How is it that three women die under very similar circumstances? All were apparently very happy when they died, but all three deaths were ruled suicides. Why the conflict? Also, the three women were all professional, one a brilliant engineer, then a successful lawyer and a controversial politician. They had nothing in common but the cause of their deaths.

Seemingly, only lieutenant Eve Dallas finds these deaths suspicious. She further investigates and she finds a common denominator. As always the danger is in this story is in stiff competition to the sizzling connection between Eve and Roarke.

This futuristic story, Rapture in Death, is a bit more advanced in that regard than the prior three books in this series. This is especially so because Eve and Roarke happen upon a deadly virtual reality game. They could lose everything. Will Eve be able to get to the bottom of things before that very game becomes deadly to her?

The In Death series is a long-running one, with 49 books offered thus far. As each title gives a brief history of the pasts of Eve and Roarke, and how they found one another. However, it is a very exciting series and might just definitely be enjoyed more by reading in succession.

I plan on reading and reviewing each title on this blog. Feel free to search any of my previous reviews.

How is it that three women die under very similar circumstances? All were apparently very happy when they died, but all three deaths were ruled suicides. Why the conflict? Also, the three women were all professional, one a brilliant engineer, then a successful lawyer and a controversial politician. They had nothing in common but the cause of their deaths.

Seemingly, only lieutenant Eve Dallas finds these deaths suspicious. She further investigates and she finds a common denominator. As always the danger is in this story is in stiff competition to the sizzling connection between Eve and Roarke.

This futuristic story, Rapture in Death, is a bit more advanced in that regard than the prior three books in this series. This is especially so because Eve and Roarke happen upon a deadly virtual reality game. They could lose everything. Will Eve be able to get to the bottom of things before that very game becomes deadly to her?

The In Death series is a long-running one, with 49 books offered thus far. As each title gives a brief history of the pasts of Eve and Roarke, and how they found one another. However, it is a very exciting series and might just definitely be enjoyed more by reading in succession.

I plan on reading and reviewing each title on this blog. Feel free to search any of my previous reviews.

 

Is this the beginning of the end for the Renegades? Will Zahara ever find her happy ending? Can love really conquer all? Rapture is the magic of what love can do. It's power can turn strangers into one big happy family. It shines a light on what it means to hope and pushes us to facing our fears. After all without risk there is no reward. With Chase and Zahara, Skye Jordan shows how a leap of faith can help mend a broken heart. Love is a master of disguise. It's not always kind. It's messy, heartbreaking, irresistible, irrational and inspiring. There is no limit to the adjectives that describe love, but if you get it right it's worth it in the end. Jordan got it right. Rapture is so worth it.

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So I received my Winter Chills Box Swap from Bookish Blerd on Thursday. There were two packages, a big box and a small envelope. The big box contained two bags of Herr's potato chips - I can not tell you how long it has been since I had some of Herr's potato chips (probably 10 years or more) since the military stores don't carry the brand and its a regional thing (PA). Yeah, the bag of Crisp N' Tasty chips is already done, because I eat my feelings.

 

Next up out of the box were three TastyKakes, all with Justice League logos; in particular my favorites, Krumpets, had the very tasty Henry Cavill as Superman which took the box up a notch. TKs are another PA/regional thing that again the military does not carry, so it's been a while. There were also two pairs of socks, a Yankee Candle, a card (beautiful handwriting btw), two bars of peanut chew, a tea diffuser in the shape of a book (with a booklet about literary teas), and books (attached above). I have never read anything by JR Ward before, but hell yes to reading about fallen angels in a paranormal romance.

 

What a wonderful treat to receive!

During the last hours of Eve and Roarke's honeymoon, a young engineer decides to commit suicide in the almost finished resort the couple is visiting. The strange thing is, the young man hung himself, but died with a smile on his face.

Back in New York, everything goes back to normal with Eve performing her duties as a cop, including attending court and battling with a particularly slimy defense attorney. A defense attorney that slashes his own wrist the next night and dies with a smile on his face.

One might be a fluke, two a coincidence, three (thanks to a basejumping without a parachute senator) is a pattern. A pattern that points toward homicide no matter the fact it all looks like suicide.



This was, IMO, the weakest of the first four books in the series. It started rather slow, dragging its feet, picking up pace only somewhere in the middle of ti all, only to slow once more and rush to the finish in those last few pages.

One of the problems for me was the lack of romance between Eve and Roarke. What there was of it seemed lackluster compared to the previous books. Sure, they’re a married couple now, but that doesn’t mean romance is dead, now, does it?

The second problem was the predictability of the entire book. Some reviewers were a bit shocked by the “closet scene” between our intrepid couple, and I don’t know why. Everything pointed to it happening (maybe not in a closet, but happening nonetheless). But it was done well, if you ask me, providing just enough tension to keep the story flowing, while also providing quite a red herring, though I wasn’t deterred.

The third problem was that I knew who the real killer was from the first scene (nothing beats a female intuition, I guess), and that also added to the whole predictability of the plot.

It wasn't as fast-paced as I've come to expect, the interactions between some of the characters were rather lukewarm (even the friendship between Mavis and Eve), the main villain was predictable, and the killer's motive rather "overdone" in the God complex department. I need a solid reason to believe a murderous plot, and this story didn't deliver on that.

Quite a disappointment, really.