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A review by 55_sallymander
The Vines by Shelley Nolden
5.0
The Vines by Shelley Nolden
Imagine the Natzis doing medical experiments on innocent people, now imagine this going on for hundreds of years. That's what this book is about.
The men in the Gettler family have a sadistic streak. They focus all of their experiments upon one poor young woman in New York at a quarantine hospital on North Brother Island. They know she can overcome any disease and doesn't look like she ages beyond 18. They do horrible experiments on her while the hospital is open and even after it closes. She is a prisoner of the island and the Gettler men.
The book is some fantasy and possibly some truth to it also. Mostly fiction, though. I liked it but felt for poor Cora whom they did all of their experimentings on.
I received a complimentary copy of #TheVines from #NetGalley I was under no obligation to post a review.
Imagine the Natzis doing medical experiments on innocent people, now imagine this going on for hundreds of years. That's what this book is about.
The men in the Gettler family have a sadistic streak. They focus all of their experiments upon one poor young woman in New York at a quarantine hospital on North Brother Island. They know she can overcome any disease and doesn't look like she ages beyond 18. They do horrible experiments on her while the hospital is open and even after it closes. She is a prisoner of the island and the Gettler men.
The book is some fantasy and possibly some truth to it also. Mostly fiction, though. I liked it but felt for poor Cora whom they did all of their experimentings on.
I received a complimentary copy of #TheVines from #NetGalley I was under no obligation to post a review.