Shock by Robin Cook

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Thebook that I chose to read for this book fair is called “Shock” by Robin Cook. The main characters are Joanna and Deborah. Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, close friends and fellow grad students, that see an ad on a newspaper saying that they are willing to pay 45thousand dollars if they donated eggs to the clinic. The girls look at each other and get really excited. Joanna was really suspicious of doing this risk. Deborah and Joanna fantasized as if they were in Italy. They respond to a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic northwest of Boston is willing to pay 45thousand dollars to a few attractive, slim, athletic Ivy-league egg donors. The women are pleased to be accepted into the donor program by the Wingate Infertility Clinic, and the procedures are done quickly, with minimal inconvenience. Both women are impressed by the clinic and its personnel. With her background in biology, Joanna didn’t use any type anesthesia so she could see what was happening while Deborah used the medication, milk of amnesia and she Deborah applauds the organization's commitment to research, while Joanna is curious on what happens to their eggs that had been donated. After the procedures are done and arrive at their apartment, they decide that going to Italy would be a splendid idea. The two girls bought tickets so they can go to Venice. They rented a two-bedroom condominium, the friends splurge on an extended trip to Venice for two months. When they return, Joanna can't resist the urge to look into the fate of their donated eggs. They call Wingate to tell them who or what happened to their eggs. They said that was classified information. That would probably be the climax of the story. Then they figured out that they could work at the clinic because when they first came in, the doctor told them that
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