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Summary: Book 2 Just as Good!
Review: They just keep getting better and better. Eve and Roarke are perfect for each other, they offset each other in this book. I've read all the books in the series, and this is one of the best ones. I enjoyed it a lot!
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Summary: An Exciting Fun Read after a Hectic Day in the Office.
Review: This book was one of the best in the Eve Dallas Series.
I can't wait for the next book out. This is a great book to read after a grueling day at work. You can really get lost in it, the characters become part of your imagination.
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Summary: Great book by a great author
Review: This is just one of the many great books in this series. I would recommend it and the others to anyone I liked.
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Summary: Should be a TV Series
Review: This is the first J. D. Robb title I've read, and yes it's the second in the "In Death" series. Didn't matter -- it's a gripping, absorbing, riveting read even when you jump into the middle of the series. I'm sure I'd still enjoy reading the prequel. But that fact alone - that the mystery and character relationships "work" whether you've read the previous book or not - makes this series eligible to become a TV series like Murder She Wrote. And there's more. Nora Roberts has sketched her world as being in 2058 and beyond, and has said without showing that interstellar travel exists, interstellar business exists. Presumably nonhuman civilizations must exist too because there's no way we could invent an interstellar drive and create major businesses out there in a mere 55 years. But Roberts has downplayed that background -- at least in this early part of the series. With such a very light hand on the futurology, she has left room for the Studios to decide how big a budget this TV series would need -- and how much solid sf futurology they want to show, and how much they want to leave fuzzy so they can use cheap sets and makeup. In fact, in this novel, the sf part of the background would seem to any sf reader/writer to be non-existent. Some people might complain about that, but I thought it to be a very astute commercial move. It has made me want to read more of these novels in hopes that this background will appear. I would like to see Eve Dallas travel with Roarke to an interstellar setting and solve crimes there -- like Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel. I did note the tribute to Ayn Rand in naming Roarke, and some oblique tributes to Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series in the family issues approached from a totally different direction -- and I found echoes of Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series that I don't think anyone else would see in Eve Dallas's spunk and obvious emotional problems from early childhood. And even beyond that I see a Relationship developing between Eve Dallas and Roarke that is rare and glorious -- a sexual relationship between two people who love each other because each sees the other as admirable. In real life it is rare to see a man admire a woman and love her too though women often love those they admire. This could become a model relationship among equals, mixing romance, mystery, and sociological-sf. There's only one bit of backgrounding missing in this second book that's annoying me. There is no explanation of how it could be that a cop (or in this case several cops) are left to handle a case where they have a personal interest. A conflict of interests like that would be more than sufficient cause to block Eve from working the case she's on. There's got to be some hidden backgrounding there, major changes in the law, major changes in oversight and checks-and-balances due to the use of computers and databases, and maybe due to the influence of non-humans from the galactic civilization that's lurking beyond the edges of perception here. I will want to read the rest of this series as I can lay my hands on them, and I'm already recommending it to readers of my own novels.
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Summary: Should be a TV Series
Review: This is the first J. D. Robb title I've read, and yes it's the second in the "In Death" series. Didn't matter -- it's a gripping, absorbing, riveting read even when you jump into the middle of the series. I'm sure I'd still enjoy reading the prequel. But that fact alone - that the mystery and character relationships "work" whether you've read the previous book or not - makes this series eligible to become a TV series like Murder She Wrote. And there's more. Nora Roberts has sketched her world as being in 2058 and beyond, and has said without showing that interstellar travel exists, interstellar business exists. Presumably nonhuman civilizations must exist too because there's no way we could invent an interstellar drive and create major businesses out there in a mere 55 years. But Roberts has downplayed that background -- at least in this early part of the series. With such a very light hand on the futurology, she has left room for the Studios to decide how big a budget this TV series would need -- and how much solid sf futurology they want to show, and how much they want to leave fuzzy so they can use cheap sets and makeup. In fact, in this novel, the sf part of the background would seem to any sf reader/writer to be non-existent. Some people might complain about that, but I thought it to be a very astute commercial move. It has made me want to read more of these novels in hopes that this background will appear. I would like to see Eve Dallas travel with Roarke to an interstellar setting and solve crimes there -- like Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel. I did note the tribute to Ayn Rand in naming Roarke, and some oblique tributes to Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series in the family issues approached from a totally different direction -- and I found echoes of Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series that I don't think anyone else would see in Eve Dallas's spunk and obvious emotional problems from early childhood. And even beyond that I see a Relationship developing between Eve Dallas and Roarke that is rare and glorious -- a sexual relationship between two people who love each other because each sees the other as admirable. In real life it is rare to see a man admire a woman and love her too though women often love those they admire. This could become a model relationship among equals, mixing romance, mystery, and sociological-sf. There's only one bit of backgrounding missing in this second book that's annoying me. There is no explanation of how it could be that a cop (or in this case several cops) are left to handle a case where they have a personal interest. A conflict of interests like that would be more than sufficient cause to block Eve from working the case she's on. There's got to be some hidden backgrounding there, major changes in the law, major changes in oversight and checks-and-balances due to the use of computers and databases, and maybe due to the influence of non-humans from the galactic civilization that's lurking beyond the edges of perception here. I will want to read the rest of this series as I can lay my hands on them, and I'm already recommending it to readers of my own novels.
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Summary: This series is worth your time!
Review: This is the second book in the Eve Dallas series. In this futuristic world cars fly, only rich people can drink real coffee, guns are prohibited and the death penalty has been banned since 2012. Robb's imagination for putting all this together is admirable! The mystery plot is also very good, with a killer taking out powerful women and several people popping up as likely suspects. The final added touch is the personal relationship between Eve and billionaire Roarke. Both characters carry an emotional baggage from their childhood which is revealed little by little through the book (and will likely continue to be revealed in next installments). With an interesting plot and full of colorful characters this book (and this series) is a must read!
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Summary: Feminism???
Review: What on earth is wrong with Eve? In the real world a man like Roarke (who is allegedly smart) would have dumped Eve a long time ago. The woman is cold and even though the writer tries to make us think Eve is actually a warm person deep deep deep inside I am not buying. I have one more question, is this a romance or a mystery book? Either way it fails. Romance is just not there and as far as the mystery goes I knew who the killer was after ten pages or so. Kill the death series!!
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Summary: "Glory In Death" is to Die for
Review: With a mother who can't see very well, I have become something of an expert on Audiobook Narrators. Susan Ericksen is one of a very few Narrators who could infuse meaning into a reading of the local telephone directory. Using all her tricks, this lady makes her rendition of "Glory In Death" well worth hearing. Not that I am implying the book is not wonderful without her help - but when you must listen to hear a book, the Narrator MUST be good enough to get you hooked on "page" one. I was very interested to see how she would handle a very significant fight between Rourke & Eve, not to mention the ramblings of the killer's monologue (I think it's mandatory - all killers since Iago on have gotten a monologue to themselves) and she got through it all without a hesitation or a hitch. Enough reviews have been written that I need not go into the plot here, but I will say - I can't WAIT for "Immortal"! Although the abridged version is not bad as far as moving the story along, time considerations meant that Eve's scene with Whitney after her nightmare never all got into the abriged version - and I REALLLYYYY want that scene - plus a few others not in some of the other abridgements - put back in in its complete format! There are some 8 more abridged books available - Immortal, Rapture, Vengeance, Holiday, Loyalty, Witness, Betrayal, & Judgement and I devoutly hope that ALL of them eventually get re-done in Unabridged. Maybe if thare is enough of a demand - they might even do the 2 short In Death stories too. That would be wonderful. Here's hoping!
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