RizzoliAndIsles

The Surgeon | Tess Gerritsen

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Different than what I thought (in that Isles doesn‘t appear at all), and not like the tv show (yet), but I found it a fun read and will continue the series. Very bingeable.

GinaKButler I recently started this series, too! It‘s good! 3w

bookaholic1 She's a big favorite of mine :) 3w

Kristy_K @GinaKButler @bookaholic1 I like discovering a good mystery series that has a decent backlog I can read through! 3w

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Body Double: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel | Tess Gerritsen

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This one had a slow start, and the writing was definitely a few steps down from the book I listened to just before this one (so it took some time to adjust to completely different writing in both style and quality). The story was disjointed in places, and that wasn‘t cleared up until at least half way through the book, so it just felt like there were these random fragments of other stories in random places.
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GingerAntics The audiobook was literally just pulled from the original 2004 CD audiobook, so there are random “end of disk 4... disk 5” announcements in the middle of sentences. It would have taken less than an hour to edit those out and make this a proper digital audiobook. It just felt rushed and haphazard, almost as if no one cared to make a decent product. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo

GingerAntics The case was compelling and there were a ton of revelations. There were a lot of twists and turns along the way. The killer, at the end, was shocking. This one had a lot of death and a lot of blood if that kind of thing bothers you. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo

GingerAntics I think the thing that annoys me the most is that 3 of the first 4 books all have naked women on them, even though that‘s not part of the case at all. I‘m trying to figure out what dirty old man designed these book covers and why no one thought to stop him. #TessGerritsen #BodyDouble #RizzoliAndIsles #MauraIsles #JaneRizzoli #audiobook 1mo

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Body Double: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel | Tess Gerritsen

Dun, dun, dun!
#TessGerritsen #BodyDouble #RizzoliAndIsles #MauraIsles #adopted #BirthMother

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Body Double: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel | Tess Gerritsen

Taking this for a spin.
#TessGerritsen #BodyDouble #RizzoliAndIsles

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The Apprentice: A Novel | Tess Gerritsen

The more things change, the more things stay the same.
#TessGerritsen #TheSinner #RizzoliAndIsles
#JaneRizzoli #Mauralsles

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The Apprentice: A Novel | Tess Gerritsen

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This book is WAY better than the first. Isles is actually in this one, but far from the costar of the show. Jane‘s family is verbally and emotionally abusive toward her. Period. All of them, but especially her mother. This is not the lovable, slightly overprotective Angela from the show. This is a monster and her monster sons - wholly irredeemable. If this were set 10 years later, Jane would have gone no contact long ago.
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GingerAntics Gerritsen wants readers to believe that 30-somethings in 2002 couldn‘t work or program a VCR which is ridiculously far from reality. The references to the war in Kosovo (I still remember where I was when I first heard about bombs being dropped over Kosovo) and home fax machines complete the story‘s placement in time. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo

GingerAntics I still don‘t know why they have pagers AND cell phones, seeing that by 2002 pagers were no longer used professionally, even by drug dealers (the only people still using them, or so they jokes said, at that point). #TessGerritsen #TheApprentice #RizzoliAndIsles
#JaneRizzoli #Mauralsles 1mo

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The Apprentice: A Novel | Tess Gerritsen

Giving the second book a go while donating plasma today.
#TessGerritsen #TheApprentice #RizzoliAndIsles
#JaneRizzoli #Mauralsles

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The Surgeon | Tess Gerritsen

so-so

RANT ALERT

I liked it - sort of, and only in relation to my enjoyment of the TV show - and will continue the series, but I‘m hoping the books get better from here or I won‘t be continuing for long. For being the Rizzoli and Isles series, Isles wasn‘t even in it. She wasn‘t even mentioned. This one was actually kind of painful. There was a ridiculous amount of sexism that is not present in the show.
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GingerAntics Meat is “men‘s food” and a daughter‘s career - Jane‘s career - is less important than either of her “good looking brothers.” Frankie is a huge jerk in this one, and can‘t be bothered to help either his mother or his sister in the kitchen, and Jane was yelled at for having to rush back to work in the middle of a case because Frankie is home from war and he should be her priority. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo

