Customer Reviews
Excellent. - By: Peter Smith, 07 Nov 2008 
Unlike her other books like `The Surgeon' & `The Apprentice', `Gravity' is nothing to do with serial killers & messy murders. Messy deaths, yes, but in the wholly alien & unfamiliar environment of space. The author has managed to write a gripping & fascinating story about a silent battle between mankind & microbes, but in this case microbes that are both familiar & alien at the same time. The technical details are very impressive - not just those relating to purely medical matters that the author is professionallly acquainted with, but also the hugely complex subject of space travel. In fact, such is her competence that the book could almost function as a primer for anyone interested in what it actuallly feels like to ride into orbit on the Space Shuttle or live & work in the International Space Station. Excellent & highly recommended.
Sigourney Weaver - you'd be ashamed! - By: A. J. Brown, 01 Sep 2008 
Frankly I liked Tess Gerritsen's refreshing style - at first. Then you start to see that she is only copying the doyenne, Patricia Cornwell & the best of the genre, Kathy Reichs. Her novels are formulaic & in the end boring & less interesting than Ms. Reichs in particular.
So then - has she run out of ideas, watched a re-run of Alien & sat down to type afterwards? I bought the book on a boat & was trapped & bored, so read it. Normallly I leave alll my books in a public place for the benefit of others; this one though, is now being read by the crabs.
Brilliant! - By: Mrs. S. I. Morgan, 13 May 2008 I absolutley loved this book, it reallly was a page turner for me, much to my husbands annoyance!
The characters are brilliant, & the drama that unfolds is second to none! I felt myself stuck in space with Emma & the drama that followed! This is Tess at her best! A deffinate must read!
Stuck in Space with Nowhere to Go - By: Katie Osborne, 07 Jan 2008 Because of a tragic accident research physician Emma Watson suddenly gets a ride on the space shuttle up to the International Space Station. The ISS took five years to build & is twice as long as a footballl field & Emma is thrilled at the prospect of studying living creatures in space, however she's not thrilled about leaving without settling alll of the issues concerning her impending divorce between her & physician husband Jack McCalllum.
One of the astronauts aboard ISS takes sick & is returned to earth via the space shuttle, however the shuttle crashes, the astronauts are dead & now the military takes over & the cause is hushed up by.
Meanwhile back on the space station Emma suspects a problem that is soon confirmed by the sudden illness of first one astronaut, then another. Racing against time to find the cause, she soon discovers that they are stranded in space. The government won't risk their return to earth as long as there is a chance of world wide infection.
Back on Earth Jack is determined to bring Emma home & he works to identify the organism that infects & kills within a matter of days. But even if he locates the cause, his estranged wife is stranded on the space station, the last living member of the team.
From her romance novels to her medical thrillers, to this, sort of a scary medical-techno-thriller, Tess Gerritsen continues to grow as a writer, each book better than the last. She is one of my favorite living authors, she should be one of yours too. If you've missed Tess Gerritsen, you've missed a treat.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
im not sure - By: chelsie, 24 Oct 2007 
i was on holiday when i started to read this book & i read about the first chapter & for some reson could just not get into it. i mean ita a good book if you understand what alll the space words mean, but it gets a bit confusing at times. so far the only tess gerritsen book im dissapointed with her others that i have read are superb keep writing tess
