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Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
2010 Answer: Delia Peabody (In Death series) or Ancilla Trent (The Nonesuch)

Hands down, still have to go with Delia Peabody. Why? Because she's good at smoothing things over, administrating, and finds people telling her things she never really wanted to hear. She's also concerned about her body (but not enough to really beat up on herself and actually change her habits) and she's got a guy who loves her just the way she is. (No, this does not make

desert_sdwndr McNabb...)

And she's got a smart ass streak.

My kind of character.

DV

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Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series
2010 answer: Visions in Death (runners up Witness in Death and Haunted in Death)

So, thinking about this, and it's really hard to pick just one book in this series. Visions in Death does have one of the hands-down best Peabody moments of the series.

Thinking about it, however, I think I'd want to go with Divided in Death. This is where the series went hardback, and it features a mystery that hits a lot closer to home than some. I'd pick this one, though, because I think it has one of the pivotal moments in the series - when Eve tells Roarke that he can't get vengeance for what happened to her when she was a kid, because if he does what he wants to do, it's murder committed in her name. (

desert_sdwndr, guess which In Death title we'll be listening to?)

There's some honorable mentions, however. Memory in Death features another crime for Christmas, and has a bad guy you actually kind of sympathize with. New York to Dallas brings a lot of things full circle in a way that was true to the series that I really enjoyed. Celebrity in Death played off several of the others, including Origin in Death and Witness in Death, and was quite enjoyable.

Haunted in Death is still the best short story. The short stories incorporate too many paranormal slants for me to really enjoy, but Haunted in Death is a well-done ghost story and murder. It's a staple of car trips.

I've seen several In Death books over here, and everytime I do, I pick it up and look through it. It's like meeting an old friend and curling up for a chat.

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Decided to cut the previous days, they can be found by hitting the tag "30 day book meme".

Day 03 – Your favorite series
2010 Answer: In Death series by J.D. Robb

I still read and collect a lot of series. I like series because I like walking into a place and meeting old friends, and I like seeing how people change things up, how characters grow and change. I'm a big fan of TV series as well, for that very reason. Looking back, I see some of the series have dropped off the radar, but others are still hanging strong on the bookshelf. I will say it's much harder doing this meme without access to my actual bookshelves.

That being said, the In Death series is still my favorite. Yes, it's popcorn for the brain, and several of the last ones have been solid but not exciting, but largely a bad day with J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) is better than some authors' best days. I think she shows adept handling of a long-running series with a large cast, bringing characters in when those characters help the story, and still giving us that little bit of fan service. She's still an automatic buy in HC - I haven't bought the latest one, but that was more due to an error by BN.com rather than my lack of desire to read it (although I hear it was a little flat). Eve and Roarke are just fun. The characters grow and change and develop, and it's fun to watch. The audiobooks are also done very well (with a few voices I don't care for) to the point that I now hear the reader in my head when Eve talks on the page. You can curl up with an In Death novel and have a good afternoon or evening, and honestly sometimes that's all I want.

The first time I did this, I thought about including a YA series. However, many of the YA series I enjoy (Nancy Drew, etc) are static, and I think the best part of the In Death series is watching the changes.

I'm wondering what the next few books will bring, after a development in one of the last books, where Eve refused something that I honestly thought Robb had been trying to hint at and show she was ready for. I do like the expanded team of police in the books now. Robb/Roberts has said the series will end before Eve and Roarke have children, which I think is good - although I do laugh when I read a review that says Eve needs to get over not wanting kids. In short, In Death is always about escape for me, when I'm not in the mood for a purely romantic escape.

DV

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Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series - So, having admitted how much I love the "In Death" series (so maybe I'm not a serious-all-the-time reader, your point?), let me share my favorite book with you. There's several good contenders, but I'd have to go with Visions in Death, which is near the midpoint of the series currently. It's the one where the psychic uses her connection with a serial killer to try covering up her own murder of a rival (in her eyes at least)... and for those of us enjoying the series continuity, it's the one where Ian McNabb finally finds out that Delia Peabody (girlfriend and about-to-be cohabitation partner) never did sleep with Charles Monroe, the sexy licensed companion (sex work is legal and regulated in Eve Dallas's world). Overall, it has one of the better plots, and some of the better dialogue. Runners up would include Witness in Death, where the killer commits the murder during a production of Witness for the Prosecution with Eve in the audience, and the short story "Haunted in Death", where Eve wraps up an eighty-five year old murder and a much newer one, with a few brushes with the spirit world.

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Day 03 – Your favorite series - There are so many answers for this one, because I read quite a few series.

There's the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, the Nantucket series by SM Stirling, Star Wars (pre-switch to Del Rey), the various incarnations of Star Trek, LMB's Chalion series, the Discworld books, and Elizabeth Moon's Serrano series and Vatta's War series ...and that's just on the sci-fi/fantasy shelf.

Mysteries tend to run to series as well: the Gaslight Mysteries by Victoria Thompson, the Amelia Peabody series, Peter Wimsey, early Robert Tanenbaum Karp and Ciampi, Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt series, and The Cat Who... books.

Let's not even open the YA box.

For favorite series, however, I'm going to go with JD Robb (Nora Roberts) and the "In Death" series. Yes, it's like popcorn or candy for your brain. I enjoy the range, and I love her characterizations because she does NOT overdo the characters with too many walkons, or give us the LKH treatment of page-long descriptions. Some of them are better than others in quality and plot, and despite the series having a sort of futuristic facade (set in 2060s, with stuff like hovercars), the one that was actual sci-fi is probably my least favorite of the group. They're an instant buy-in-hardcover, because she's never let me down yet. I love Eve, even though in real life I'm probably more like Peabody. :) Yes, Roarke is pure wish fulfillment, but if you're going to dream, might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

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