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The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
2001 · Thriller
How it reads
The Surgeon is thriller (medical thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in a big city setting, in the recent past, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are justice, survival and redemption. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- thriller
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- justice, survival, redemption
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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