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Some parts of this book were so boring I almost fell asleep. I have always liked the JD Robb books because they are gritty, have a lot of action and Eve is so dedicated to her job and finding justice that she doesn't sleep or eat when she is on a case like this. A lot of that was missing in this book. The domestic bliss went on and on and on. While I'm glad to see she is happy, I expected more action and more interaction from the players. Some of that interaction felt staged and not real. A good story, but lacking in a lot of other ways.


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Dark in Death An Eve Dallas Novel In Death Book 46 J D Robb Books Reviews

This book is good; however, this book is not the same caliber as her previous books. It lacks depth and the intricacies that normally are a hallmark of her “In Death” series. I found that her fully developed supporting characters merely made cameo appearances, as though to flesh out her story line.

Spoiler alert for the following

The first victim was the victim for veteran Detectives Jenkinson and Reineke. The second victim became Lieutenant Dallas’ and Detective Peabody’s. It was determined that the murder of the first victim was related to the murder of the second victim; therefore, it was natural that the first and second victim “became” Dallas’ and Peabody’s. What is not natural is that, as the first detectives for the first victim, Jenkinson and Reineke were not included in the final take-down of the killer.

Given the psychological challenges of the killer, I was surprised that Dr. Charlotte Mira did not appear throughout the book. The killer had to evolve for the next victim, so it would seem to me that Dr. Mira would have made several appearances. Also, when Dallas and Peabody were the called to the second victim, Dallas concluded that she would somehow become part of the killer’s story. Wouldn’t Dr. Mira be a part of the solution to capturing the killer?

And on a really, really minor note Hate when proofers don’t catch errors. Chapter 21, page 339, sentence “Check private homes that take in borders.” Borders? Really?
I am a guy who happens to like a good detective story with continuing characters. The In Death series has been fun from the beginning. Good story lines, greatly developed characters and very good writing. As in every long lived series, there are going to be some duds. This one happens to be one. The writing and the characters are there but it is just not a very good story. Lousy protagonist, little suspense, just not what I have come to expect from a JD Robb book. Still a below par JD Robb is still better than many of the suspense novels out there.
Unlike her July 2017 offering, Sundown, under her alternate pen name Nora Roberts, this one was at least readable. It checked all the boxes for being mostly acceptable. I knew it was in trouble before I finished the opening sentence, though. "On the mega screen bloody murder played out in classic black and white for an audience of one humdred and seven." If you have to start the first sentence over because the author/editor missed the comma after "screen," you know you're in for a struggle. And how uninspiring is that first line? It's in keeping with the plodding, predictable story arc that follows.

Unfortunately, it also suffered from same structural flaws as Sundown, just to a lesser extent. There were long swaths of back and forth dialog without any context clues about who was talking to whom. It's only slightly easier to puzzle it out when there are only two people in the scene, but I often had to go back and reread an entire page, saying to myself, "Ok, that's Eve. Now that's Roark. Now that's Eve, and then Roarke...no, it's Eve again twice in a row! Aha, that's where it got messed up." The dialog for all the characters are starting to sound so much like one another. Their individual voices are blurred into one generic speech pattern. Combine that with the walls of dialog and you often are forced to pop out of the story and trace back who is saying what to whom. Is it really too much trouble to add, "Peabody paused for moment before continuing" or something like that? Just to orient the reader? Isn't that what an editor should suss out?

Also, like Sundown, there were way too much focus on the interior decorating of all the scenes and the details of each meal. How the paint scheme does or doesn't match the pillows doesn't need to be in every scene. I remember when Eve rarely ate a decent meal and now we're getting detailed descriptions of shepherd's pie and oatmeal. I get that the story needs to paint a picture and needs some surrounding detail, but this was out of proportion.

When I read that a character "liked pretty, bright, and happy," I almost set the book down, because those bland adjectives are becoming grossly cliche in Nora Roberts' stories. Luckily she limited the use of "pretty" to only 3 dozen descriptions. What was different from past In Death books was the noticeable increase in swearing. Eve Dallas used to use it with flair, as a cutting edge. Now it's just common phraseology for any situation. And it's the same with all the characters because they all have the same voice now.

I suspected it last summer, but I'll say it again. Either someone else is writing JD Robb/Nora Roberts' books for her, or she's lost interest, or she has an editor that is failing in due diligence.
I read this in about 12 hours. I will reread, as I rushed through some paragraphs of the endless dialogue.

I am obsessed with this series. I know the entire 46 books/14 short stories series very, very well. I think I’ve read the entire series chronologically about ten times through, possibly more. I read them over and over and just keep going to back to them, I just love them so much. So I feel that I have a good grasp of the characters and stories.

This book was just blah. It needed a side story/another storyline to pump it up. We also had no insight into the killer’s mind, as Robb likes to include. I always want to read about Eve and Roarke off hours (I really wish the reader could get to go on one of their fab vacations where no death occurs), and we got some home time in this book but it wasn’t interesting. I feel like at this point the author needs to miix it up. Eve needs to assist on one of her team’s cases or do something where it is not her case. She always gets the crazy/high profile cases. It would nice to see her support her squad. Or she could support Peabody on a case.

I am rereading Imitation in Death of which Dark in Death has a similar story but Imitation is a WAY BETTER book. This book was a big miss.
Some parts of this book were so boring I almost fell asleep. I have always liked the JD Robb books because they are gritty, have a lot of action and Eve is so dedicated to her job and finding justice that she doesn't sleep or eat when she is on a case like this. A lot of that was missing in this book. The domestic bliss went on and on and on. While I'm glad to see she is happy, I expected more action and more interaction from the players. Some of that interaction felt staged and not real. A good story, but lacking in a lot of other ways.