{"id":662,"date":"2009-03-28T21:18:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T21:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=662"},"modified":"2024-01-23T22:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:37:50","slug":"robb_28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/03\/robb_28\/","title":{"rendered":"Robb, J.D.: (28) <cite>Promises in Death<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent novel from <strong>J.D. Robb, <cite>Promises in Death<\/cite><\/strong>, opens with a murder that strikes close to home: the victim is Amaryllis Coltraine, a cop and the lover of Chief Medical Examiner Morris.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the more personal nature of this case, this book fell somewhat flat for me. It may just have been that, reading it at three in the morning as I did, I couldn&#8217;t suspend disbelief enough: I couldn&#8217;t pretend that there was a chance that Morris <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> get justice and start healing, and so there wasn&#8217;t very much suspense. I realize that this could be said about basically every entry in the series, so it was probably me, not the book.<\/p>\n<p>(Though it didn&#8217;t help that the charming quirks of Morris&#8217;s personality get suppressed by his role as the grieving loved one.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, apparently this book was not copy-edited, otherwise a sentence like &#8220;Art radiated from the walls in an eclectic mix from bold, bright colors and odd shapes to elegant pencil drawings of naked women in various stages of undress&#8221; would never have been published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent novel from J.D. Robb, Promises in Death, opens with a murder that strikes close to home: the victim is Amaryllis Coltraine, a cop and the lover of Chief Medical Examiner Morris. Despite the more personal nature of this case, this book fell somewhat flat for me. It may just have been that, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/03\/robb_28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robb, J.D.: (28) <cite>Promises 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-662","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\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}