GingerAntics Worse yet, Jane was openly sexually harassed by another detective when he put one of her tampons in her bottle of water. One character even had all white furniture specifically because it was “pure” and “virginal.” Supposedly this was written in 2001, but that one made me question if it was actually written in 1901. It was just deplorable. I know the show came from the books, but so far the show is WAY better. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 1mo

GingerAntics It doesn‘t take long to remember this was written over 20 years ago, and the reminders never stop coming. From medical charting being done by hand, the explanations of what chat rooms are, what CODIS and VICAP are, to referring to a character as not quite as attractive as Mel Gibson but still good looking, the dated references just keep on coming. That Mel Gibson reference did NOT age well at all. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo

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GingerAntics It even refers to AOL accounts being used in office settings (which I never knew was a thing seeing how expensive it was). There was also a black guy with a cop‘s boot on his neck and no one batting an eyelash. I nearly stopped at that point. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo

GingerAntics The narrator was HORRIBLE. She doesn‘t know how to pronounce the first victim‘s name, Ortiz (and apparently no one else involved in the production of the audiobook knew either). She also couldn‘t pronounce basil, saline, epinephrine, or synapses. All of these words came up multiple times. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo

GingerAntics Considering the author is a medical doctor, you‘d think you‘d get someone who could say these basic words, but no. Considering this version of the audiobook was recorded in 2020, it‘s just ridiculous. #TessGerritsen #TheSurgeon #RizzoliAndIsles
#JaneRizzoli #Mauralsles 1mo

AnnCrystal I haven't watched the show or read the books, but did some web research for you, here is what I found:

“Rizzoli appears in the series' first novel, The Surgeon, and Isles is introduced in the second, The Apprentice, which serves as the basis for the television series.“

Hope this helps 😉📚📺💝.
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GingerAntics @AnnCrystal I know. I looked that up while I was listening. There is a fan page that lists the characters in each book. 1mo

AnnCrystal @GingerAntics 🆒😉👍🏼💝. 1mo

GingerAntics @AnnCrystal I‘m really hoping this author isn‘t a medical professional anymore. I hope she‘s switched to writing full time. Her insistence that the uterus is what makes a woman a woman had to have been horrible for her patients that had hysterectomies back in 2000. Ugh. I wish she would shut up about that already. 1mo

AnnCrystal @GingerAntics Yikes 🤔😕🤨. 1mo

GingerAntics @AnnCrystal yeah. As a female medical professional… I mean I get it was the early 2000s, but seriously. Honestly, I feel like the author may be slightly monstrous herself. Did her parents not like her (at all) compared to her brothers? So many questions. Maybe I should look up some interviews of her to try and get a feel for her. I‘m not sure I particularly like her. 1mo

AnnCrystal @GingerAntics strange, and true about those who have been under her care...😢. 1mo

GingerAntics @AnnCrystal it really is. I have such mixed feelings. I‘ll give it one more book, but if it doesn‘t start getting better, I think I‘m going to be done and I‘ll stick with the show. The show is SO much better. 1mo

AnnCrystal @GingerAntics 😉👍🏼 Good plan. Don't let it ruin the show for you 📺💝. (edited) 1mo

GingerAntics @AnnCrystal the show is so much better. I think it‘s cool that in the final episode, one of the characters is going to start writing crime novels, so Tess Gerritsen actuality appears on screen to meet with her to talk about it, but I don‘t have to actually like her as an author to appreciate how they skipped that in. 1mo

AnnCrystal @GingerAntics 🆒📺💝. 1mo

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The Surgeon | Tess Gerritsen

Since I‘ve been home the last 7 months, my mother has gotten me hooked on the TV show Rizzoli and Isles. When I found out it was based on a series of novels and short stories, I knew I had to read them. My mother says Maura Isles reminds me of her… it‘s better than Sheldon Cooper so I‘m down. lol
#TessGerritsen #TheSurgeon #RizzoliAndIsles #JaneRizzoli #MauraIsles

GingerAntics No Isles in this one and the narrator can‘t even say the name Ortiz. I‘m just chugging through so I can get to the next book with Isles in it. 1mo

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