Medical resident Dr. Abby Matteo is elated when the elite cardiac transplant team at Boston's Bayside Hospital taps her as a potential recruit. ... read full description
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Feb 04, 2008
Bill
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Harvest was recommended to me by a visitor to my site. Thanks, I enjoyed it.
Oftentimes when you read a novel about the profession in which the author was, at least you'll get an in depth perspective of that area.
In this case, the medical profession. Harvest focuses on organ
transplants, and the story involves organ donation on the black market.
Interesting stuff, and a very readable and exciting story. It would
appeal to just about anyone with an interest in th More...
Oftentimes when you read a novel about the profession in which the author was, at least you'll get an in depth perspective of that area.
In this case, the medical profession. Harvest focuses on organ
transplants, and the story involves organ donation on the black market.
Interesting stuff, and a very readable and exciting story. It would
appeal to just about anyone with an interest in th More...
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Sep 15, 2011
Paperback version: 501 pages
Genre: Horror, Medical, Crime,
Rating: *****
Brief Synopsis:
Abbie DiMatteo has just landed her dream job, a resident at Bayside Hospital training with some of the best to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor or surgeon.
However not long into the job. The problems begin. Ostrasised by staff and members of the public after choosing to give a heart to someone she considers in more need than the other who is supposed to More...
Genre: Horror, Medical, Crime,
Rating: *****
Brief Synopsis:
Abbie DiMatteo has just landed her dream job, a resident at Bayside Hospital training with some of the best to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor or surgeon.
However not long into the job. The problems begin. Ostrasised by staff and members of the public after choosing to give a heart to someone she considers in more need than the other who is supposed to More...
Jul 14, 2010
Linda
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Maybe I'll break my rule about reading the first novel by an author I haven't read before. The first is new work, a writer getting their writing muscles warmed up, the first editorial relationship tested, working arrangements, word choices being set like a table for a fancy dinner. This first novel has no tablecloth and plastic forks; we know the set-up, the bad guys, and the outcome way too soon. There's a weird typo missed in a sentence early on that read "opened the 'chest,'" instea
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Jun 10, 2011
Danni
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The first of Gerritsen's books I've read that was not a part of her Rizzoli and Isles series. The book featured a second year resident named Abby DiMatteo who helps steal a heart from one transplant patient to another. (Both were critical, but only the teenage boy was coding every half hour) With her job on the line, Abby was shocked when another heart appeared for the other patient within two days. And when a mysterious postop fever appears in the patient, Abby can't find the papers that pr
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Aug 30, 2011
Kristin
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Fascinating fictional look at the black market of organ brokerage. To me, the general direction the plot would take was rather predictable, I just wasn't sure who all was involved in the illegal activity. Early on, the book focuses on two young surgeons' efforts to redirect a heart meant for a wealthy woman living at home instead to a teenager barely clinging to life in the hospital. However, once that heart is given to someone, that plotline fizzles out. The rest of the book deals with one of t
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Jun 13, 2009
Michael
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This is a story of medical malpractice and greed.
Dr. Abby DiMatteo is caring for a young woman, unresponsive after a head on collision. Other members of the staff know that she will not recover and begin talking about transplanting her organs.
After the patient's husband agrees to the transplanting, a fellow MD, Dr. Vivian Voss speaks of a 17 year old boy in desperate need of a heart transplant. When Abby chechs for a cross match, she finds that her boyfirend, Dr. Mark Hodell, More...
Dr. Abby DiMatteo is caring for a young woman, unresponsive after a head on collision. Other members of the staff know that she will not recover and begin talking about transplanting her organs.
After the patient's husband agrees to the transplanting, a fellow MD, Dr. Vivian Voss speaks of a 17 year old boy in desperate need of a heart transplant. When Abby chechs for a cross match, she finds that her boyfirend, Dr. Mark Hodell, More...
Jan 09, 2009
Karenshaff
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Totally captivating story...Tess Gerritson tells a good medical thriller story time and again, being a physician herself makes the descriptions seem so real. I have read lots of her books, and each time, they keep me reading and I have to force myself to stop and turn out the light at night. Good read.
