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Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb

vandermeer's review against another edition

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1.0

Beim Abschuss einer Laserwaffe muss man auf die Windgeschwindigkeit achten. NEINEINEIN! Plus schmalzig.

messy678's review

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challenging dark emotional mysterious

4.0

sparklelys's review against another edition

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5.0

You don't get to Bella's birthday party until the end of the book, but it's mentioned thruout as an upcoming event. And Bella is the perfect, perfect capper to the book. Mavis & Leonardo, you're doing it right.

ki_cher_07's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

amethystbookwyrm's review

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Thanks to Netgalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for giving me this book to review.

It is January 2061 and New York is recovering from the Festive Season, when a mysterious sniper starts a killing spree. Are the victims as random as they seem or is there method in the madness? Lt Eve Dallas is the primary investigator with the NYPSD. How will she and her team be able to find a killer who can strike from miles away?

I enjoyed this book, which is the 43rd in the series because it goes back to the tried and trusted format of knowing who the killer is from an early stage, but the challenge is in trying to find and capture them. As usual, the Eve Dallas and Rourke books have fast paced action, interspersed with logic, and some quite spicy bits. While it is set in the future, it is in a world which you can imagine progressing from ours, which is not too dissimilar to the present, but with some very cool gadgets.

Eve Dallas is, as usual, focussed and intense, her husband, Rourke, is too good to be true, but I always enjoy reading about her NYPSD partner, Delia Peabody. She is such a grounded character, who, whilst dedicated to her job, also has everyday gripes and worries, such as the size of her butt, or whether she can afford those shoes!

As usual, I enjoyed Apprentice in Death as J D Robb’s recent “in Death” books have been quite political or with lots of twists and turns, and this was a welcome return to the more “outthinking the bad guy” type cop book. I would recommend Apprentice in Death to any readers of other J D Robb novels, people who enjoy reading Nora Roberts (same author, different pen-name), or people who enjoy good crime novels.

This and my other reviews can be found at Amethyst Bookwyrm

anbananova's review against another edition

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4.0

nora roberts aka j.d. robb

okay so nora roberts (or j.d.robb in this case as her pseudonym) was my favorite author growing up. her books were my introduction to the romantic books addiction. this series about eve dallas the homicide detective i started years ago but i stopped bc there weren’t any translated books available as at the time i read everything in my native language. so recently i got reminded of the beginning of my reading journey so i decided to reconnect i guess with this series and all other books of nora roberts that i didn’t have a chance to read. i’m actually nervous bc i was really young when i got introduced to her work so i’m afraid my memories of her books won’t stand my current judgement of romance books and i’ll get disappointed.


it was so nostalgic for me to read the series again. i wasn’t disappointed. the only thing i forgot about it that these books are first detectives and romances second. yes there’s a romantic storyline. but it’s a steady force between eve and her husband roarke. they are together more times that not, working on cases in tandem even though roarke isn’t a cop. there’s little to no smut as the accent of the book is on the police work.

i loved roarke and eve together. they were together for more that 2 years at this point and their connection was still strong.

“The odds of me finding where those strikes initiated? I wouldn’t bet on me.”
He reached over, covered her hand with his. “I would.”
“Yeah, but you’re rich, and soft on me.”


i didn’t know i missed the world of this series and its humor. it was like returning home, everything was so familiar and comforting.

“Peachy.” She stuck her head back out. “Why isn’t it appley or melony, or just fruity?”

“Why ‘break a leg’? How the hell can you dance if you break a leg?”

“Just hold your water, Lieutenant.”
“What does that even mean?”
“Don’t piss yourself,” Feeney informed her.
“Then it oughta be ‘don’t piss yourself.”

“I mean others. The others who crawl or walk like drunks with their hands waving, or zip around like Bella.”
“Ah, as in children.”


i loved roarke for that.

“Don’t you even know what you drink?”
“Roarke’s coffee.”
“Which has several blends. Yours is Dallas.


the beginning was a little bit slow and hard to dive into bc the book had so many professional acronyms that i should’ve known i guess if i read prevent books in english. but after about 10-15% of the book i got used to the terminology and the phrases and the plot increased its speed so much that i couldn’t put this book down. and yes i am going to start the next book immediately after posting this.

smalltownbookmom's review against another edition

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3.0

Not bad but not one of the more compelling stories in this series.

curls's review against another edition

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4.0


“You don’t even cook.”
“I can if I have to, and why not have a fabulous space for catering? It so happens I have Dallas blend stocked.”
“What blend?”
“Don’t you even know what you drink?” Nadine asked as she slid open a black panel to an AutoChef.
“Roarke’s coffee.”
“Which has several blends. Yours is Dallas.”


I love Roarke.

joshuamt's review against another edition

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3.0

An early morning jetlag read that I nabbed from my Mom's book-stacks.

I had never heard of JD Robb (real name: Nora Roberts) or her "in death"series starring super-cop Eve Dallas and her Irish, billionaire computer-genius, ex-criminal husband Roarke. Yeah, a bit over the top, but pleasantly distracting. The police-romance genre series is set in 2061, which adds a mild sci-fi spice that helped me palate the cheesy romantic forays.