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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
Dallas kicks some @$$!
No matter how many In Death books you read, you’ll never see the same thing twice! In this one, she takes down a couple of homegrown terrorists with a twist. Roarke is as sexy as ever, and Peabody grows a little more seasoned. Love these characters!!
No matter how many In Death books you read, you’ll never see the same thing twice! In this one, she takes down a couple of homegrown terrorists with a twist. Roarke is as sexy as ever, and Peabody grows a little more seasoned. Love these characters!!
Delusion is a very different In Death book. The killer(s) used chemical weapons to make people become violent and attack each other, resulting in over 100 painful, angry deaths. With many victims comes the possibility for many motivations, leaving Eve, Peabody and company overworked and out of time. This leads to a much more tense, on-the-edge-of-your-seat feel to the novel. It's great, and a good change of pace in a series that's been mostly about people killing one person at a time. The emotions and intense stakes add considerable weight to the novel. The killer could have had a bit more subtlety, but other than that it's a great novel.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Rating: 3.5 stars
I’ve been reading JD Robb’s IN DEATH series since the ’90s. DELUSION IN DEATH, the latest book in the series, was right up my alley – part psychological thriller with historical religious cults and a good dose of romance, to boot. One of the reasons why I keep coming back to this series is the freshness of each new case that Dallas & co must solve, along with the growing character development of Dallas, her husband Roarke, and their friends. I love continuously seeing how much Eve Dallas has grown as a person when she is able to confide in Peabody the news about her mother and the happenings in Dallas, TX (sidenote: read NEW YORK TO DALLAS if you haven’t). As gruesome as this case was, I perversely enjoyed reading the coming together of the case, and the slickness of the killer.
Overall, this was a fun book to read on a hot summer day.
This review and others can be found on my book blog: MitchiexBooks.
I’ve been reading JD Robb’s IN DEATH series since the ’90s. DELUSION IN DEATH, the latest book in the series, was right up my alley – part psychological thriller with historical religious cults and a good dose of romance, to boot. One of the reasons why I keep coming back to this series is the freshness of each new case that Dallas & co must solve, along with the growing character development of Dallas, her husband Roarke, and their friends. I love continuously seeing how much Eve Dallas has grown as a person when she is able to confide in Peabody the news about her mother and the happenings in Dallas, TX (sidenote: read NEW YORK TO DALLAS if you haven’t). As gruesome as this case was, I perversely enjoyed reading the coming together of the case, and the slickness of the killer.
Overall, this was a fun book to read on a hot summer day.
This review and others can be found on my book blog: MitchiexBooks.
I love these books they are always well written interesting and just fun.
This was fine, a little boring compared to the previous books somehow, even though it was mass-scale terrorism. Honestly I fell asleep for the last hour or so, and didn't really feel like it was worth going back.
After work drinks with coworkers and meeting with friends for dinner is pretty SOP for the business folks of NYC. But what is not SOP is everyone in a bar going insane and attacking each other. Within a span of 12 minutes over 80 people are dead and many others hospitalized.
Lt. Eve Dallas scrambles to figure out what has happened and why. But then the next day a small cafe is hit at lunchtime. Same strange behavior and homicidal actions. It is no longer an isolated incident and with the body count over 100, Homeland Security is brought in because the situation is now classified as domestic terrorism.
So now Eve needs to work with Feds after having bad experiences with HSO, deal with media trying to blow the situation up further AND find the person or persons behind this before they strike again.
+++++
I found this installment of the In Death series rather compelling. Yes it had the requisite sex scene between Eve and Roarke, but it was early on and did not slow down the pace of the plot. The overall pacing, investigation steps and character interaction all made sense and didn't leave me going "wait, what, how?" like I have done with some of the past books in the series.
Lt. Eve Dallas scrambles to figure out what has happened and why. But then the next day a small cafe is hit at lunchtime. Same strange behavior and homicidal actions. It is no longer an isolated incident and with the body count over 100, Homeland Security is brought in because the situation is now classified as domestic terrorism.
So now Eve needs to work with Feds after having bad experiences with HSO, deal with media trying to blow the situation up further AND find the person or persons behind this before they strike again.
+++++
I found this installment of the In Death series rather compelling. Yes it had the requisite sex scene between Eve and Roarke, but it was early on and did not slow down the pace of the plot. The overall pacing, investigation steps and character interaction all made sense and didn't leave me going "wait, what, how?" like I have done with some of the past books in the series.
Nora Roberts/JD Robb has a kind of formula for her stories- and it's not necessarily a bad thing. This was a great read even though there were parts that I felt I've already seen in her other books. I think the evolution and change of Eve's character has been very slow over the years and I'd love to see more of it.
I honestly don't know how she does it. How does J.D.Robb (Nora Roberts) write 34 books in a series and make the latest just as fresh and interesting as the first? The stories themselves are very formulaic, a police procedural with a faint veneer of Science Fiction over the top. That in itself is not the reason why they are so popular, it's the characters we come to read about. Every one of them has developed over the last 34 books into complex people that we know and care about, whilst still staying the same people that we first met way back in 1995.
For that reason anyone who has not read this series, I would not recommend starting here but begin with the first story Naked in Death. You will soon want to read the rest, they are very addictive.
For that reason anyone who has not read this series, I would not recommend starting here but begin with the first story Naked in Death. You will soon want to read the rest, they are very addictive.