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Oct 16, 2011
Andrea
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This very suspenseful medical thriller involves Dr. Abbey Di Matteo, a second year surgical resident, who finds herself embroiled in a horrific web of "donor to the highest bidder." She finds that the donors aren't really donors either but orphans from Russia whose hearts are harvested and sold by the Russian Mafia to the tightly knit transplant team.
As Abbey digs deeper into the situation, she's being framed for murdering one of her patients, trailed by a mysterious van, int More...
As Abbey digs deeper into the situation, she's being framed for murdering one of her patients, trailed by a mysterious van, int More...
Oct 01, 2011
Sarah
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This book was absolutely fabulous. I was looking for something gritty when i went to the book store and the people were suggesting stuff and i decided to take this book. Then i started reading it and it was even better then what i had hoped for. For all those people who like their medical dramas, ie. ER, chicago hope, grey's anatomy, this book is 10 times better then those shows will ever be, even when they are in their peak air times. This book is down right dirty. Surgeons using words like 'cu
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Jun 20, 2011
Rhonda
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I thought this book made things pretty simple to guess where they were going. In the beginning we are introduced to some poor Russian (Latvian) street kids and they are "purchased" by a man and woman, two questionable characters, with a story about taking the kids to America for adoption. Please raise your hand if you didn't buy that story either.
The real key was wondering exactly how the title would be worked in: what exactly are we harvesting? When we are introduced to Dr. Abb More...
The real key was wondering exactly how the title would be worked in: what exactly are we harvesting? When we are introduced to Dr. Abb More...
Jun 26, 2011
Harvest, by Tess Gerritsen, a-minus, narrated by George Guidall, produced by Simon and Schuster, downloaded from audible.com.
This is Tess Gerritsen’s first medical thriller. Very good. Abbie is a young woman on the fast track at a Boston hospital to be a brilliant surgeon. She’s smart and has worked hard. She is involved with another doctor, a thoracic surgeon, who brings her one night to a secret meeting of the transplant organs team. They induct her into their circle. She is More...
This is Tess Gerritsen’s first medical thriller. Very good. Abbie is a young woman on the fast track at a Boston hospital to be a brilliant surgeon. She’s smart and has worked hard. She is involved with another doctor, a thoracic surgeon, who brings her one night to a secret meeting of the transplant organs team. They induct her into their circle. She is More...
Sep 10, 2010
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Nov 23, 2008
Jen
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Abby DiMatteo is a top-notch second-year resident at Bayside Hospital in Boston. Dr. Wettig, the supervisor of the residency program, is known to be a hard-nose who never compliments any of the residents, but he shows a lot of respect for Abby. In addition to the respect she is receiving from her supervisor, the organ transplant team is also showing interest in Abby. They want her to be a part of their team when she finishes her residency.
Abby is ecstatic about the attention she is r More...
Abby is ecstatic about the attention she is r More...
Sep 22, 2010
Laylah
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Reading this book makes me feel like my neck being squeezed. The pressure keeps building page by page. Now I'm nearing suffocation. But it's a good suffocation. I don't know. Maybe I'm experiencing literary erotic aphyxiation. While dying to be released of this torture, I still want more. Gerritsen doesn't hold back on grusome. Abby was deliberately/wrongfully accused of mentally unstable. I suspect she would actually be so for real after the ordeal she suffers at the end of the book. The villai
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Oct 26, 2011
Sandy
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By Tess Gerritsen
Narrated by George Guidall
Length:12 hrs and 30 mins
Release Date:04-22-11
You should know that my dad was an Army doctor and I have probably spent almost as much time in them as out! We were both mystery lovers so this had to be one of my Audible.com choices.
It got my husband and I a bit confused with some of the scene changes and who is or isn't there but that is kind of the fun of a mystery. Will it all come together in the end? While we More...
Narrated by George Guidall
Length:12 hrs and 30 mins
Release Date:04-22-11
You should know that my dad was an Army doctor and I have probably spent almost as much time in them as out! We were both mystery lovers so this had to be one of my Audible.com choices.
