Interesting anthology of 'chick lit'.

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	• Dead of Night J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, ... Jove, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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yummy story...yummy series

okay, so i really only bought it for the J.D. Robb story. I collect all of her books, the In Death series is incredible. Can't wait for Suite 606 and Salvation In Death.

"Eternity in Death" had real bite

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. I read Nora Robert's "vampire" trilogy in late October, so I was curious to see how J. D. Robb would handle the same topic. I couldn't have been better pleased. I liked the tension between the characters, and Dorian made a great villian for a novella. The running "vampire" jokes from Eve's co-workers were a lot of fun. Peabody's uneasiness and Roarke's willingness to cover all bases in protecting Eve were spot on. Last, I laughed myself silly over the ending.

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Interesting anthology of 'chick lit'.

I had reservations about reading this collection, thinking the stories would be soppy romances with little or no action. I was pleasantly surprised by the first three stories. All of them were just the right length, ending before they had a chance to become repetitive. Roberts was the only author I'd read before, but this was the first time I'd read any of her 'JD Robb' work. While the futuristic setting of the first story seems a bit gimmicky for an ongoing series, it didn't overwhelm the vampire or crime elements witha lot of gratuitous sci-fi references.
The middle two stories were both very good. I had a few quibbles with the loose ends at the end of 'Amy and the Earl...' but I liked the two lead characters(even if their dialogue was occasionally cheesy, as others have mentioned.) Langan's story seemed to take on a life of its own, perhaps because the events simply happened with no magical or scientific 'push'.
The last story was the weakest of the four. I felt it had the worst dialogue, and the weakest plot, of them all. If I could make a wish involving a 'magic carpet', I would ask to have that story removed from the book, so that I could give it a higher rating!

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Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant Eve Dallas in a supernatural showdown with a most seductive criminal: a vampire. An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other's arms-in a stirring tale from Mary Blayney. When a city girl visits a Scottish castle in Ruth Ryan Langan's story, she is thrust into a timeless romance with a mighty Highland laird. And Mary Kay McComas gives an unhappy wife a magic-carpet ride into an alternate reality to show her the grass isn't always greener.

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