Podcast in Death

We're talking about J.D. Robb's "Rapture in Death"! Eve and Roarke are married and really sweet together! Peabody is now Eve's permanent aide and Jess Barrow is a DICK! We continue to be amazed every episode at how great the writing is with these books. Thank you, Nora Roberts!

We’re talking about “Rapture in Death”! This is one of the best books of the series, but we say that every podcast, so…

For this week’s discussion, we welcome back Tara Corkery of the Basic Snitches podcast!!

This book is all about mind control. People are committing suicide due to subliminal messages put into VR goggles. The obvious choice for the culprit here is Jess Barrow, who is Mavis’ new producer, and who is also a huge dick. Eve tries hard to pin it on him, but can’t quite do it.

Eve does a couple of stupid things, like climbing out on a ledge to try to save Cerise Devane who wants to jump off her building, and trying on the VR goggles, only to find they are playing a sex fantasy program. Did she just cheat on Roarke? She decides to confess, but he seems fine with it. She just can’t try it with actual humans, and she’s fine with that.

The sex scenes in this book are doing real work here to show Eve and Roarke as they are normally and Eve and Roarke when they were victimized and mind controlled. Even though the first “mind control sex” they have is really hot and it’s overall a great scene, we’re not at all happy why and how it happened.

Second time “mind control sex” happens, we see “Scary Roarke” and who could blame him. It’s also interesting that the “sex in the closet” scene is the first time Roarke uses Gaelic around Eve. He keeps saying “Liomsa,” which means “mine.”

Click Here to hear how to pronounce “Liomsa” in Irish.

Later, Roarke teaches Eve to say “a ghra” which means “My Love,” and from that point forward, we hear this phrase a lot from Roarke.

Click Here to hear how to pronounce “a ghra”

Throughout the podcast, AJ mispronounces names, as usual.

“Reena” is actually “Reanna.”

“Matthew” is actually “William”

And Tara is pronounced “Terra” not “TA-ra”. Sorry, Tara.

We’re talking about “Rapture in Death”! This is one of the best books of the series, but we say that every podcast, so…

For this week’s discussion, we welcome back Tara Corkery of the Basic Snitches podcast!!

This book is all about mind control. People are committing suicide due to subliminal messages put into VR goggles. The obvious choice for the culprit here is Jess Barrow, who is Mavis’ new producer, and who is also a huge dick. Eve tries hard to pin it on him, but can’t quite do it.

Eve does a couple of stupid things, like climbing out on a ledge to try to save Cerise Devane who wants to jump off her building, and trying on the VR goggles, only to find they are playing a sex fantasy program. Did she just cheat on Roarke? She decides to confess, but he seems fine with it. She just can’t try it with actual humans, and she’s fine with that.

The sex scenes in this book are doing real work here to show Eve and Roarke as they are normally and Eve and Roarke when they were victimized and mind controlled. Even though the first “mind control sex” they have is really hot and it’s overall a great scene, we’re not at all happy why and how it happened.

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This week our special guest is Tara Corkery of the Basic Snitches Podcast! Tara is another one of our friends from the "In Death Dot Net Days" and just an all around smart, funny and insightful person! In this episode, we discuss Eve and Peabody's Relationship.

AJ and Jen talk about the technology in J.D. Robb's "In Death" series: what Nora Roberts got right, what Nora got wrong, and what we're not sure about yet.

 

What the series got right:

 

Voice Commands - Alexa/Siri

 

AutoChef - Tovala Oven

 

Drying Tubes - Tornado Body Dryer

 

PPC (Personal Palm Computer) - Though, Palm Computing had come out with their first generation of Palm Pilots in 1996, So not much of a stretch.

 

Droids in menial positions. (again, not much of a stretch)

 

Seal-It - Several brands of “invisible glove” solutions are on the market now like Ghost Glove

 

VR goggles (already been around for several years before the series started)

 

Holo-Rooms: Euclideon Holographics - Jen wonders if a tactile Holoroom, where you can actually feel and interact with things would work. AJ talks about news stories she's seen where that technology is actually in development. See: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/78xa5x/how-haptics-make-holograms-you-can-touch

 

Hologram meetings - DVE Holograms

 

What the series got wrong:

 

No text messaging in first several books

 

Palm Prints: Should be facial recognition?

 

Still having big, clunky computers

 

Memo Cubes

 

Compuguard? Or is that under “we don’t know about that yet”?

 

What we’re not sure about yet:

 

Stunners - We do have some companies making “wireless” tasers now, but it will still shoot a dart into a victim. No “laser” style tasers yet, though China has in development a weapon (ZKZM-500) that can shoot a laser beam that burns things.

