Naked in Death

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I am already up to book 19 but decided to head back to book 1 and do a quick recap of how they met and their initial reactions to each other. Consequently, I found Roarke so difficult and so overpowering, I didn’t really get much of a sense of Eve as a character. while not as great as a paperback in quality, Mass market paperback was still good enough and cheaper in this case so I went for it. I like how he's very supportive and caring for her, and he can get tough with her emotionally when it's necessary. I have read it so many times in just the past year and I am still not over this book or this series.

I've been nervous about starting this mega series of 39 books but I'm glad I finally bit the bullet. But we’re supposed to be ok with all of his actions because he’s rich and sexy and will do anything for Eve. Nothing tricky, nothing fancy, just certain policies, technologies, attitudes that, left to move forward without careful thought now, will come to fruition – for good or ill – sixty years from yesterday. Eve Dallas and the characters that surround her are familiar; as are the settings, even if we've switched decades a little.Now I am totally depressed cos I realise that if I have to read the whole IN DEATH series it is going to cost me a feckin' fortune. Eve then comes home to find Senator DeBlass's assistant, Rockman, in her apartment planning to make her the fourth victim. Here we are, wet, naked, both of us half dead from a very memorable night, and still you watch me with very cool, very suspicious eyes.

While I didn't want an "info dump", I do wish the author hadn’t just dropped names like that, as it took me out of the story, at times. When a senator's daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she'd been leading is revealed. High on her list of suspects was a man she hadn’t come across before – Roarke, a handsome Irish billionaire – and she was drawn to him; him to her. Through Roarke’s steadiness and compassion, Eve begins to trust enough to let the long-denied past surface.I’m not usually a fan of the Mystery/Thriller genre, but my daughter has been raving about these books for years. She has very little memory of her early childhood before she was found abused and abandoned in a Dallas alleyway. If any of these images are yours and you would like me to remove them, please let me know, and I will do so as soon as possible. I am a big fan of books by Nora Roberts and I have known for a while she had this crime series out under J. I'm not sure if I need to recommend this since it seems that just about everyone else has already read it, but if you like romantic suspense and/or mystery thrillers and haven't yet read Naked in Death, then I highly suggest it.

During the investigation she meets the gorgeous billionaire and mysterious Roarke, too bad his also a suspect or is he? I like that he pushed and she pulled it wasn’t anything frustrating or OTT I say it was just right for their personalities.I could put together a very strong argument that Roarke is the main inspiration for Christian Grey (I considered writing a nontraditional review on that vein, but didn't have the patience to follow through). I like a good stabby-murder book, and I like future stuff - like my friends who live in Australia, so it was a win. And maybe that's the difference between a book written a couple of years ago and a book written a couple decades ago. I like that he didn't let Eve's issues stand in the way of their relationship, but he wasn't out to change her or remake her into a more manageable woman for his life. I was worried it wouldn’t live up to my expectations and would be too different from the Nora books I love.

Some of the side characters also appear in this first book and we begin to discover the awful past which is Eve's driving force. Washing your hair," he murmured and proceeded to stroke and massage the shampoo into her short, sopping cap of hair.When he becomes a suspect in the murder case she is working on we find Eve in a bit of a predicament. I guess I *might* have been able to get behind the instalove and other corny quotes if the love interest's MO hadn't been following some kind of Abuser 101 Guide : indeed Roarke repeatedly uses both physical force and psychological harassment to manipulate the heroine into thinking that what they share is a love story.