Unfortunately, Roarke never managed to work his magic on me. (That's what I read urban fantasy for anyway.) And the hunk here is something special - (1) he is drowning in money (2) super hot (3) has morals (4) buys the heroine stuff (5) feeds her (6) he adores everything about the heroine from the get-go (7), (8), (9) and (10) HE SPEAKS WITH AN IRISH ACCENT. What you are actually anticipating is the heroine's hookup with some handsome hunk. Mystery-solving, some world-building (in this case, futuristic instead of paranormal) - it all is only background noise. The attraction here is the same as in the most of urban fantasy IMO. The popularity of Naked in Death is completely understandable to me. and I was enjoying it up until too swift of a turn into Romancelandia.
