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Old 02-23-2014, 02:33 PM   #411
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  • Concealed in Death by JD Robb (B-/3 stars)*
*=This is one of the books where I do kinda wish Calibre did 1/2 stars. I love this series overall. It's easy to say which are the gems and which I find lacking. But I always struggle and go back-and-forth in my mind on the “average” books for this series. So I almost gave it 4 stars, but feel it fits better with the ones I've given 3 stars.
I actually really enjoyed this. I'm afraid to say why, since the book is so new I would imagine almost everyone would consider it spoiler. So I'll put it in spoiler tags and try to be as vague as possible - but there is spoilerage here.

Spoiler:
One of my favorite most recent books is Treachery in Death. It shows so clearly that Eve is maturing into both her marriage and her position in her squad ("I'm the lieutenant" - she's acknowledging she's the boss). This was another book where we got to see Eve's maturity - she's running her squad, giving Peabody more work to do on her own, and yes, the insights into Mavis's past were an unexpected surprise.

And she doesn't have to fight with Roarke every time either (personally, I wouldn't mind if she didn't tup Roarke every book, too - it's getting repetitive!) Every now and again I do an "In Death" audiobook marathon, and I forgot how much Eve and Roarke fought in those early books. I'm glad she doesn't need to fight so much.

Lastly, one of the things I have trouble with most is how gleefully Robb will put you in the heads of the worst killers and indulge in some truly horrible gore. So, I especially liked that all the murders in this book were done "off-screen". There will be those who hate it because they're children - although they're older than others she killed off earlier in the series. There was one aspect of this case that I wondered about though - whenever they found a "missing persons" case that looked like one of the reconstructions, she always went straight to the notification of the family. I remember on the first one I thought, "What? You're not going to confirm it with DNA before telling them?!"
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