fold.

The story is decent, and Gerritsen is able to tell a nice enough story, but for me the book is pretty flat. It lacks the suspense, and dynamism that 'The Surgeon' and 'Body Double' have. In fact a better title for this book would be 'The Surgeon II' as it is more of a sequel to that book.

So a good enough read, but luckily for Gerritsen, she is capable of writing much better than in this book.