Witness in Death by J. D. Robb Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Witness in Death
Book Review: Bravo
Summary: 5 Stars
This series is additive! This is the third time I've read Witness and I still love it. The characters continue to evolve and grow and entertain.
The characters are outstanding. Complex, conflicted, enjoyable. The main players are easy to fall for.
If you haven't read the 'in Death' series, you're denying yourself hours of entertainment and pleasure. Take the advice I was given, though, and read them in order so you meet the main cast members as they come into play and develop into first-rate characters.
Thank you Ms. Robb!
Shelley Dawn, author of Sweet, Sweet Jessie and Dark Nights
Book Review: But...
Summary: 3 Stars
WITNESS IN DEATH is great fun. The interaction between the characters makes this book worthwhile. It's also great how Robb keeps delving deeper into both Eve and Roarke. Eve worked through some more demons this time around, and there was a tantalizing bit that we're not through exploring Roarke's.As another reader also noted, there were a few editing mistakes. I caught the eye color change as well. It's also annoying that Eve is continually addressed as "sir" by her subordinates. Maybe this is a change in police protocol that Robb has incorporated into her futuristic world, but wouldn't it have been a good idea to let the reader *know* it was a futuristic change, rather than a simple error?
If this had been the extent of my problems with WITNESS IN DEATH, I'd have given this novel five stars without a qualm. It was exciting and fast-paced, and although I guessed whodunit rather early on, I didn't guess *how* whodunit did it, or why.
My major problem with this book is the idea that Robb presents that murder is somehow justified. Even if the first victim was a dirty, rotten scumbag, and the second victim a greedy blackmailer, murder is never justifiable and I resent Robb's attempt to make it so. And then for Eve to suggest to the murderer how that person should go about making sure that a light sentence was received! No matter the reasoning, it goes against everything that Eve has stood for throughout the IN DEATH series.
WITNESS IN DEATH is a fine, exciting novel, BUT it only receives three stars. Had any other author written this novel, Eve Dallas's character would likely have been totally destroyed, and I'd have had to rate this with only one star. Thanks to J. D. Robb's talent, I have high hopes that this was but a momentary lapse in an otherwise great heroine.
Book Review: Call-in-Sick-to-Work - You'll Not Want to Put This One Down
Summary: 5 Stars
This series is set in the near future and features Eve Dallas, NYPD detective. When an actor in a new proudction at the New Globe Theater in New York is murdered, Eve must investigate. She has a theater-full of witnesses including herself and her husband. As she slowly and painstakenly shifts through the clues, she closes in on the murderer. This is an excellent procedural with strongly written characters that from the first outing capture your attention. In the skilled hands of Robb, the pseudonym of a well-known writer, even the minor characters come alive. This series deserves a wide audience because each entry is one of those call-in-sick-to-work books that you just can't put down. The series should be read in order in order to get all the background on Eve and the other characters as well as to watch the author develop the characters and place over the course of several books.Book Review: Can it get better than this?
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Nora Roberts and I love her as J.D. Robb. This series of books is great. Witness might be my favorite, but that could just be because it is the newest. I love them all. This one is a nice change of pace. The action is a little slower paced, but the characters move the story along at just the right pace. Eve and Roarkes relationship just keeps getting better. There seemed to be more humor in this one. I laughed out loud at least 4 or 5 times. IF YOU HAVE NEVER READ J.D. ROBB BEFORE PICK UP ALL THE BOOKS AND READ THEM IN ORDER. IF YOU HAVE READ THE REST, DON'T MISS THIS ONE.
Book Review: Dallas Does it Again!
Summary: 5 Stars
After stumbling on this series by accident while picking out books for spring break, I have become hopelessly hooked! Dallas and Rourke are two of the smartest, sexiest protagonists available to mystery/romance/sci fi readers! The author has revealed Dallas's secrets, her desires, and her weaknesses carefully and slowly as the series has developed. Miss Roberts has also added new characters and developed them as carefully and as enticeingly as well. This book deals with a murder in plain sight...in Dallas's plain sight...onstage during the denouement of a play. The cast is the obvious suspect and each plays out his/her reasons, passions, and resolutions in the pages of the book. I don't want to give away the ending...but I do encourage you to read some or all of the prior books in this series. The character development is certainly worth it! You will love gritty, slow to love Dallas; handsome, richer than anyone Rourke; and all the rest of the characters that cross their paths and/or stay to become the "family" that Dallas never had. I loved it...and I have already preordered JUDGEMENT IN DEATH, the next in the series. I think you will, too! Happy reading!