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Title: Mutation of a descent story
Review: Robin Cook's Mutation is a thriller about a Geneticist who plays God with his unborn child. The book builds on that simple idea to create a turbulent reading experience full of confusion and sour feelings from the reader.Mutation, despite some good qualities, lacks a fluid story. This hurts the book as a whole because the plot is broken by descriptions of laboratory equipment, street names, and other things that hold no bearing on the story. In Cook's defense, he does have a strong descriptive knowledge of his equipment.All in all, the book lets the reader down. The broken plot makes understanding the events too hard, and the reader then chooses not to accept them.
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