Gemini (Cassella) - Book Reviews

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[A] riveting, suspenseful story, full of vivid characters and stirring reflections on medical and genetic issues…. Cassella is a gifted writer, gorgeously animating her landscapes and the forces of nature, underlining her theme that even medicine cannot save her characters from mortality.
Seattle Times


An intensive-care doctor in Seattle grappling with her stagnant relationship and ticking biological clock, Charlotte Reese becomes engrossed in the case of a Jane Doe delivered to her hospital comatose after a highway hit-and-run.... A book at turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, it invites us to accept, if nothing else, that the only way to live is to "cling to every moment even as you into the next.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) The book prompts many questions: Who is Jane Doe? Why has no one come forward to identify her? How long can Charlotte keep this patient alive before an appointed guardian decides that it would be in the woman's best interests to let her die?.... Informed by her work as a doctor, Casella's...offers deepening mysteries to keep the reader turning the pages. —Sheila M. Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC
Library Journal


[A] compelling look at the collision of a physician’s professional and personal lives.... Readers will quickly perceive the connection between Raney and the Jane Doe in Charlotte’s ICU, but they’ll be surprised to discover that the women share another link. A uniquely involving read. —Kristine Huntley
Booklist


...the lives of a doctor and her critically injured patient intertwine in unexpected ways.... Dr. Charlotte [Reese] embarks on a determined quest to solve the puzzle of how this Jane Doe found herself in her present condition. Readers may well overlook Cassella's frequently interjected bromides about love...since this engaging medical mystery makes far more compelling points about economics and sociology.
Kirkus Reviews