 

Flying Cars

 

Credit Tokens

 

Privacy Screens

 

Holorooms

 

Airboards

 

Recreational Space Travel - Virgin Galactic, SpaceX

 

Something like the Olympus Resort in space - Aurora Station

We're talking about "Immortal in Death"! Eve and Roarke are getting married, Mavis is the main suspect of a murder investigation, Leonardo is a Cinnamon Roll, Summerset is still a Dick, and Roarke is a Pizza!!

Judy was one of our good friends from the “In Death Dot Net” days. She has been reading the series since day one when she found “Naked in Death” (with an original “Blue Lady” cover) at a Barnes and Noble in New Jersey. We (yet again) discuss the “In Death” [...]

In this episode, we talk about J.D. Robb's "Glory in Death!" The book opens with Eve at a crime scene where Cicely Towers, a prominent prosecuting attorney has been murdered. It's a sticky case because besides the fact that Eve and most everyone in the NYPSD knows Towers, and also because she's a personal friend of Commander Whitney and a business associate of Roarke's.

 

At the end of her long investigating day, Eve opts for a bath at Roarke's, and really...he's the man who has everything, even bathroom tiles that open up to reveal hidden features like a wine bar and a sound system! It's a bit over the top, but we love it!

 

Next day, Roarke needs to go on a business trip to Australia and gets a little miffed that Eve doesn't want to stay at his mansion while he is away.

 

One of our favorite characters, Crack from the Down and Dirty Club makes his first appearance! There is a missing umbrella at the Towers crime scene, and we contemplate who in the world matches their umbrella to their outfit!

 

After partying with Mavis at a club called Armageddon, Eve goes back to her apartment to sleep, only to be awakened by Roarke in the best way possible. Next morning, Roarke is up early at Eve's apartment, and is still miffed that Eve did not stay at his Mansion. Then, he gifts her with The Giant's Tear, a gigantic diamond, and Eve refuses to take it. This is the last straw for Roarke, and he tells her he "wants all or nothing" and walks out on her.

 

We talk a little about The Button. Is it brought up too much? Not enough?

 

The next murder happens and it's Yvonne Metcalf, a former lover of Roarke's. Eve gets heated and jealous and storms over to Roarke's mansion and one of the best scenes of the series happens when Eve and Roarke get back together.

 

We talk about Roarke giving Eve her own office in his house where he took everything of value from Eve's apartment and moves it to her new office. Rebecca thinks that would be aggravating, but it's a very Roarke move, and Eve appreciates it.

 

Later on, Roarke takes Eve to Mexico and though the fact that they have sex is not a surprise, what IS a surprise to us and Roarke is that his security cameras were on the whole time and caught the whole thing. Roarke's embarassed, and Eve can't help but tease him about it by threatening to play the tape.

 

Back in New York, we meet the very efficient Peabody for the first time! Then Peabody becomes essential in solving the case!

 

We decide Summerset is a dick at Roarke's dinner party when Eve gets a call and races off, but Summerset didn't inform Roarke. Still, we think it's super cute that Summerset develops a sort of crush on Mavis.

 

We briefly discuss the inconsistencies in the series, though, we feel like that's an editing issue, and not an issue with Nora Roberts' writing, because, let's face it, Nora Roberts is the bomb.

 

Once Roarke finds out that Eve went after the killer, he goes after her, punches out the killer. As Eve and Roarke are walking away from the scene, Roarke decides it's the perfect time to ask Eve to marry him.

 

We take listener comments, Jen answers a question about Eve's "Super Car," and we throw out another trivia question. Next week: Special guest Judy Kentrus!

AJ, Jen and Rebecca discuss book #2: Glory in Death...one of our favorites. In this book, there is trouble in Eve and Roarke's paradise. We see Peabody for the first time! We also talk a bit about The Button, the Giant's Tear, Eve and Roarke's trip to Mexico, Summerset's crush [...]

What the series got right: Voice Commands – Alexa/Siri AutoChef – Tovala Oven Drying Tubes – Tornado Body Dryer PPC (Personal Palm Computer) – Though, Palm Computing had come out with their first generation of Palm Pilots in 1996, So not much of a stretch. Droids in menial positions. (again, [...]

What the series got right: Voice Commands – Alexa/Siri AutoChef – Tovala Oven Drying Tubes – Tornado Body Dryer PPC (Personal Palm Computer) – Though, Palm Computing had come out with their first generation of Palm Pilots in 1996, So not much of a stretch. Droids in menial positions. (again, [...]