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Nano (2012)

by Robin Cook(Favorite Author)

3.05 of 5 Votes: 7

ISBN

0399160825 (ISBN13: 9780399160820)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Putnam Adult

review 1: Hats off to Robin Cook for creating one of the most unlikeable protagonists in the history of fiction. Pia is a downright intolerable character. She has some sort of disorder that makes her socially awkward and unable to look people in the eye; it also makes her rude, overly nosey, inconsiderate, and pushy. If Cook's plan was to make this some sort of endearing quality, then he failed. What he did was create a character that the reader disliked and found themselves rooting against; I didn't care what happened to her.Oh, and of course Pia is smoking hot and every man that encounters her(even a gay guy) is magnetically drawn to her and just can't help themselves. Here's what gets me, how is it that a woman who is socially awkward, avoids human interaction, and rarely has sex... more, rarely find herself attracted to anyone, suddenly some master seductress who can dance better than your average stripper?On to the story. You have a company called Nano that specializes in the research and development of Nano technology. Pia is one of the main brainiacs behind this, but she, just like other employees of Nano only knows a small portion of what's really going on and believes that her research is benign.The head of the company has a deal with the Chinese where they are providing Nano with virtually unlimited capital and guinea pigs to run tests on. The test subjects are Chinese athletes(runners and cyclists). An incident at a hospital where one of the test subjects was brought in after collapsing and then later taken away by armed Nano security guards led by Pia's boss before any tests could be ran on him by the hospital, got the whole ball rolling on Pia's relentless mission to find out what's going on.This had the ingredients for a decent thriller. Shady organization conducting illegal experiments, noble, suspicious employee trying to get to the bottom of it(too bad she's such a lousy character), and nanotech; Somehow, some way, Robin Cook made nanotechnology, something I am intrigued by, boring. He really dropped the ball on the execution of this one. Michael Crichton's "Prey" is immensely more entertaining.Now the ending. . .well, who knows what happened to Pia? If he ended it this way so that he could give us a third book starring this character, count me out. Of all the character to star in multiple books. . .her?Read Michael Crichton's "Prey" if you want a much better story dealing with nanotech.
review 2: My very first Robin Cook read, and unfortunately it was quite a disappointment.The writing was awful, as were the characters he put together. Everything just struck me as "and this is important in the story because..."???? And then there was the ending?? What the heck! Did he have a Pre determined amount of pages to meet and run out of space or something?? That whole part of the story I just kept thinking: now how is he going to wrap this all together??? This story was a lemon. less

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