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Title: Ceremony in Death (Nova Audio Books) by J. D. Robb, Susan Ericksen, Nora Roberts ISBN: 1-58788-433-X Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: 28 January, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't miss this one!
Comment: I loved this book! Once again Ms. Robb has written an entertaining, hard to put down, page turner. With each In Death book I am focused on finding the killer, but the plot always has surprising twists. This book did not let me down. It was very enchanting and mysterious. The characters are just mag, as Mavis would say. Roarke and Eve are the best though. He is the ever supporting rock Eve never knew she needed. And they are all so funny! GREAT READ, if you want to escape for a while into the life of the incredibly rich, and dangerously exciting. I suggest reading every one, in order. The characters really become like a part of you! This series is without a doubt my all time favorite. I hope it never ends!
Rating: 5
Summary: ...in Death series continues with Ceremony
Comment: The incredible "...in Death" series written by Nora Roberts, under the name J.D. Robb, continues with Ceremony in Death. Eve Dallas is investigating the death of a fellow officer to determine whether he was corrupt and whether he was murdered.
The investigation gets Eve involved with a satanic cult and a wiccan group. The wiccan element brings more development to Peabody's character and makes Peabody more than just a trainee in this story since Peabody knows a bit about the wiccan practices.
As always, Roarke gets involved in the investigation even when Eve doesn't want him to of course. This book is as good as the other's in this series and they're all great. If you haven't read the series start with the first book, Naked in Death.
Highly recommended!
Rating: 4
Summary: The focus is on the relationship
Comment: This is the second book of the IN DEATH series I've read. GLORY IN DEATH was the first I'd read. Yes, GLORY is #2 in the series and CEREMONY is #5 -- I'm skipping because these are the volumes I was able to lay hands on.
Despite the gaps in my reading, each book reads very well. There's no confusion or disorientation because of the missing episodes.
As I said in my review of GLORY IN DEATH -- this is structured to become a television series using the long story-arc of the developing Relationship as the envelope and presenting a whole new mystery episode in each 1 hour drama.
If the futurology were worked into the mystery and relationship, IN DEATH would be as good as Babylon 5.
Up to CEREMONY IN DEATH, the futurology is almost entirely missing. Though this series appears to be set in the future, the story, the romance, the mystery and the solutions could just as easily happen today. There's no reason internal to the story for it to be set in the future.
For this 5th book in the series, this seems to me (a professional sf/f writer) to be a flaw, whereas for the 2nd book of the series the lack was a good teaser.
In CEREMONY IN DEATH, Robb/Roberts has taken the subject of ceremonial magic (another subject I know write about) and has treated it well and fairly, bringing out the massive and very important difference between Satanism and the Wiccan Religion.
Still, both Satanism and the Wiccan Religion are treated with the same short shrift given to the futurology. After you finish reading CEREMONY IN DEATH you have not learned anything useful about either Satanism or Witchcraft except that they're very different.
But here's the very fascinating thing about these novels -- even though I began reading them for my favorite things (futurology, galactic civilization, a touch of the occult), and it turned out these elements are barely there, I'm still looking forward to reading another one.
I think it's because I keep hoping we'll meet some real aliens -- a non-human detective that Eve Dallas would have a hard time making friends with, or an interstellar business situation Roarke would have to sprain his brain to understand and fight to get Eve to accept. But of course, that's what I write, not what J. D. Robb writes.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
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Title: Immortal in Death by J. D. Robb ISBN: 0425153789 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Conspiracy in Death by J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts ISBN: 0425168131 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Glory in Death by J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts ISBN: 0425150984 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Loyalty in Death by J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts ISBN: 042517140X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Witness in Death by J. D. Robb ISBN: 0425173631 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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