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Summary: Always a winner!
Review: I have read most everything Nora Roberts has written, including her Language of Love Series from years ago... I am now reading the JD Robb series featuring Lt. Eve Dallas. WHAT an imagination Roberts has! To imagine the future through her eyes... I love the way Eve and Roarke interact. She is her own person and he loves her for this-never trying to make her something else. And, at the same time, she is able to admit that she needs someone too! I loved Rapture in Death. This is perhaps the best "Death" book so far. The VR Goggles were a trip! The idea of manipulating musical undertones to control a person's behavior... Where does she get her ideas? So believable!
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Summary: interesting and compelling study of humanity
Review: I have read several of the Eve Dallas series and enjoyed them all. I am intrigued by the plots, the several sub plots and the interesting interplay between the characters. The premise of possible mind control is a worry that is perfectly understandable and in this day and age of advancing technology a possibility. The people are people and have all the foibles and frailties of being human which makes the books readable and in fact downright unput-downable. I find the language slightly foul at times but not any worse than I can hear on the local bus emitted from the mouths of the 7 to 11 year olds from the catholic school. Or in any of the recent movies and comedy shows that are on TV for veiwing. I enjoy the books and am waiting for more money so I can get the rest of them.
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Summary: Definite must-read for those who enjoy mysteries & romance!
Review: I have read the first 3 in the series: Naked in Death, Glory in Death & Immortal in Death. I really enjoyed them, Ms. Robb keeps you reading till the very last page. I look forward to reading the rest of the series! My mother who has also read the series with me thinks that the language is occasionally a bit foul, however, I haven't found that it bothers me in the least bit. I thouroughly enjoy reading her novels, thank you Ms. Robb!
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Summary: Doesn't live up to the hype
Review: I have read the first four novels of the Eve Dallas series and, I must confess, I don't understand what all the excitement is about. Because Eve Dallas is such a "kick ass" heroine, I want to like these books. But I find them boring and uninspiring. When the story focuses on Eve grappling with her past, it's interesting. But the other elements -- the futuristic sci-fi, the mystery/thriller and supporting characters -- fall flat. This particular book's plot was not good. First, I knew how the victims were being killed, and who the killer was, about a quarter of the way through the book. And I'm no rocket scientist. So the fact that it took Eve another 100 pages to figure it out was not inspiring. Second, the killer is using "virtual reality" technology to control the victims' minds. But the author spends absolutely no time explaining how this is scientifically possible. How does the brain work? What is the science behind subliminal messages? The author explains none of this, using the cop out (no pun intended) that Eve is a cop and not a scientist. Yet the experts that Eve consults speak in such vague generalizations, it's clear that it is the author who is in above her head.
Another distracting aspect of these novels is that the future described by the author (2058) clearly will not actually exist in 2058. The author significantly overestimated how quickly technology would advance. Fifty years from now, we're NOT going to have a comprehensive auto freeway system in the sky, food replicators, extremely advanced robots that appear convincingly human. We might have one of those, but not all. Again, this just underscores that sci fi is not this author's strong point.
In short, everything about these books seems so dated: the future that seems a rip off of Blade Runner; the retro romance plot (poor girl marries gorgeous billionaire who makes his money in vague business ventures and just wants to take care of said poor girl). Don't think I can read any more of these.
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Summary: I can't wait to read the next one!!!!!!
Review: I just became hooked on the whole Eve Dallas series, and have now read all six published ones. This one was one of the most suspensful of the series, and with each book, you just fall more and more in love with Roarke and Eve, and are rooting for them for the long haul. Ms. Roberts just keeps getting better and better with each one in the series.
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Summary: EVEN BETTER THE SECOND TIME AROUND!
Review: I just picked this title up again to re-read and I've got to say, it is still one of my top two favorites in the In Death series by J.D. Robb. (The other is the very first book in the collection: Naked in Death). "Rapture" introduces us to the newly-wed Roarke and Eve and it underscores not only their physical passion for each other, but their passion for each others minds and spirits. And the underlying murder mystery is excellent, too. I haven't been thrilled with all the In Death books, but I have been thrilled with most of them. And I highly recommend this one.
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Summary: One of the best!
Review: I loved this book and all the others Nora has written, And the reality is in every word of this book and others. Eve Dallas is a strong woman who has been through a terrible child hood and has come out fighting. Nora Roberts is brillant and Peabody is a great character. This book is funny and thrilling and if you think you can do better, well, go ahead and try.
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Summary: The best!!!
Review: I' not really a suspense, mystery or even a sci-fi fan. But after reading the first chapter of the series, I was hooked. I spent hours in the library looking for ALL her books and finally went out and bought them. The plot leaves you biting your nails and dreading the time when you have to stop reading to do something useless like sleep!
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Summary: Ever Delightful
Review: If there was one little thing a regret about Nora's or J.D.'s books is not enough tender moments between Roake and Eve, but hey what the hick this series has me memorized. It always seems to hold me in rupturing delight.
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Summary: Rapture never felt so good!
Review: If you are like me and you never read a sci- fi romance triller, you are in for a treat. Roarke and Dallas make a very good team for two people who have practically nothing in common but love. I've read all six "in Death" books and can't wait for Conspiracy In Death to come out next year. I hope that won't be end of this dynamic duo. Three thumbs up!!! (I borrowed someone elses)
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