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Originally Posted by library addict
I have one friend who read through about book fifteen or so and then she told me she just didn't like Eve. I can't imagine continuing reading the books where you don't like THE main character. This series is very much about Eve. Yes, her romance and marriage to Roarke plays an integral part, but it's ultimately HER story.
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I have been frustrated with Eve at certain points in the series, and I had to remind myself that the timeframe in the series is actually pretty short. She's been writing these for about 25 years now, right?, but only 3 years have passed in the book's time.
Year after year, you read about this suspicious, impatient, tormented, arrogant woman, and she has this great husband and develops good friends - and she can be *so* rude to them. (How many times has she called one of them up, refused to say even "hi, how you doing?", demanded they drop everything to assist her NOW, then hang up while they're asking questions?)
When that starts to bug me, I just have to remind myself - it's really only been 3 years (or whatever the timeframe was when I was reading the book(s) that particularly set me off). And, she has reasons for not trusting/making friends easily.
If I think TOO hard about the short timeframe, I have to say that New York in the late 2050s-early 2060s will be a haven (if only short term) for serial killers! Eve rarely gets cases that could be considered simple in any way. But that's true of any long-running series.
One of my absolutely favorite books in this series is Treachery in Death, because it let us see some real growth in Eve's personality. I've been liking where Eve is in her personal journey a lot more since that book - and it's easier to accept the meltdowns (such as, "humming woman in Eve's office") when they come.