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Originally Posted by Blossom
Okay I will have to take your word for it then. I am reading it and Jill Shalvis claims the most amazing heros are Roarke and Ranger and we know how crazy I am about Ranger.  So I must get to learn about Roarke and I do like Eve so far. How many of the books have romance in them? I think I read that it starts off with romance but then fades out and becomes just a mystery later. |
Yes and no
Technically book 1 is the only romance as it ends in a HEA. But the romance is throughout the entire series. Some books focus on it much more than others, but the series is a mix of the exploration of Eve & Roarke's marriage (don't think that's really a spoiler
) and Eve's job as a homicide cop. There is a case (or cases) in every book so in many ways that is the emphasis, but every book also has some great character moments. Sometimes the personal stuff is more intertwined with the case and sometimes not. Hard to say more without getting into spoiler territory.
The books in the series were often filed in the mystery section in book stores (I remember that's where Waldenbooks kept them) and in many libraries they are on the shelves with the mysteries.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
The billionaire hero is one of the reason I want to read it because it was a first back then. I started of just listening to the audible of it but when the narrator got to Roarke's voice I just couldn't go on and switch to ebook. I own the first 6 books in ebook and the first two in Audible.
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I think Susan Erickson (sp?) is much more talented than the first person they had narrating the series. But her Roarke sounds like the Lucky Charms leprachaun to me. And some of her other voices don't sound "right" to me. I realize as a performer she is just trying to give each of them a unique sound so that the listener can tell who is speaking, but I had to stop listening after a while because it got to the point where I was annoyed with characters I like because of the way they sounded. Totally my issue, but I just disagree with some of her interpretations.