Rapture in Death
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 2 by shellyann at usps to fellow bx in Kelseyville, California USA on Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Released on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 at usps to fellow bx in Kelseyville, California USA.
mailing to ellymae58
mailing to ellymae58
Thank you for yet another surprise book, shellyann!
Journal Entry 4 by EllyMae58 at -- By Post Or By Hand - i.e. Ring, Trade, RABCK, Meet in San Diego, California USA on Thursday, October 2, 2003
Release planned for Tuesday, October 07, 2003 at ANNIVERSARY RELEASE in San Diego, California USA.
RABCK giveaway in honor of my 1 year BookCrossing anniversary. This one is going to avanta7. Enjoy!
RABCK giveaway in honor of my 1 year BookCrossing anniversary. This one is going to avanta7. Enjoy!
In a time when technology can manipulate moods and emotions, death holds the promise of ultimate ecstasy...
They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common -- and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims. Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual reality games -- where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction... (cover blurb)
Received in the mail today. Another to cross off my wish list. Thank you, and happy BX birthday, ellymae58!
They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common -- and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims. Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual reality games -- where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction... (cover blurb)
Received in the mail today. Another to cross off my wish list. Thank you, and happy BX birthday, ellymae58!
Fourth installment in the series.
Robb has established a predictable pattern in this futuristic cop series. This installment breaks little new ground. The crime and the perpetrator are both connected in some fashion to Eve's personal life. We are introduced to the criminal in an early scene, although we don't necessarily know it at the time. And Eve and Roarke argue a little, have sex a lot, and wrestle with their personal demons in the meantime.
The plot is more imaginative than in the previous three, dealing with advanced video game and virtual reality technology. Installments two and three were standard-issue romantic thriller plotlines: no surprises. This novel is more what I hoped to see when I read the first of the series, although the plotting is fairly heavy-handed -- I spotted the no-goodnik at first introduction. Still, deeper insight into Eve's background made the story hum along. I wonder when Robb will get around to telling us Roarke's back story.
Reasonably well-done for its genre, although I tended to grimace at one excessively graphic sex scene and some of the potty-mouthed dialogue. And I've started playing a game as I read this series: discover the bad guy before the story makes it obvious.
Robb has established a predictable pattern in this futuristic cop series. This installment breaks little new ground. The crime and the perpetrator are both connected in some fashion to Eve's personal life. We are introduced to the criminal in an early scene, although we don't necessarily know it at the time. And Eve and Roarke argue a little, have sex a lot, and wrestle with their personal demons in the meantime.
The plot is more imaginative than in the previous three, dealing with advanced video game and virtual reality technology. Installments two and three were standard-issue romantic thriller plotlines: no surprises. This novel is more what I hoped to see when I read the first of the series, although the plotting is fairly heavy-handed -- I spotted the no-goodnik at first introduction. Still, deeper insight into Eve's background made the story hum along. I wonder when Robb will get around to telling us Roarke's back story.
Reasonably well-done for its genre, although I tended to grimace at one excessively graphic sex scene and some of the potty-mouthed dialogue. And I've started playing a game as I read this series: discover the bad guy before the story makes it obvious.
Obtained from the shelf of BookCrosser avanta7 in anticipation of an upcoming weekend of wild releasing.
Journal Entry 8 by SLObunch at Colton Hall, on Pacific Street in Monterey, California USA on Friday, December 2, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (12/2/2005 UTC) at Colton Hall, on Pacific Street in Monterey, California USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
On the sidewalk with the luminaries.
On the sidewalk with the luminaries.