It got my husband and I a bit confused with some of the scene changes and who is or isn't there but that is kind of the fun of a mystery. Will it all come together in the end? While we More...
Sep 14, 2011
Elizabeth
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I thoroughly enjoyed "Harvest."
When I first started it, I thought this was the medical version of Grisham's "The Firm." And yes, there were some similarities in some ways. But it also it is also strong in it's own right. The story is about black market organ donations and the rich buying the organs needed for medical procedures.
I felt like Gerritsen revealed the layers of plot carefully and kept me interested all the way through. While yes, parts of th More...
When I first started it, I thought this was the medical version of Grisham's "The Firm." And yes, there were some similarities in some ways. But it also it is also strong in it's own right. The story is about black market organ donations and the rich buying the organs needed for medical procedures.
I felt like Gerritsen revealed the layers of plot carefully and kept me interested all the way through. While yes, parts of th More...
Jul 06, 2011
Thom
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Harvest is a great read! The book gives the reader a view of transplant surgery with a twist as only Tess Gerritsen can. If she practiced medicine as well as she can write a really great story then the medical world has lost a treasure. Her knowledge of medicine and the hospital OR makes her stories all the more believable. Harvest is the story of Dr. Abby DiMatteo, a second year surgical resident. Her decision to do what her heart tells her gets her into more trouble than she (or the reader) co
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Apr 08, 2011
Norm
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I finally got around to reading Tess Gerritsen's early books, and I can see why her career took off after Harvest. She.just.writes.smart.
Her medical knowledge notwithstanding, Gerritsen's characters are engaging and strong, and you root for them as she tortures them just for fun. When things are bad, don't worry, they'll get worse. And just when you think you have the twists and turns figured out, everything unravels.
I didn't give this a perfect score because I thought one p More...
Her medical knowledge notwithstanding, Gerritsen's characters are engaging and strong, and you root for them as she tortures them just for fun. When things are bad, don't worry, they'll get worse. And just when you think you have the twists and turns figured out, everything unravels.
I didn't give this a perfect score because I thought one p More...
Mar 09, 2009
LJ
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HARVEST (Med. Thriller-Abby DiMatteo-Boston-Cont) - Ex
Gerritsen, Tess - Standalone
From Fantastic Fiction: At Bayside Hospital, Dr. Abby DiMatteo's career is in serious jeopardy when it is discovered that she helped divert a donor heart to a dying teenager. When a new heart for the intended recipient, a wealthy woman, suddenly appears, Abby questions its origin. Now every move she makes creates a furious backlash, and nothing can prepare her for the grisly final reckoning.
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Gerritsen, Tess - Standalone
From Fantastic Fiction: At Bayside Hospital, Dr. Abby DiMatteo's career is in serious jeopardy when it is discovered that she helped divert a donor heart to a dying teenager. When a new heart for the intended recipient, a wealthy woman, suddenly appears, Abby questions its origin. Now every move she makes creates a furious backlash, and nothing can prepare her for the grisly final reckoning.
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Oct 18, 2011
Seif
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Jul 15, 2010
Kelly
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Abby is a second year surgical intern at Bayside medical center, and is finally getting to where she wants to be in her career. So when a heart becomes available she assumes it will go to the deathly ill 17 year old boy who is crashing multiple times a day and has minimal time left to live. Instead, she's told it'll be going to a 46 year old woman, who is a private patient. Suspicious that she's only getting it because of her money, Abby makes sure the heart gets transplanted to the boy instead.
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Jan 04, 2009
Sheree
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This is Tess Gerritsen's first medical thriller, prior to this she wrote romance. Gerritsen a Doctor, left her profession to concentrate on writing & raising her children. I laughed out loud at the manner in which Tess reports on her blog, the awful comments she gets from fans who love her medical thrillers then sample her romance novels. She tells writers and I think this applies to readers as well - "be prepared when you switch genres."
