Naked in Death

The Sci-Fi world is not a major role in the story. This book is more of a Sci-fi backdrop, murder mystery with some romance thrown in. I like the strong, clear writing. The mystery was good. I like the hint that even though there have been advances some themes will always remain constant in the world of money, and politics. What rubbed the wrong way was the change of POV in from one sentence to another. Became a bit jarring at times.

The main character, Eve, is a very strong, independent, and smart female lead. Not sure how I feel about Roarke, the love interest, who is smart and strong but can be alpha at times. In these Alpha time I find Eve holds her own and that allows Roarke to grow on the reader. But in the beginning he comes off as a creeper and it's hard to shake that image.

This was ok for the most part, pretty run off the mill. Then I got to the flashback: there was no need for that much detail of a rape, especially of a child. Only read the rest as it was near the end, but it completely spoilt the book for me.

I guess I'll just start with the bad news: I will admit there were a number of scenes in this book that made me very uncomfortable. I had a really hard time reading from the POV of the murderer and the pedophilia notes were very weird (a.k.a. not something I usually read in my free time since I study psychology and have to read all about the real thing a lot). The main ‘romantic' scene was a bit rape-y in that she was clearly saying no, not now.
The good news: I rather enjoyed the crime procedural, though it wasn't anything new and most it had that written-in-1995-feel, which makes sense as that was when it was written.
I like Eve and felt that she was portrayed as strong and interesting, she would be a reason to read on in the series. And I have always had a pretty intense weakness for tall Irish men, so Roarke. He is intelligent and mysterious, if a little too forceful and stalker-y. He seems perfect... to perfect? Though I don't know that the author gave me much to help me believe he would fall for Eve... anybody else feel this way?
Eve's friend Mavis provided a nice bit of comic relief and I enjoyed her take on the world and her interaction with Eve. She was incredibly charming with a cold (hard thing to pull off). I hope she is prominent in the rest of the series.
I'm interested to read the next book and see how it goes from there...

Torn between 1 and 2 stars, but I did finish it, so I guess I must've liked it a little bit. I mostly read this as I was curious about the series, and I don't think I'll be reading more of it. The setting in the future is a neat idea, and I think Robb did a good job making a believable not so far off future, but the story was ridiculous. I prefer more subtlety in my reading, and this just wasn't for me.

Loved it. Not as steamy as the books I normally read but good murder/mystery.

I enjoyed this book. Not as good as the Key trilogy (my other Roberts venture) but still good. Eve Dallas is a great, tough, interesting character and I want to read more books in the series. Here's the deal: female characters in genre fiction are becoming more and more interesting to me than women in literary fiction. I read a lot of literary fiction by “serious female writers” for my book club. I'm getting disappointed in the decisions (or lack thereof) of female characters. Stuff just happens to them! They aren't in control of events or the narrative! WTF? It's almost 2010 folks, and woman isn't synonymous with victim. I used to just think it was the Oprah books but it's more than that. Anyway, more women's fiction on the horizon for me. I'm getting on the ranty bandwagon with Jennifer Weiner.