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| | Product Details | | Author: | J.D. Robb | | Hardcover: | 368 pages | | Publisher: | Putnam Adult | | Publication Date: | February 23, 2010 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0399156240 | | Product Length: | 9.5 inches | | Product Width: | 6.25 inches | | Product Height: | 1.24 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.24 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.3 inches | | Package Height: | 1.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 136 reviews |
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145 of 152 found the following review helpful:
 A fantastic new book in the "In Death" - series that concentrates on friendship Jan 24, 2010
By S. - "abouthappybooks.com"
When Bart Minnock, co-owner of a popular video game firm, is found brutally murdered Eve Dallas takes the case. And it's not an easy one for Eve.
Bart seemed to be a great, happy guy that nobody had trouble with. But finding a motive is not the only problem for Eve. Another is to find out how Bart was decapitated without anybody else in the room.
Eve must get past her own convictions about what is possible in the real world to close this case and find justice for Bart.
What I love about "Fantasy in Death" is that it concentrates on friendship. So there are lots of interactions between Eve and her colleagues, especially Peabody and Nadine. The scenes between Nadine and Eve are awesome and I like how the dynamics in their friendship are portrayed.
I was relieved that the new case is not so dark and hard to read like the ones in "Kindred in Death".
Another thing I love about "Fantasy in Death" is that this time Eve is the strong one in the relationship with Roarke. Roarke has some trouble to deal with the case because he knew the victim but Eve is there for him just like he is always there for her. It's awesome to see how she handles the fights with him and is understanding even when he hits her below the belt (for once Roarke is not 100% perfect!). But of course there are also some sexy and very sweet scenes between Eve and Roarke and whenever I read about them as a pair I'm just happy.
The mystery part of the story was very interesting and I didn't know who the bad guy was until it was revealed.
So, "Fantasy in Death" is another awesome book by J.D. Robb and I'm already excited to read "Indulgence in Death", coming in November 2010.
50 of 57 found the following review helpful:
 Intriguing locked room mystery Feb 07, 2010
By Jayster
"Jo"
I love a good locked door mystery and J.D. Robb's Fantasy in Death delivers.
Long time friends Bart, Cill, Var and Benny are on the verge of releasing a state-of-art holo-game. Bart tests the game in the isolation and secured holo-room of his locked apartment and is killed. There are no clues. No weapon, no evidence of an intruder, no witnesses, nothing.
This is the crime super-cop, Lt. Eve Dallas, investigates with a little help from husband, Roarke. His input is more as a consultant and assists Feeney off screen, although he's there when Eve needs him. Eve struggles to understand e-tech, as always, but it is because she doesn't understand the environment that she can think of the unusual solution. I had my own suspects, but didn't truly settle on one until late in the book. Canny readers will pick up on the pivotal moment.
Fans of J.D. Robb will be excused for thinking this book is familiar with a particular scenario in the first of the series, Naked in Death, I know it rang a bell with me - but when you consider the two-year time frame, it's not such a leap.
I would have given the book five stars, except for the laziness of the copy-editor. This English version has unfortunate carriage returns in the middle of sentences, words that need spaces in between and comma issues. There are also problems with 'voice'. At one stage, I couldn't tell who was speaking, Roarke or Eve. Roarke doesn't have the speech patterns from previous books and the concept of 'friendship' is a bit belaboured.
Overall - if you can ignore the copy-edit problems - the story is great read and fans will be satisfied.
41 of 47 found the following review helpful:
The beginning of the end... Feb 26, 2010
By Jenn B.
This, my fellow Eve and Rourke fans, is the the beginning of the end. Not in a horrible, "OMG, this series has totally gone downhill" but in the slow, beautiful way stories about couples come to a resolution. As Roberts says in the video on this page, people grow and change - Eve has had made amazing personal and emotional leaps from the first In Death novel and Rourke has been right beside her. "Fantasy" shows what happens when that growth starts to pay off. The entire time I was reading "Fantasy in Death", I felt like I was reuniting with friends I hadn't seen since their wedding and was now watching them interact as a couple that is deeply and passionately in love. Granted, Roberts sets it up way with a consistent narrative thread around relationships but not once did I feel she was pushing Eve and Rourke as a couple in the reader's face. Each time it emerged, it made perfect sense and was delightful to read. This is a series about Eve and Rourke and some books have been relationship-lite and cop-heavy. "Fantasy" is the ideal balance. Because it is book 30, the ending scenes gave my heart a bit of a stutter but the resolution only reinforced the consequences of Eve's growth as a woman and a wife. There is one meta-moment that I read as a shout out to fans (an Eve and Rourke conversation echoes comments that Nora Roberts has made about the end of the series) that made me chuckle and the technology has gone into truly science fiction, reinforcing that this is a series set in 2058. Like any good scifi author, Roberts/Robb has given us enough science to make is plausible and enough fiction to make it cool.
