Naked in Death

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Eve and Feeney review the videos the murderer sent them; Feeney tells her they were made on a Trident MicroCam, and that Roarke Industries owns (103). I agree with your assessment that Roarke is a creation of female fantasy (sigh), and as such, this won’t ever translate for AJH. Sorry, but it’s true. :) But, AJH we ALL appreciate your strong stance against violence towards women. Thanks for being such a stand up guy.

mix of sarin and sulfur trioxide (drugged, then convinced to handle improperly sealed nerve gas egg) I think the problem with the weaker opponent line is that it’s not really followed through in practice – obviously I’m not talking about the books here, I’m talking about life in general. There are certain categories of person who are socially designated as being unable to defend themselves – women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities – but it does not , for example, include men who aren’t conventionally masculine.

It’s old-fashioned in that it would be more apt to say you dislike brutalizing people, in any form.” I love “have sex, have dinner, fight” as a summary of all relationships. And, weirdly, it’s probably kind of true. I can see how seeing that much space given to an evolving central relationship could be really appealing because in most romances I’ve read you just kind of get the edited highlights (and that’s okay, but it’s always nice to see something different).

Tina: and @ FD: I read the series in one long glom in the mid-2000’s, right before the series went hardcover. And I didn’t find it dated, in part because despite my persistent dislike of Roarke (he was too controlling there for a while, IMO), Eve was so compelling to me, and the way Roberts switched up the gender roles in their relationship still felt fresh (actually, that element is still pretty fresh to me today).There’s a scene which particularly rubs me up the wrong way at about the 70% mark in which the heroine, having had an argument with Roarke because he was upset that she called him in for questioning in the murder investigation which she was conducting, and in which he was a suspect, punches him in the head. He responds thus: I absolutely agree that you shouldn’t use violence of any form to enforce your will on another human being, regardless of gender. And as with any series, long-running or otherwise, some books work better than others. Which ones work or not is different for each reader. What I love most about the series is that we get the ongoing relationship between Eve and Roarke, and Eve and the various supporting characters (there are a lot of them after so many books!) and those scenes often save the book for me when the mystery is not one I like. In some books we know who the killer(s) is right away and the book is more about how Eve catches them. Others are more of a whodunit. But even though only a few years have passed in book time there are no cliff-hanger endings. In each book you get a complete story. I’m actually a big fan of homage mysteries so that wouldn’t really trouble me, particularly because while I’m enthusiastic about the genre, I’m not terribly well educated in it.