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Summary: The Quality We've Come to Expect From J.D. Robb...
Review: The basic storyline of the book centers around a government agency called the HSO (Homeland Security Organization) and Eve's battle with the agency, which instead of destroying terrorists, has become a government-sponsored terrorist group itself. More as it becomes clear that the agency was aware of and ignored Eve's horrible childhood, a conflict arises between Roarke and Eve. Roarke will be forced to make a choice...go after those who allowed his beloved Eve to suffer or do nothing in order not to cause Eve still more pain. Essentially this book is good in two ways...It provides an excellent mystery as well as allowing for the tension and development and, in the end, the testing of Eve and Roarke's marriage. For oldtimers to the series, this is one of the best, and I definately recommend it. For newcomers, this isn't a bad book to start with, though I'd suggest starting with the first book, Naked In Death, and working your way up to it. But regardless, enjoy the book. Escape into the future and like me, fantasize that you too are married to Roarke.
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Summary: Might be the best so far!
Review: "Divided in Death" is the 18th book in the "In Death" by J.D. Robb and it might be the best so far. The starts out with a call in the night that an employee of Roarke's has just found her husband and best friend in bed together dead! As Eve and Roarke start investagation, the past a brought up and this news divides Eve and Roarke and test their marriage.
This a great book! Ilove that in each book the reader learns more about the pasts of book Eve and Roarke. Also, Ms. Robb continues to develop the main and minor characters in great fashion. Can't wait to the next book in the series This was a great book!
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Summary: Eve and Roarke at their best
Review: As always, part of what I love with Robb is the development of Eve and Roarke. Parts of the book dragged (as most books sometimes do) but I still love how things are between Eve and Roarke. Favorite part of the book is when they resolve their differences.
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Summary: J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) strkes again.
Review: Great addition to the series. We started with the beginning
title that is "NAKED In DEATH" and have held that title
to be the best until now. Divided in Death breaks from any
set formula, stretching the usual beloved team behind
Eve Dallas to solve a horrid murder investigation. Highly
recommend!
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Summary: One of the Best in the Series
Review: I enjoy all of the books in the " . . . In Death" series, but this one stands out as one of my favorites, largely because it focuses more on Roarke and Eve's passionate marriage. As the multi-layered case unfolds, these two confront an issue that cuts to the heart of who they are as people: Roarke wants vengeance; Eve wants to leave justice to the law or God. The fights Eve and Roark have over this conflict are very well-written and engaging and the eventual resolution is satisfying and believable.
I do admit, however, to feeling some irritation with Eve in this novel. In most of the stories, Roarke is impossibly patient and quick to accept fault, even when Eve is being abrasive and defensive. I like Eve when she's edgy and tough, but at the same time, there are times when she crosses a line into unjustified bitchiness. There's one confrontation in this novel that made me very much want Eve to apologize to Roarke. It'd be nice to see a storyline in which Roarke pushed Eve away and she had to put aside her obsession with her job to truly be there for him, as he is always there for her.
The mystery at the heart of the novel is a good one, with a few twists that I didn't see coming. I found the very end to be a bit of a letdown, but overall, there's plenty of suspense and strong character development.
If you read these books more for the Eve/Roarke marriage and less for the mystery plots, I think this will be one of your favorites in the series, too. Robb/Roberts has a talent for keeping the central couple interesting, complex, and root-able. This book took the characters to a new level and showed them becoming more emotionally intimate in a very satisfying way.
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Summary: Excellent Book,, but....
Review: I have read all of the "in Death" books, and will continue to read them. This is a great addition, however I must say the rhapsodizing that Eve and Roarke do seems just, well silly....
These characters love each other, that much we know. We know the depth of their love for one another, but there are more than a few spots in the book where Eve just seems to break character so that she can wax romantic about her handsome husband.
Roarke's gushing over his wife is a little more believable, but what I find trite is at the start of every single one of these little episodes the characters have to rehash their bad childhoods. Did they forget since the last time they went over it? Have the details changed? No, I would just love to see Robb move these characters past their 'revalations' about their childhoods and let them move on to a different area of their relationship.
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Summary: still going strong
Review: i totally love j.d robb stories of eve
when eve's past came back to haunt her. her reaction and those of the people who love her and know of her painful past was great reading.
sorry cant tell you more !!
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Summary: I love this series...
Review: I was really looking forward to reading this one on my trip back from Lotusphere, as it was released the last week of January. But she crossed me up by not going directly to paperback, and I can't pay $21 for a book I'll read in two days. So, after a relatively short wait at the library, I was able to enjoy my favorite author.. Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb in Divided In Death. And it was well worth the wait. In this latest offering, Eve Dallas is asked by Rourke to handle a possible murder case that appears to have been committed by his head of security, Eva Ewing. Rourke has a real fondness for the lady and her mother, and wants Dallas to make sure it's not a setup. The murder was of Ewing's husband and her best friend when she learns of the affair they were having. The lovers are killed in bed and everything points to Ewing as the killer. But for Dallas, it's just a bit "too" clean, and she quickly clears Ewing of the murder. But if not her, who? The plot revolves around spies for a Homeland Security group, a rouge hacker underground, Rourke's security company, and the brother of the husband. Plenty of twists and turns in this plot. And for character development, Rourke hacks the computer files of the Homeland Security group and finds out some previously unknown information involving Eve's childhood traumas. He wants to kill those responsible, but Dallas knows she can't be a cop and stand aside if she knows what Rourke wants to do. They have to determine what's most important to each of them as they work through this crisis. As usual, great story and wonderful characters. I'm really glad that Roberts can crank these out so quickly, as I am forever waiting for the next one in the series to come out each time I finish the current one.
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Summary: Murder Weapon -- Pul-eeze!
Review: Okay, I keep jumping in to review this series. Since I'm on the last book, I must be enjoying them. Definitely light-weight reading, the sort of romantic fantasies with which a teenage girl would populate her imagination. Then again, I'm well beyond the teen years, so perhaps these "fannish" plots push buttons within us all. I also confess I just started reading this book, so I can't comment on the plot or the characters, although I've certainly addressed these subjects in my reviews of other books in the "...In Death" series. No, this time my complaint surfaced early: with the murder weapon. A knife. Okay, that's cool. But from among the assortment of kitchen knives ranging from the paring variety to the largest chef's knife, what does Ms. Robb choose as her murder weapon? A bread knife. You know, a bread knife of the "blunt end, serrated blade" variety. What did the killer do -- saw the victim to death? Then again, what does it matter when the characters are so delightful that the mystery hardly matters. I guess it matters to me, for I am an veteran mystery reader. I just hope all this light reading hasn't dulled my senses for a meaty crime novel!
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Summary: MUST READ!!!
Review: This is one of Ms. Robb's best book. All the characters hade something to offer, which makes this a very interesting book.
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