This book follows the story of the origin of a few different Ebola and Ebola-type viruses. Might not sound fascinating, but Preston makes the book reaThis book follows the story of the origin of a few different Ebola and Ebola-type viruses. Might not sound fascinating, but Preston makes the book read like fiction, but scarily enough, it's not. These are some nasty viruses! The book follows both the origin of these viruses, plus the outbreak of one of the viruses in a laboratory monkey facility and the elaborate steps that had to be followed to stop it from spreading. I hate animal testing... those poor monkeys that should never have been in that situation to begin with, but at the same time, this nonfiction story really is fascinating. ...more
Hannah Wolfe is a private investigator, but usually her jobs are pretty mundane. She is hired to “protect” a 14-year old girl, Mattie, for o3.25 stars
Hannah Wolfe is a private investigator, but usually her jobs are pretty mundane. She is hired to “protect” a 14-year old girl, Mattie, for one day. She has been told that Mattie’s mother may try to kidnap her. Mattie’s father is a scientist who, in trying to find a cure for cancer, tests on animals. Things go very wrong, and Hannah is left to figure out how it all happened.
It was all right, although if I put it down, I wasn’t really all that compelled to pick it up again real soon. I was afraid there might be parts that would be difficult for me to read, depending how much detail she went into in describing some of the animal testing, but it wasn’t as bad as I was afraid it might be. ...more
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