{"id":636,"date":"2008-11-16T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=636"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:35:57","slug":"robb_27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/11\/robb_27\/","title":{"rendered":"Robb, J.D.: (27) <cite>Salvation in Death<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the library, more light reading, <strong>the latest Eve Dallas novel by J.D. Robb, <cite>Salvation in Death<\/cite><\/strong>. A priest drops dead during a funeral Mass, and it turns out that someone&#8217;s put cyanide in the sacramental wine.<\/p>\n<p>This turns out to be a type of story that I&#8217;d been wanting Robb to write (series spoilers, ROT-13: jurer n zna vf gur bar gb chyy gur ernyyl ybat-enatr pba (pbzcner <cite>Fgenatref<\/cite>)), but I&#8217;m not convinced by the portrait of the central character, which is what the entire book revolves around. It was probably pushing plausibility anyway, but I felt that Robb threw in one detail too many, which resulted in a muddled and contradictory whole.<\/p>\n<p>Eve and Roarke&#8217;s past traumas are also stirred up by events of this book, after taking a back seat for a bit in the series. I&#8217;ve sometimes been unsatisfied with how these have been handled in the past, so I should note that I thought it worked pretty well here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the library, more light reading, the latest Eve Dallas novel by J.D. Robb, Salvation in Death. A priest drops dead during a funeral Mass, and it turns out that someone&#8217;s put cyanide in the sacramental wine. This turns out to be a type of story that I&#8217;d been wanting Robb to write (series spoilers, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/11\/robb_27\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robb, J.D.: (27) <cite>Salvation 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-636","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\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}