Podcast in Death

For this week's episode, we are reviewing "Salvation in Death," and the three of us all have very different reactions to this book!

First, AJ has a little rant, because she doesn't understand why Eve finds Father López so compelling. She also doesn't understand Eve's easy acceptance of religion/Catholicism. And, truth be told, AJ found this book really kind of boring.

Jen disagrees, thinking that Eve would of course be accepting of religion/Catholicism, because, as Jen put it: "She lives in the world." Jen can also understand why Eve might find Father López compelling.

Tara feels like in this book, Eve is not really acting like herself. One reason being that Eve never seriously considers López an actual suspect, even though there are many things that make López a great suspect!

The theme of this book (In our opinion) is the Seven Deadly Sins which (we find out after Tara looks it up on Google) are: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. Our main bad guy, Lino embodied pretty much all of these, as did our second victim Jimmy Jay Jenkins. There are many times where Lust and Greed and Envy and Pride are mentioned throughout the books.

We all find the case a bit confusing and convoluted, (and okay, maybe a little boring) but there are many positives about this book. The Eve and Roarke moments in this book are really great, (even the really awkward car sex scene), we get to se Ariel Greenfield again, and, as she promised in "Creation in Death," she makes Eve an amazing cake which is a depiction of the city of New York.

There's also that really great scene where Eve has to break up a fight at a store where two women are fighting over a "Laroche triple-roll bag in Peony." Later, she tells Mira about it, and Mira right away calls the store to ask them to put that bag aside for her so she can purchase it herself. This scene seems random until you take into consideration that it goes perfectly with our "Seven Deadly Sins" theme as it displays: Lust, Greed, Envy, Wrath..maybe Pride too?

Roarke is feeling some feelings in this book, and thinking about all the friends he lost. To make him feel better, Eve has Summerset give Sinead a call and ask her to call Roarke so he can ground himself again. It's just really nice to see Eve taking care of Roarke, even though when we review the reviews of this book, we're sure we will see some "Eve's a horrible person" reviews. Those of us who really understand and love Eve can see her growing as a character in this book, and we appreciate it.

Also, there's tacos, and we appreciate that, too!

Hey, Everyone! Because of the holidays being so crazy, we pulled out this episode that we recorded a while back and were keeping in reserve for just this kind of a moment. Several weeks ago, we played the episode that we originally did for our “Briefing Room” where we figured [...]

Hey, Everyone!

Because of the holidays being so crazy, we pulled out this episode that we recorded a while back and were keeping in reserve for just this kind of a moment.

Several weeks ago, we played the episode that we originally did for our "Briefing Room" where we figured out Eve's Enneagram type. This time, we take the same quiz for Roarke to found out his Enneagram type.

What we found the most interesting, though, is when we found a description of what a relationship should look like for two people with Enneagram types matching Eve and Roarke's, and it's FASCINATING!!

Hope you enjoy this episode!!

This week we’re talking about our favorite party moments! Tara’s is the time at Mavis’ party in “Rapture in Death” where Roarke assaults Jess Barrow because Jess Barrow is a dick. AJ’s favorite party moment is when Eve and Roarke go to Nadine’s housewarming in “Connections in Death” where Nadine [...]

This week we're talking about our favorite party moments!

Tara's is the time at Mavis' party in "Rapture in Death" where Roarke assaults Jess Barrow because Jess Barrow is a dick.

AJ's favorite party moment is when Eve and Roarke go to Nadine's housewarming in "Connections in Death" where Nadine shows Eve her Oscar, and both Eve and Jake wonder why the Oscar doesn't have "his works."

We love the times where Eve has to deal with party planning, and often passes that off on someone else.

There's a great scene in "Obsession in Death" where "Lottie" is holding the bullpen hostage, and in the middle of it, Roarke calls Eve, and after Lottie tells Eve not to signal Roarke in any way, but Eve does it anyway by having a normal husband/wife conversation, when Eve and Roarke NEVER have a normal husband/wife confersation! But, Roarke gets the message loud and clear and races down to Cop Central to help take Lottie down.

Most everyone's favorite moments are in "Festive in Death," so we talk about that book a lot.

This is a very short episode (for us) but hopefully, entertaining as we go into 2023! Have a Happy New Year, Everyone!

Happy Holidays, Everyone! This episode is dropping on Christmas Eve 2022, and while it’s not really Christmas themed, we hope you like it as much as any of the presents you might be receiving this year. For this episode, we talk to listener Kate Beckett (No, not THAT Kate Beckett) [...]

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

This episode is dropping on Christmas Eve 2022, and while it's not really Christmas themed, we hope you like it as much as any of the presents you might be receiving this year.

For this episode, we talk to listener Kate Beckett (No, not THAT Kate Beckett) about "Love Languages." She gives us some insight to what the five "Love Languages" are, and then we discuss which of those five "Love Languages" fits some of the main characters in the "In Death" book series.

Kate turned out to be a really amazing guest! We loved talking with her!

PLUS: this turned out to be a really interesting episode, and we really think you will love it!

Thanks for listening, Everyone!

We’re back with more “We Review the Reviews!” This time, we are reviewing the reviews of “Strangers in Death.” There were a couple of things that people really hated about this book: People feel like Nora “plagiarized” Hitchcock with this book. People feel like “Eve Dallas is a total heartless [...]

We're back with more "We Review the Reviews!" This time, we are reviewing the reviews of "Strangers in Death."

There were a couple of things that people really hated about this book:

People feel like Nora "plagiarized" Hitchcock with this book.

People feel like "Eve Dallas is a total heartless bitch" and also "self-righteous, arrogant and insufferable" in this book.

As far as point one is concerned, we do not feel at all like Nora "plagiarized" Hitchcock. She did pay homage to his "Strangers on a Train," but there are vast differences. As to part two...well, maybe Eve wasn't great in this book, but we didn't feel like she was a total heartless bitch. She goes hard at Suzanne Custer, but Suzanne killed an innocent man, regardless of how abused she was.

There is more complaining about Nora choosing to set this book in the future and how her future isn't the way reviewers want it to be. More complaining about Graphic Detail, and Bad Language. A dude complaining about how "The author also seems to assume that female readers will want to read petty side stories and will enjoy hearing about the main character's gorgeous husband and huge mansion and their fabulous life together." (Yep, we do. That's why this series is for US and not for YOU.) Of course, there's always at least one "This was my first Nora Roberts, and it will be my last." 

There's a really weird take about how "Eve's take on relationships is always right. Good people (aka Charles) come around to agree with her. Bad people (like the murderer) are bad people, murder and go to jail." Um. Well. So, Eve's right?

And along with the bad reviews we have some really good reviews including "The One Where Charles Retires," and "...this isn't the best of the series but it's still a solid, very enjoyable mystery." Plus, what would a "Review the Reviews" be without at least one good Susan Ericksen review by someone who feels that "Susan Erickson brings the characters to life." We agree!

Overall, a fun installment of "We Review the Reviews."

Hi, Everyone! In this week’s 2+ hour episode, Jen and AJ talk about Eve’s nightmares. As you all know, this whole series literally starts with Eve coming out of a nightmare, so it stands to reason that nightmares are a central plot point for this series. The dreams start out [...]