listened on Audible
1995, Berkley Books
296 pgs.
Mystery/Police Procedural/Fantasy (Futuristic Stuff)
Finished 6/18/18
Goodreads rating: 4.25 - 43,331 ratings
My rating: 2
Setting: NYC, 2058
My comments: I definitely didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the first one. I've been contemplating possible reasons while examining the criteria that I subconsciously apply to most of what I read. Setting, character development, plot, interest level, and since this was an audio read, the voice, tempo, emphases, and so many other characteristics a reader brings to a book. The plot was boring, the killer's actions at the end ridiculous....out-of-character. But the way the protagonist was portrayed by this reader didn't match what I have - or want to have - in my head. She gave Eve a particularly bitchy edge that just didn't sit right with me. Also there was something about her voice -- it was too loud and screechy and just didn't seem to fit "my" character of Eve Dallas at all. She had Rourke down okay with a fine Irish lilt, but....
So when you have a lousy story that isn't read to your liking, the rating isn't going to be too high. It was all I could do to finish.
Goodreads synopsis: It is 2058, New York City. In a world where technology can reveal the darkest of secrets, there's only one place to hide a crime of passion-in the heart.
Even in the mid-twenty-first century, during a time when genetic testing usually weeds out any violent hereditary traits before they can take over, murder still happens. The first victim is found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second is murdered in her own apartment building. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims were beautiful and highly successful women. Their glamorous lives and loves were the talk of the city. And their intimate relations with men of great power and wealth provide Eve with a long list of suspects -- including her own lover, Roarke.
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