This week we talk about the Candy Thief!! Who could it be? Is it Feeney? Roarke? Peabody? Is it the whole squad? An initiation rite? Is Eve eating her own candy and then forgetting? We talk about all of these theories on this weeks show!

This week we talk about the Candy Thief!! Who could it be? Is it Feeney? Roarke? Peabody? Is it the whole squad? An initiation rite? Is Eve eating her own candy and then forgetting? We talk about all of these theories on this weeks show!

Also: Listen to Caitlin’s new podcast, Review THIS!: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/review-this/id1578607622

In our longest episode yet, we review "Portrait in Death"!! A favorite book of just about every fan of this series. Roarke's personal struggle in this is the main story here, and this book is just a rollercoaster for him, for Eve, for the reader! So many really iconic scenes [...]

This week, we talk with “In Death” Series fan Katheryn, who AJ came across on Apple Podcasts. Katheryn has a podcast where she reviews books, (https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/dear-author-signed-me/id1526009974?l=en) and she gave a really good review of Naked in Death and said that she was a big fan of the series, so we [...]

This week, we talk with “In Death” Series fan Katheryn, who AJ came across on Apple Podcasts. Katheryn has a podcast where she reviews books, (https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/dear-author-signed-me/id1526009974?l=en) and she gave a really good review of Naked in Death and said that she was a big fan of the series, so we thought that it would be fun to have her on the show while Tara is away this week.

The main topic of our discussion is Eve’s character progression. If you have listened to our earlier episodes, especially the “We Review the Reviews” episodes, you know how frustrated we get with people who claim that Eve never progresses as a character. For Katheryn, discussing Eve’s character progression is one of her favorite things. She’s extremely knowledgeable about the series and it made for a really great discussion. We hope you enjoy it!

This week, while Tara is away, AJ and Jen give recommendations for Nora Roberts books that you can read if you are an "In Death" fan and haven't read any (or very much) Nora Roberts.

Here we are again, folks, with another "We Review the Reviews!" This time we review the reviews of "Purity in Death!" So many BS reviews for this book including: questioning whether Nora Roberts actually wrote the book, Nora "made social commentary throughout that was either annoying or incredibly bigoted," the [...]

Here we are again, folks, with another “We Review the Reviews!” This time we review the reviews of “Purity in Death!” So many BS reviews for this book!

We start out with another reviewer who didn’t like the book, so therefore they question whether Nora Roberts actually wrote the book.

Then there’s the reviewer who felt that Nora “made social commentary throughout that was either annoying or incredibly bigoted.” We really wish people would give us examples of what they feel is annoying and bigoted.

Next, a review that feels the book was a “techno-babble bore” and that it copied the movie “Star Chamber.” Although, vigilante movies have been around since movies existed, so, “Star Chamber” didn’t invent that genre. Just visit the page on Wikipedia that lists all the vigilante movies that have been made.

There’s a really pretentious a-hole who writes a really long review about how bad they feel Nora’s “mushy, irritating” and writing is. “Purity” in their opinion, is “lame, “boring,” and “tiring” with “…very poor plot line, character growth or mystery.” Plus, TWO SIMILIES IN ONE SENTENCE?? HOW DARE SHE!!??

Here’s some more things we learn about this book in this episode:

there is a graphic sex scene in this book.

Eve’s tragic backstory is leaned on gratuitously in this series. Also there’s this thing about a dog that’s supposed to be funny but is gross.

Roarke is pushy and arrogant

Eve just grumped and snarled her way through the book at everyone

Eve’s never in her own office

Eve is starting to resemble Anita from LKH’s series

Eve is “overly arrogant, abrasive, a bully and uncouth”

Eve isn’t really solving her own cases “legally,” she needs to use Roarke and do it by crossing that line

Obviously, since there are no guns with bullets, the right to bear arms for Americans has been taken away

On the good side, some reviewers really loved this book and the series in general, not to mention Susan Ericksen and we LOVE those reviews.

This is a very long episode because this book is so dense! Trueheart kills a man (but does he?), McNab is shot with a stunner and is now paralyzed on his right side, Feeney is taken hostage, Peabody is hurt, Eve and Roarke being on opposite sides in the whole [...]

This week, AJ, Jen and Tara are on vacation, so we are re-playing an episode that we recorded with Heidi and Emily of the podcast “Romancing the Shelf”!! However, while they (wisely) cut out all the superfluous and boring parts of our recording, we have kept all that in! For [...]