Fans of the series will no doubt read this book because that's what you do when a new one comes out. If you are new to the series and wondering if this is a good starting point, I say yes. Joining Eve and Rourke and Peabody (who I argue is one of the best written sidekicks in fiction) this far in their relationships will only make the journey from the beginning that much more enjoyable.
As an aside, all authors (romance or not) can learn so much about Roberts/Robb's skill with dialog. At a pivotal moment, when in the hands of a lesser author, Eve might scream, shout, beat her fist against her breast - she simply said three words and that sentence did more to communicate the depth of growth, emotion, and change in character than would seem possible.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Pleasing Mar 26, 2010
By Mel Odom
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts) opens up a new murder book when New York Police Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a homicide involving a top video game designer in Fantasy in Death. The year is 2060 and the world is just enough different than ours to be interesting, although the chase for the murderer seems very familiar.
I enjoyed the idea of the entertainment available that late in the 21st century, but after seeing all the entertainment dollars that get spent every month and how much technology seems to jump every three or four years, I think Robb may have seriously underestimated where video gaming and virtual reality may be in the next 50 years.
Robb is a virtuoso at getting a story underway, though. Within just a few pages, she's introduced us to the murder victim, a new way of gaming, and a host of other SF elements that mesh really well in her story.
As usual, Dallas and her ex-criminal husband Roarke end up chasing the same murderer for different reasons, and they end up at cross-purposes now and again. It's a formula, but it's a formula that works and has worked for over 30 novels in this series so far.
Eve Dallas's family and circle of friends has grown exponentially over the books. Each of them show up for cameo bits pretty much as their lives continually get tangled with each other's.
For the most part, I enjoyed Eve's pursuit of the murder investigation. Robb has the procedure down pat, and she's got her characters firmly in place as she marches them forward.
However, the plot in this one seemed to spiral for a while and become repetitious in the middle. And there was no real reason to expand Eve's suspicions past the three surviving partners. The false leads weren't developed quite as expertly as Robb normally does. And the revelation of the killer's identity wasn't astounding in any way.
I did like the fact that Eve and Roarke ended up fighting alone in the virtual reality world, and that Eve "cheated" the perverted system for the win. Fantasy in Death might not be anything new for long-time readers, but it's a solid entry into the long-lived series.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Not The Best Entry But Still Pleasing Mar 10, 2010
By L. Curtis
"Lynette's Two Cents Reviews"
Hmm. First let me begin by stating that I love, love, love Nora Robert's In Death series. I'm not a big devotee of her Nora Roberts novels, but I devour each In Death novel as soon as can. There is no doubt that Ms. Roberts is a fabulous writer and that Ms. Roberts excels at characters, and character development. Fantasy In Death is no exception. In this thirtieth book in the series, Eve and Roarke are just as fresh and interesting as they were in the first book. What I loved about this book are the personal interactions between the main and supporting characters. I laughed out loud whenever Eve and Peabody had a conversation that didn't have to do with the case. I melted into a puddle of goo whenever Eve and Roarke discussed their relationship. I also loved Eve's attempts to shake things up in their relationship by not allowing them to settle in a routine. And the accident in the end of Fantasy In Death . . . I loved it. It was different, tugged at the heart strings, and was amazingly written.
I did have a few problems with Fantasy In Death. The mystery was so-so to me. I didn't find it as gripping and interesting as it normally is. And it annoyed me to see Eve floundering through much of the book. I racked my brain trying to figure out why and I believe my problems stem from Fantasy In Death's first scene. It has a lot of action, but it also tells the reader how the victim died. Since I knew how the victim died, I knew the ending before Eve did and the journey it took for Eve to get where I was already at from page one, didn't grip me as much as it should've.
OVERALL
Loved the characters and the sub-plots but thought the main mystery could've been structured a little differently.
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