In Embryo , the time is now. All it takes is one woman, unable to bear her own child, with enough determination and enough money to find a way it can be done. That woman must find the one doctor on Earth who has succeeded in artificial gestation. No matter how much he wants to remain hidden. Embryo jumps from the suburbs of Biloxi to the poverty of rural Mexico and then to the big power of Los Angeles.
Characters appear and disappear almost as quickly as the scene shifts.
Subplots creep in from every side until it seems that the threads will never pull back together into a whole story. You couldn't swing a slot machine without hitting a corpse in this one. Some cutting would be welcome to tighten the narrative up a bit. Some conclusions are so obvious it is almost disappointing when things turn out the way you expect. Some of the characters are shameless stereotypes.