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Very late in the game, I recently started JD Robbā€™s ā€˜In Deathā€� series and subscribed to her newsletter. In the latest, her publicist notes,

When we were at The Greenbrier last summer, Bonded in Death -- In death #60 -- was only months from release. Nora sat down with me to film answers to many questions about the In Death series. (Iā€™ll be honest here and say that I kind of demanded that she do this.) My questions were all over the place: from how Eve Dallas showed up in her head to how Nora would like off-planet travel. She was kind enough to give me over an hour to run through my three pages of questions.

The result is a video series we call In Death In Depth. We just released the 7th episode and I plan on at least 10 more in the series.

You can watch to the episodes here:

Wow, I didn't know she did this.

I'll have to check it out soon, a bit late this evening to do it.

Love it!!

I listened/watched those available today and theyā€™re awesome. Short, but informative and so interesting hearing her tell you herself. Number 8 to be posted either this or next Friday šŸ˜

Just watched them. So, so glad she didn't stop at the trilogy.

Same šŸ˜Š

Head's up for those, like me, still reading through ID for the first time: Episode 10 has a bit of a spoiler in the opening question, but it's teensy in the overall scheme of things.

šŸ¤£ Robb quote, "... This is why I write the books and the readers do not ..."

I stopped reading In Death at 6 for years and then one of my groups started a series read. I had mix bag of ratings up to then but the last I read #6 was really great though the one before it I had given a 2. I had left on a high note and thought that I would return someday so when they got to 7, I read along, gave that a 4 so really good but then I didn't read again until 11 was being read so I played catch up then I more or less read 1 per month... OK, sometimes I read 2 or 3 and then waited. We caught up year before last. Now we read twice a year on release. I absolutely love the characters today. I'm doing a reread and most of the books that I was critical of then, I'm usually not as critical on reread as I just like time with my characters.

Think, a 60 book series once a month read takes 5 years. Ours took about 4 1/2 years and we did have people that lasted through, more or less, with falling behind and catching up and getting ahead.

Wow. Nice to have a group to read through it, too and to find you enjoy it when initially weren't sure is fun, too.

I've been making really good progress due to bingo. I'm on #14 now. Hopefully I won't stop, but I'm not sure if I'll continue my back-to-back (or close to) read through without the BSB push. Guess we'll see :)

After the 8th book I didn't have to be pushed to it, just had to be in the mood. Still is like that on reread. I usually go to it when I'm in a slump or just in the mood for the characters. I'll usually read 2 or 3 in a row. My reread seems to be taking as long as my original. :-)

Other than some of the series re-reads we host here, I donā€™t typically do a lot of re-reading. I would imagine that eventually Iā€™d enjoy re-reading this series once Iā€™ve gotten far from the beginning.

Whenever I get in a funk or just really pulled back to a world, I reread, sometimes it is only 15% of my reading for the year and once it was over 40%! Usually it hovers in the low 20s range.

Nice :)

Steph wrote: "...
šŸ¤£ Robb quote, "... This is why I write the books and the readers do not ..." ."

That was good.

I'm in a reread of Murderbot... again... it is the Apple TV show that pushed me back to read it, again.

What do you think of the Murderbot TV show? I have mixed feelings. The episodes are far too short, imo. Iā€™ll be interested to see how they portray ART. I think Skarsgard is doing a good job though.

I liked the first In Death, but didnā€™t love it. I didnā€™t see what the big deal was about. I actually found Eve annoying. By the end of the second book, I was done. Ridiculous fan for life. I preorder them all, read them as soon as they come out, and Iā€™ve done rereads of the entire series at least 3 times, maybe 5? Yes, all of them.

Weā€™ll be waiting for Murderbot to end before starting it.

It took me a couple of books to get into In Death as well. Eve is definitely an acquired taste. But once I got several books in I became attached to the characters. They and their lives are more interesting to me, in most cases, than the actually cases theyā€™re working.

Steph wrote: "Eve is definitely an acquired taste. But once I got several books in I became attached to the characters. They and their lives are more interesting to me, in most cases, than the actually cases theyā€™re working...."

Yep, I agree. The characters are what suck you in.

Slooch! *giggles*

Love all of the secondary characters so much!

I actually miss them, as it seems to have gotten so big that you donā€™t get to see most of them in the most recent books.

Just finished #17 and loved it šŸ˜Š

Iā€™m keeping up with Robbā€™s lil video clips and enjoying them. Some spoilery bits in later recordings, but theyā€™re so small and things youā€™d imagine happening down to the road so they havenā€™t been bad. The last one is Friday, I think.