{"id":471,"date":"2006-11-26T18:18:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T18:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=471"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:17:28","slug":"robb_born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/11\/robb_born\/","title":{"rendered":"Robb, J.D.: (23) <cite>Born in Death<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J.D. Robb&#8217;s <cite>Born in Death<\/cite><\/strong> is the book where poor Mavis finally gets to give birth. (She&#8217;s been pregnant since book 15, <cite>Purity<\/cite>, and this is #23. This is what happens when books take at most a month each.) I got it out of the library a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with writing in the mystery genre is that, paradoxically, the genre itself sometimes removes suspense. When one of Mavis&#8217;s friends disappears, it&#8217;s pretty clear that since we&#8217;re already halfway through the book, the disappearance must be related to the ongoing mystery, and given the existing setup, it&#8217;s not hard to guess how. I found the book a little flat as a result.<\/p>\n<p>As for the plot itself, I have one quibble and one internal debate. The quibble: I would have preferred just a little more attention to a key underlying assumption of the underlying conspiracy. The debate: whether the stuff that made it traumatic for Eve was gratuitous.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mavis finally has her baby, and it&#8217;s all heartwarming and stuff, which is what I was reading the book for anyway, so I can&#8217;t complain too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Robb&#8217;s Born in Death is the book where poor Mavis finally gets to give birth. (She&#8217;s been pregnant since book 15, Purity, and this is #23. This is what happens when books take at most a month each.) I got it out of the library a couple of weeks ago. The problem with writing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/11\/robb_born\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robb, J.D.: (23) <cite>Born in Death<\/cite>&#8220;<\/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-471","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\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}