{"id":343,"date":"2005-07-17T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=343"},"modified":"2005-07-17T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-17T15:52:00","slug":"robb_jd_21_surv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/07\/robb_jd_21_surv\/","title":{"rendered":"Robb, J.D.: (20) Survivor in Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link_112161561272115642\" name=\"link_112161561272115642\"><\/a> <a id=\"112161561272115642\" name=\"112161561272115642\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I appear not to have logged <strong><cite>Survivor in Death<\/cite>, the prior J.D. Robb novel<\/strong>, when it was released this winter, so will catch up on it now. This was actually a good one, I thought; an entire family has their throats cut as they sleep&#8212;except for the young daughter, Nixie, who&#8217;d snuck out of bed to get a snack and left her friend, over on a sleepover, asleep in her room. Eve Dallas finds Nixie hiding and covered in her parents&#8217; blood, a situation that has more than a little resonance for Eve; when Nixie refuses to go with a social worker, Eve takes Nixie with her back to her home.<\/p>\n<p>Besides its effects on Eve, the situation with Nixie presents Roarke with some different issues than usual, which is refreshing. It&#8217;s resolved in a way that&#8217;s a little too easy, but, to my relief, far less easy (and wrong) than it could have been. Oddly, this book isn&#8217;t being released in paperback until the end of next month, not simultaneously with the hardcover of <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/07\/robb_jd_22_orig\/\"><cite>Origin<\/cite><\/a>; I&#8217;ll look forward to re-reading it then if I still need to get the bad taste of <cite>Origin<\/cite> out of my mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appear not to have logged Survivor in Death, the prior J.D. Robb novel, when it was released this winter, so will catch up on it now. This was actually a good one, I thought; an entire family has their throats cut as they sleep&#8212;except for the young daughter, Nixie, who&#8217;d snuck out of bed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/07\/robb_jd_21_surv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robb, J.D.: (20) Survivor in Death&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,89,6],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-in-death","category-mystery","tag-robb-j-d"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}