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Sep 10, 2008
Johnny
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Just when I thought I’d lost the power to be shocked or grossed out by a piece of writing, a game, or a movie/television show, along comes Harvest. I’m not a regular reader of Tess Gerritsen, though I have read one other novel by her (The Sinner). Apparently, Harvest was her first novel. I will have to say that it was far superior to the other one I read.
The novel’s title comes from the process of surgically removing organs from donors (harvesting) to transplant into recipients. The More...
The novel’s title comes from the process of surgically removing organs from donors (harvesting) to transplant into recipients. The More...
Jul 05, 2011
Mary
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This book had me on the edge of my seat as I tried to figure out who were the bad guys! I just started reading Tess Gerritsen and so far I like her writing style. This has to do with heart transplants and a women's plight to find the truth of where organs come from. I do have to warn that there is more swear words in this book than I care for and so I was disappointed in that. I just blank them out when I read, but I don't like them in the book. COME ON AUTHORS-- quit the vulgar language. I
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Jul 23, 2010
Liesbeth
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I love Gerritsen medical thrillers normally.
As mentioned in other reviews, this is her first one. I'm glad she wrote it, as it means she continued writing the other, better ones.
It's ok, not brilliant.
The second half is better, as it gathers up some speed. She writes knowledgably about a subject area she is comfortable with.
The outcome is fairly predictable, her later novels have more twists and turns in them.
Don't let this book put you off Gerritsen though, her bo More...
As mentioned in other reviews, this is her first one. I'm glad she wrote it, as it means she continued writing the other, better ones.
It's ok, not brilliant.
The second half is better, as it gathers up some speed. She writes knowledgably about a subject area she is comfortable with.
The outcome is fairly predictable, her later novels have more twists and turns in them.
Don't let this book put you off Gerritsen though, her bo More...
May 27, 2011
Jennifer
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Time for a thriller. This one is a medical thriller recommended by a bunch of authors I enjoy. hope it lives up to the hype.
This was a good read. A nice break from the fare I have been reading of late. The plot involves doctors, international intrigue, organs-for-money and a little police procedural. To me, there were no big surprises or twists. Maybe because I read too many books like this. It takes a lot for me to really be duped by a mystery anymore. That said, it was a fun More...
This was a good read. A nice break from the fare I have been reading of late. The plot involves doctors, international intrigue, organs-for-money and a little police procedural. To me, there were no big surprises or twists. Maybe because I read too many books like this. It takes a lot for me to really be duped by a mystery anymore. That said, it was a fun More...
Jul 06, 2011
Holly
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I enjoyed this book and would have given it a 5 except the end of the story was wrapped up too nicely and there were too many coincidences. This is a medical mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end. The story is about a 2nd year resident, Abby. She discovers a descrepency in donor organs and questions the possibility of organ harvesting. Everyone begins to think she is crazy and she doesn't know who she can trust.
Jan 21, 2012
Bryan
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I seem to have found a new (to me), enjoyable, mystery/thriller writer in Tess Gerritsen. I enjoyed her "The Silent Girl", and so picked up a couple of her other books from the local library. This was one of them, apparently her first.
This was a very good, fast paced, keep you on the edge of your seat mystery/thriller. I enjoyed it a lot, and am just about to start reading another of hers.
Recommended!
This was a very good, fast paced, keep you on the edge of your seat mystery/thriller. I enjoyed it a lot, and am just about to start reading another of hers.
Recommended!
Oct 14, 2010
Anita
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This was a nice quick read. And another good book involving the medical field. I liked the topic--organ misappropriation does seem plausible. The heroine, Abby (2nd year resident) seemed likable enough. and the personal situations she put herself in/was put in...also seemed real enough. Oh, there were a couple of scenes where my thot was really? but overall liked the book and will read more of this author's.
Jun 01, 2009
Holly
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Harvest is Gerritsen's first medical thriller. It is a wonderfully fast-paced read. The reader is not overwhelmed by all of the medical termininology as it is explained in the dialogue and doesn't dominate the story. The female protagonist's tension grows throughout the story and as a a reader I was drawn into her plight. Organ harvests, medical malpractice, organized crime, and interpersonal conflicts make for a fun read.
