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Bitter Medicine
by Sara Paretsky
Product Group: Book
Publisher: William Morrow and Co, INC. (1987)
ISBN: 0575040947
EAN: 9780575040946
Hardcover: 324 pages
SKU: CH529
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: 1987 Hardback with dustjacket - Morrow publishing. Great condition from non-smoking home
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Customer Reviews
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Ruined by gratuitous political sub-plot
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-10-23
Paretsky writes her usual solid story, but this book was ruined for me by a gratuitous and rabidly pro-abortion subplot. A pro-life group was depicted as patent and unalloyed evil, while its individual members were characterized as overweight, fanatic dullards. This just didn't work.
This subplot, which adds nothing material to the story, drops this book 2 stars in my rating system.
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Entertaining
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-03-05
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
While it is clear that Paretsky used the story to pontificate around the abortion issue, the story was not (in my opinion) held hostage by her views. Of course, she must have known that those who hold opposing views might be somewhat derailed by her machinations. Apparently she felt it was a risk worth taking. For my part, the story was entertaining and amusing. There were sufficeint plot twists and turns, a romantic interlude, loveable yet annoying characters... all the stuff that makes us enjoy V.I. This is what I call hot-fudge-sundae fiction. I read it for its entertainment value--not intellectual nutrition. YUM!
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Politics over Plotting
Rating (2)
Date: 2003-12-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have read all of the Sara Paretsky mysteries, and think this is the weakest of the group. She maintains her writerly skill, but the plot in this novel feels like it was devised to make a political point about women's access to health care and particularly to abortion. In the process, she takes pot shots at her political opponents by making the characters of those who disagree with her unidimensional, manipulative, and unlikeable. The novel does have suspenseful elements, but not enough, and I just didn't buy the story. If you want to read all the books in the series, this is readable. If you're picking the best, go with Hard Time or Tunnel Vision.
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Bitter Medicine a Bit Sugary
Rating (3)
Date: 2002-04-20
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Good storyline but characters sometimes difficult to discern. Story a little choppy; not as tight as it could be; somewhat maudlin but still it holds the interest until you discover whodunit
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Bad medicine
Rating (2)
Date: 2001-03-25
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Almost interesting, but finally wraps up with stock villians and an implausable resolution. The fact that this is set entirely in the world of doctors and hospitals, healthcare economics, which Ms Paretsky obviously does not understand, dooms the story.
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