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Fantasy in Death (In Death, #30)
by J.D. Robb
by J.D. Robb
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
This is the latest installment in the length In Death futuristic mystery series by Robb and I have to say I liked this one better than the last two. Granted most of the Eve Dallas stories are good and easy reads, the last two had so many subplots revolving around her friends’ babies and weddings (mostly to illustrate Eve doesn’t know how to act like a woman. I’m so tried of that trope. Why can’t a woman be tough without acting like she has no idea what it is women do? That the only tough women have to be men who just happen to have two X chromosomes? I’m seeing that far too often any more)
Okay rant over and back to the story at hand. This story was cleaner, no subplots sucking away from the main action. In fact the only subplot is Nadine (TV reporter)’s new true crime book based on a Dallas/Peabody case and it only takes up a few scenes. The rest of the book is dedicated to the main action. Maybe I liked this one so much because it had to do with role-playing games and I’ve been a gamer for years.
The main plot is Bart Minnock built up a small but highly successful gaming company with two childhood friends plus a friend he met in college, Benny, Cill and Var respectively. Bart is trying out his new holo game only to be found in a locked room, beheaded the next day. Naturally Roarke, Eve’s ultra rich husband is also into game making and knew Bart and liked him, so that brings him into the story (though that’s one of the things that is beginning to annoy me with the series. We bring Roarke into everything any more. He either owns the building, employs the person involved etc etc anything to throw him into the mystery)
Granted, I figured out who, how and why halfway into this but that’s all right. I don’t mind that (I mind getting to the end and having the villain revealed and realizing you couldn’t have solved it with the clues given). This was just a fun story especially with Peabody and McNab going to a gaming convention in cosplay since yeah, I can relate to that. The other thing that I think helped this a little is Robb downplayed Eve’s horrible upbringing. In any mystery series, you expect them to retread important points for the new reader but the last few Robb had been hitting the child molestation Dallas suffered with a sledgehammer even when it wasn’t pertinent to the case. This time it was handled much more lightly. This book I gobbled up and enjoyed.
This is the latest installment in the length In Death futuristic mystery series by Robb and I have to say I liked this one better than the last two. Granted most of the Eve Dallas stories are good and easy reads, the last two had so many subplots revolving around her friends’ babies and weddings (mostly to illustrate Eve doesn’t know how to act like a woman. I’m so tried of that trope. Why can’t a woman be tough without acting like she has no idea what it is women do? That the only tough women have to be men who just happen to have two X chromosomes? I’m seeing that far too often any more)
Okay rant over and back to the story at hand. This story was cleaner, no subplots sucking away from the main action. In fact the only subplot is Nadine (TV reporter)’s new true crime book based on a Dallas/Peabody case and it only takes up a few scenes. The rest of the book is dedicated to the main action. Maybe I liked this one so much because it had to do with role-playing games and I’ve been a gamer for years.
The main plot is Bart Minnock built up a small but highly successful gaming company with two childhood friends plus a friend he met in college, Benny, Cill and Var respectively. Bart is trying out his new holo game only to be found in a locked room, beheaded the next day. Naturally Roarke, Eve’s ultra rich husband is also into game making and knew Bart and liked him, so that brings him into the story (though that’s one of the things that is beginning to annoy me with the series. We bring Roarke into everything any more. He either owns the building, employs the person involved etc etc anything to throw him into the mystery)
Granted, I figured out who, how and why halfway into this but that’s all right. I don’t mind that (I mind getting to the end and having the villain revealed and realizing you couldn’t have solved it with the clues given). This was just a fun story especially with Peabody and McNab going to a gaming convention in cosplay since yeah, I can relate to that. The other thing that I think helped this a little is Robb downplayed Eve’s horrible upbringing. In any mystery series, you expect them to retread important points for the new reader but the last few Robb had been hitting the child molestation Dallas suffered with a sledgehammer even when it wasn’t pertinent to the case. This time it was handled much more lightly. This book I gobbled up and enjoyed.
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I'm not a wife or mother. Furthest thing from that really. In my various careers, I'm usually the only woman around but that doesn't mean I haven't the faintest idea as to what it means to be female and that's how Eve is being written lately.
Cornerofmadness wrote: "I'm not a wife or mother. Furthest thing from that really. In my various careers, I'm usually the only woman around but that doesn't mean I haven't the faintest idea as to what it means to be femal..."Granted. I apologize.
Huh? Are you perhaps a wife and mother? There are other roles.!