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A review by obsidian_blue
Passions in Death: an Eve Dallas Thriller by J.D. Robb
5.0
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
So this is the 59th "In Death" book. I honestly have to say when Robb just focuses on "small" murders the series really works better. I think having Eve go "international" and always catching some serial killer who has eluded people for decades just doesn't work anymore. At this point, you think the feds would be begging her to join and or have her do cold cases or something. Ahem. I digress.
"Passions in Death" has some really great parts. We have the return of Crack and Rochelle. They are honestly my favorite couple in the series at the moment. We rarely see Charles and Louise anymore. And I am heartily sick of Nadine and whathisface. So with "Passions" we have a double bridal party at the Down and Dirty, one of the brides turns up murders which makes things all kinds of personal for Crack and also Eve and Peabody.
High points, honestly all of the characters sing in this one. You just feel like you are getting more time with everyone. And for once everyone is doing their duly appointed jobs. You don't have Eve just going by to give face time to Mira. Mira is actually there to point out what the profile is saying and what she thinks because Eve is (shockingly) stuck between thinking two people could have murdered one of the brides. And honestly you are left guessing almost to the end (which one again thank you!).
I won't lie, I skipped the house talk/renovation anytime it was mentioned. McNabb and Peabody were actually okay, once again, because you get to see them at work and you can see the sweetness between them (there's a sweet scene where Eve seems them walking and holding hands). It's very reminiscent of how Eve won't let Roarke kiss or touch her near the other cops.
Even Summerset had some funny parts (he and Galahad man).
The secondary characters we get to meet via the brides were great too. I don't want to spoil, but once again, I think that it's great how Robb is incorporating a lot of things going on right now into her futuristic books and I appreciated it a lot.
The flow was great and the setting of New York in 2061 doesn't feel that far away anymore. Even though we don't have all of the tech that Eve and Roarke do.
There's a side story that is tossed in about Roarke's work that was really not necessary (sorry, not sorry) and there's another side story about buying Mavis baby gifts that made my eyes glaze over. That still wasn't enough for me to knock this down because this is one of the latter series books that I can see myself reading again and again. I just kept going I needed one more scene with the murderer and or to see things five years in the future because I loathed the person that much.
So this is the 59th "In Death" book. I honestly have to say when Robb just focuses on "small" murders the series really works better. I think having Eve go "international" and always catching some serial killer who has eluded people for decades just doesn't work anymore. At this point, you think the feds would be begging her to join and or have her do cold cases or something. Ahem. I digress.
"Passions in Death" has some really great parts. We have the return of Crack and Rochelle. They are honestly my favorite couple in the series at the moment. We rarely see Charles and Louise anymore. And I am heartily sick of Nadine and whathisface. So with "Passions" we have a double bridal party at the Down and Dirty, one of the brides turns up murders which makes things all kinds of personal for Crack and also Eve and Peabody.
High points, honestly all of the characters sing in this one. You just feel like you are getting more time with everyone. And for once everyone is doing their duly appointed jobs. You don't have Eve just going by to give face time to Mira. Mira is actually there to point out what the profile is saying and what she thinks because Eve is (shockingly) stuck between thinking two people could have murdered one of the brides. And honestly you are left guessing almost to the end (which one again thank you!).
I won't lie, I skipped the house talk/renovation anytime it was mentioned. McNabb and Peabody were actually okay, once again, because you get to see them at work and you can see the sweetness between them (there's a sweet scene where Eve seems them walking and holding hands). It's very reminiscent of how Eve won't let Roarke kiss or touch her near the other cops.
Even Summerset had some funny parts (he and Galahad man).
The secondary characters we get to meet via the brides were great too. I don't want to spoil, but once again, I think that it's great how Robb is incorporating a lot of things going on right now into her futuristic books and I appreciated it a lot.
The flow was great and the setting of New York in 2061 doesn't feel that far away anymore. Even though we don't have all of the tech that Eve and Roarke do.
There's a side story that is tossed in about Roarke's work that was really not necessary (sorry, not sorry) and there's another side story about buying Mavis baby gifts that made my eyes glaze over. That still wasn't enough for me to knock this down because this is one of the latter series books that I can see myself reading again and again. I just kept going I needed one more scene with the murderer and or to see things five years in the future because I loathed the person that much.