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Venom
by
Joan Brady
Recently released from prison, David Marion didn't expect to find a hitman at his door. Warned that a powerful secret organisation is after him, David goes underground and off the radar--waiting for the perfect moment to wreak revenge.
Physicist Helen Freyl has just accepted a job offer from a giant pharmaceutical company who are close to finding a cure for radiation poison...more
Physicist Helen Freyl has just accepted a job offer from a giant pharmaceutical company who are close to finding a cure for radiation poison...more
Hardcover, 470 pages
Published
August 3rd 2010
by Simon & Schuster
(first published February 4th 2010)
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An unlikely relationship takes place between Helen Freyl and David Marion. Helen is from a very well to do famly in Alabama and David is from a broken home and an ex-convict.
Helen was given at an early age a birthday present of a bee farm. It is discovered that the bees being raised on the farm have venom that is very unique. The venom seems to retard the effects of radiation poisoning and can actually repair damage done by radiation and protect from future radiation poisoning.
On can only image...more
Helen was given at an early age a birthday present of a bee farm. It is discovered that the bees being raised on the farm have venom that is very unique. The venom seems to retard the effects of radiation poisoning and can actually repair damage done by radiation and protect from future radiation poisoning.
On can only image...more
This book left me very surprised. We meet Helen Freyl who I take an instant dislike to. We also meet David Marion who is less than a pleasant character however I find myself still reading. I could not understand why. Had the publishers put glue on the cover? No but for some reason I find myself drawn back to it constantly.
The story starts violently and despite Helen's early unawareness of the danger she is in, the reader is aware and wonders why. I found myself wanting to say "Why don't they all...more
The story starts violently and despite Helen's early unawareness of the danger she is in, the reader is aware and wonders why. I found myself wanting to say "Why don't they all...more
Feb 01, 2010
JG (The Introverted Reader)
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This book was so complicated, I don't even know where to start with a synopsis. David Marion is an ex-con who receives advance notice of a hit on his life. He escapes and learns that a mega-corporation, UCAI, was behind it. At the same time, Dr. Helen Freyl, who has a complicated past with David, learns that UCAI is trying to get their hands on a patent she holds on some honeybee venom and they'll stop at nothing to get their hands on it.
Let me say first of all that I received an ARC of this boo...more
Let me say first of all that I received an ARC of this boo...more
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FYI - I wasn't thinking when I sent my request to Simon and Shuster to review the latest Jennifer Estep novel Venom, and totally forgot to put the authors name in the request. That is why I got a copy of this particular book to review. This is not my type of book, so I just want you readers to know that before I do the review. Anybody willing to come to Humber College or pay for shipping, this book is yours.
The Good Stuff
* Author builds up a convincing back story and keeps you guessing on what...more
The Good Stuff
* Author builds up a convincing back story and keeps you guessing on what...more
This is my first ARC review, courtesy of a fellow Twitter friend, who's doing the Suspense/Thriller Challenge this year. She mentioned about doing ARCs earlier this year, in lieu of the challenge. I got the book in January and have been reading this thriller for almost two weeks. I'm only doing an abridged version of my review here. See my book blog review blog at http://kristensbookjungle.blogspot.com/ for a full review on this story. This is a sequel to Bleedout from Joan Brady. What does corp...more
Helen's grandmother gave her a bee farm when she was 8 years old. The honey is bitter, but the venom is patented and seems to hold scientific promise. When an offer to buy the bee farm is made for $5 million, Helen demurs and seeks to find out why. Why would a multi-national corporation want her tiny bee farm? From London to Chernobyl, just what is up? Her practically "dream lover" is newly out of prison (for killing her father)and she sends an SOS. She thinks he's dead, and is quite surprised w...more
Fast-paced global thriller. Entertaining read. 'Venom' of the title refers both to the extract from bees, and to the vicious hostility generated by human ego greed.
Main characters are well developed - some events seem a bit far-fetched, but not so much as to be fanciful.
Before reading this novel, I did not know about the research into bee venom as a treatment for radiation sickness - an especially timely topic just now, in light of the current nuclear fallout in Japan. Learning something new is...more
Main characters are well developed - some events seem a bit far-fetched, but not so much as to be fanciful.
Before reading this novel, I did not know about the research into bee venom as a treatment for radiation sickness - an especially timely topic just now, in light of the current nuclear fallout in Japan. Learning something new is...more
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This is book has a story that could actually happen. It's not the kind of suspenseful story that is so over the top you like but think "this could never happen".
In that way it's a good book, but it is also because of that that it isn't as enjoyable as I'd expect.
The suspense is there, but it could've been handled better. I could predict mostly every turn in this story, but well, that usually happens with every book (my head works in ways even I can't comprehend).
I...more
This is book has a story that could actually happen. It's not the kind of suspenseful story that is so over the top you like but think "this could never happen".
In that way it's a good book, but it is also because of that that it isn't as enjoyable as I'd expect.
The suspense is there, but it could've been handled better. I could predict mostly every turn in this story, but well, that usually happens with every book (my head works in ways even I can't comprehend).
I...more
The first half of this novel is pretty slow-paced and at times incredibly complicated. I felt that too many characters were being introduced too early into the story and I had a hard time keeping track of who everybody was and how they were involved in the storyline. It wasn’t until nearer the end that all of the characters were brought together and I felt less confused.
However, the second half of the novel really picks up the pace and is so full of action and unexpected plot developments that I...more
However, the second half of the novel really picks up the pace and is so full of action and unexpected plot developments that I...more
***really 2.5 but not quite a 3 - a bit hard to rate this one***
This book is a little hard for me to review. It is a good story but I thought sometimes it was too higgledy piggledy. There seemed at times too much going on, storylines expanded which didn’t seem to make much difference in the end and then there were a couple of storylines I would have liked expanded more but were left a little light in content.
Helen Freyl is a physicist who is offered a position at a huge pharmaceutical company bu...more
This book is a little hard for me to review. It is a good story but I thought sometimes it was too higgledy piggledy. There seemed at times too much going on, storylines expanded which didn’t seem to make much difference in the end and then there were a couple of storylines I would have liked expanded more but were left a little light in content.
Helen Freyl is a physicist who is offered a position at a huge pharmaceutical company bu...more
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The story was really convoluted. There was too much going on, too many characters, and the two main characters were one-dimensional and unlikable.
Mar 19, 2010
Harvee
marked it as to-read
By Joan Brady, originally from California and now living and writing from Oxford, England.
I skipped from David to David. Helen was a little hard to take.
Feb 13, 2011
Lori
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total waste of my time and the world's supply of paper
Will not get anymore of this authors books
Feb 16, 2013
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Marcia - Book Muster Down Under
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Joan Brady is an American-British writer. She is the first woman and American to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her novel Theory of War.
She was married to writer Dexter Masters and has a son who is also an author: Alexander Masters.
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Joan Brady is an American-British writer. She is the first woman and American to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her novel Theory of War.
She was married to writer Dexter Masters and has a son who is also an author: Alexander Masters.
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