Review: OUT-OF-THE-SHOOT ACTION
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
This third Embryo thriller by author J.A. Schneider opens with a gripping scene that never fully releases the reader until it delivers a satisfying denouement.Schneider’s fast paced narrative makes this reading experience feel more like a midnight roller coaster ride. Non-stop drama tugs the reader along, only slowing now and then to build new tension toward the next pinnacle before racing forward again.Jill Raney, on the final leg of a year-long internship, and Dr. David Levine are keeping close watch over a baby “born” under unprecedented circumstances. Fanatics are crawling out of the woodwork to protest the birth as work of the devil. Then someone goes beyond vocal demonstration, deciding to take action against a child that was produced other than “the way God intended.”Religious beliefs as well as interpretations of the Bible are questioned and tested over the child’s unorthodox, in vitro fertilization - IVF, fertilizing an egg by sperm outside the body. The theme of this novel offers opportunity for open discussion about alternate choices to “giving birth”, along with IVF ethical ramifications such as “left-over eggs” and “savior siblings”.