Saving Hope
by Liese Sherwood-Fabre
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Pub Date Mar 01 2017 | Archive Date May 31 2019
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Description
Steve Berry, NYT Bestselling author, describes Saving Hope as “a tantalizing premise that toys with the most basic of emotions—a parent’s drive to save their child.”
Alexandra Pavlova must choose: save her daughter...or the world.
In one of Siberia's formerly closed cities, Nadezhda Pavlova’s unemployed parents struggle to provide for her following a bout with pneumonia that weakens her heart. Racked with guilt that her former job in the Soviet Union’s bioweapons labs may have created the child’s heart condition, Alexandra vows to do all she can to save her daughter’s life.
Through Vladimir, a lifelong friend, Alexandra enters the post-Soviet economy and Russia’s gray market. Her association with Vladimir and his Iranian contacts bring them to the attention of an FSB—formerly the KGB—agent. When she learns of a plot to export a deadly virus to Iran, Alexandra must decide whether she can trust Sergei, the FSB agent, to help her save both her daughter and the world.
Advance Praise
Chanticleer Book Reviews says award-winning author Liese Sherwood-Fabre, "comes through with flying colors, creating her cliffhanging thriller not only with literary skill and authenticity regarding life, crime, and medicine in Russia..., but also with great emotion and story-telling ability."
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780998411224 |
| PRICE | $1.99 (USD) |
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Reviewer 446334
Saving Hope is a good thriller set with a plot that does intrigue but characters who interest more.
The story revolves around emotions, actions and realistic conflicts. Alexandra, a female microbiologist-scientist, is determined to help her daughter who requires medical attention for a heart defect she suffers from. However, things don't play in her, or her daughter's, favor and problems arise from realistic but sad circumstances and situations. There are underdeveloped medical facilities and people who clearly don't support the feminist-ic viewpoint of our protagonist.
The poignant scenes and frustration depicted by the lead is too heart-wrenching and is super affecting to a reader. She's a mother and is out to save her child—if this doesn't shout empathy, I don't know what would. The appreciable aspect is how she evolves; her calmness gets peeled layer by layer as the story progresses and makes her come alive for me. I also liked it for the deeper perspective it gave into the Russian systems and used the setting to its fullest. However, it didn't excite me as a thriller. The story isn't plotted as well as it could've been, especially since the focus frequently shifts from the deadly virus that's supposed to be stopped from exporting to her relationships with other characters.
I would recommend this to all those who like a female protagonist you can sympathize with while she's struggling amidst conflicts too realistically sad.
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