|
Suite 606
Berkley Product Details |
Product Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb headlines a hot new anthology of paranormal romance.
FEATURING A NEW EVE DALLAS NOVELLA.
J.D. Robb plunges Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the violent aftermath of a ritualistic murder.
Mary Blayney, investigates a deception that has kept two lovers apart for years.
Ruth Ryan Langan brings a lost man out of a storm to face a breathtaking twist of fate.
And Mary Kay McComas follows a mother, her son, and a wizard lost through the threads of time.
|
Click on Product Listings for Details!
Suite 606
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Berkley; 2008-11-04
- Label: Berkley
- Studio: Berkley
- ISBN: 0425224449
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 11 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #811
Avg. Customer Review:
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Loved JD Robb's Novella ... others not so much 2008-12-02
Comment: I finally brought myself to finish reading all the short stories in this last night. OMG! I loved J.D. Robb's novella, but then I love those characters and it isn't hard to please me ... just give me a new story.
Basically, we get our favorite characters back again for another mystery. Eve is sooo thrilled to be at a party of a friend of Roarke. She finally sees the light when her hubby says they can go home shortly. (Her feet are killing her and we all know how much she loves these shindigs.) Then low and beyond screaming breaks out and some guy, covered in blood, holding a knife breaks into the party and promptly almost passes out. Eve quickly assesses the situation and finds the murder scene. Looks like a satanic ritual took place, in addition to an orgy. A poor girl is found dead in the fancy hotel suite, having had her throat cut open and been sexually abused. Needless to say, Eve is on the case, along of course with her husband Roarke who finds out one of his employees got pulled into the mystery (suprise, surprise). I basically loved this novella. But if you love JD Robb's books, chances are you will like this one as well.
As for the others. Well, there's not much positive I can say except for the last one. I had to force myself through them ... they were so flat and one dimensional.
The second one is based on a couple who apparently fell in love and were to marry five years in the past. Its set in regency period. The girl was already engaged and it is her financee's best friend she falls for. The fiancee turns out to be an absolute self centered jerk and contrives to lie to his friends to keep them apart so he can win the prize, or girl. Needless to say, this guy is a real winner (NOT!). Fast forward five years and he got himself killed. But for some random, unexplained (not much of one, anyway) reason, he is forced to haunt a room in his house and eventually confess his sins to the newly reacquianted couple. But only after the couple figures out his lies that kept them apart. Pretty flat story in my opinion. Perhaps if the author had more time and space, it'd be better. But couldn't really like the characters much. The frustrated former best friend appears like the most lively and real of the characters. But the others just seem like whisps of characterization.
And then of course we have the random story about a man who gets into an car accident (in the present) and randomally finds himself at some inn he was searching for. LOL! He's a tortured cop who goes on leave after he sees his best friend and partner take a bullet for him. Anyway ... he falls in love with one of the sisters at the inn ... and finds out her mom dissappeared leaving with a farm hand several years earlier. Oh, did I mention all this appears to take place in the past? For instance, no electricity, etc., at the inn. The main girl and her sister are kept from leaving by the evil stepfather. And of course a mystery ensues. Any guesses to where this goes? Didn't surprise me much. Again ... the love between the main guy and girl while sweet seemed forced and rushed for some reason. Yes, it's a small book, but still. But this is all I'll say about this one so I don't give anything away.
The only other one I enjoyed was the final story about the time traveler. That caught my attention a bit more. It grabbed me pretty early on. Plus, it was cute because it tied in the other short stories, including flying cars. Any wonder where those are from? Basically, a mom and her boy are at a museum. The boy is ticked as his mom and goes out of his way to say nasty things, but we don't find out until later why. Anyway, the boy finds an unusual stone and is wisked away into the past where he meets a mysterious stranger who calls himself a wizard. Mom soon finds a way to follow. Anyway, apparently the wizard needs the special stone to get the mom and her son back to their time. They, of course, didn't bring it with them. He has one stone, but is more powerful with two. Hence the drama flows as these three muddle through time, meeting Nazis, seeing ghosts and flying cars, etc., as they try to get back to the moment where the wizard can get his second stone back. And what a wizard!! These three are the most realized characters in my opinion. It's a short story, but the author managed to get me invested in them and hoping they'd make it. And the mom's secret (why her son is mad at her) ... broke my heart.
Overall, I gave this three stars because of JD Robb and the last novella. The other stories I really could have done without. Cheers to all!
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Outstanding! 2008-11-29
Comment: J.D. Robb has done it again! All her books are great and "Suite 606" is no exception. Loved it!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Looking for Eve Dallas? 2008-11-28
Comment: Are you and Eve Dallas fan? Included is a short story that you will love. As usual, Eve is on her toes solving a crime that started at a party. The book includes other short stories also. I enjoyed all of them but Eve is the reason I bought this book.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Did I Miss the Connection Here? 2008-11-19
Comment: What a disappointment. I buy these anthologies to get introduced to new authors -- that's how I've discovered new favorites like Angela Knight, Lora Leigh and Nalini Singh. But apart from the J.D. Robb story, which was excellent (a miracle since Nora's books in her Nora Roberts line have gotten so formulaic), I wouldn't read one of the other three author's work, even if I were given the books at no charge. Their stories were so poorly written and oddly constructed that in one case (Mary Blayney) I wondered if this was actually a 10th grader's English composition. The other two weren't much better. And the supposed tie-in to "Suite 606" that should have served as a connecting thread between the stories was virtually non-existent. If it were not for the Eve Dallas story, I would have rated this one a minus one star and returned it to the store for a refund.
Save your money.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Save your money 2008-11-19
Comment: Suite 606
Three stories each connect somehow with a Suite 606, then the last story concerns time travellers that make cameo appearances inside the first stories. A potentially interesting idea, but they didn't pull it off.
This book may be of marginal interest to devoted fans of Eve Dallas, since it contains a short story about her. However, it's not a very good Eve Dallas story. The other stories feature cardboard characters and threadbare plots.
Eve Dallas fans should buy one of the other books in the In Death series instead, such as Salvation in Death. Everybody else, save your money.
|
|
|
Books 
Enlarge View
