Is Nora loosing her touch?

[scottishlass]

I have finished J.D. Robb's latest Eve Dallas story Origin In Death and I have to say I didn't like it one bit.
So yes she upped the ante into the action/sci-fi parts of her series but hello - can anyone of her fans say honestly that they are reading the In Death series because of the sci-fi angle? I don't think so. It is all about Rogue and Eve. We know that Eve and her brilliant team will get the murderer at the end, we want to know how she is faring with her husband and how they burn up the sheets between each other. THAT is what In Death has been all about for more than 20 books now.

But I also noticed in her normal mystery and love stories that Nora Roberts has toned down her smut scenes like in her new In the garden trilogy and in Northern Lights even though the story telling left me breathless the smut scenes were mediocre ... sniffle ... what is the world coming to? I mean SHE is the queen of smut scenes. I always wanted to be her when I grow up.

Please please Nora, whoever told you that you will sell more books by toning down the sex was WRONG! You combined quality writing with the guilty pleasure of high quality smut, don't change that!

Comments

[ceruleanedge.livejournal.com]

many of the authors who used to write like nora, [though i only read one or two of her books] like catherine coulter and iris johansen for example, have done the same, toned down the *smut*. dunno if it's some thought like "i'm more established so i don't have to write that stuff now" or "i'm growing older so i should write more respectable stuff". whatever the reason, i agree una, the latest guilty pleasure books i've read have not been up to par. haha, i think that's a paradoxical sentence. :-)

[ghostwriter155.livejournal.com]

I read Imitation In Death. I liked the fact that even though "In Death" is a series, you could pick up a book that took place mid-series and understand the storyline.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Well this is the only good thing, but with Eve and Roarke it is always better to read from the beginning starting with Naked In Death.

[koellegirl.livejournal.com]

Well Una, I am glad I am not the only one, finding NR last in Death lacking. It wasn't so much the few smut scenes, but there was actually not much of a developement of the characters. I can only hope the next one will be better.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yeah I hope so too. And I hope the last book of the In The Garden Trilogy will be a bit raunchier too.