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** {{spoiler|Eve's mother}} is hinted to be this a few times throughout the series, and is fully revealed to be this in ''New York To Dallas''. {{spoiler|1=For starters, Stella is apparently not her real name. In fact, she has also gone by the names Sister Suzan, Sarajo Whitehead, and Sylvia Prentiss. She may not even have a name. She is a drug addict and engaged in prostitution. She also boosted cars, and ran all sorts of cons. She had consensual rough sex with a guy and pretended to be raped so she could get close to one rape counselor and eventually kidnap her. She partnered up with Richard Troy and had Eve Dallas just so she can get money. She stole Troy's money and ran off, knowing what Troy was going to do to Eve and considered Eve worthless, detestable and not worth remembering. She partnered up with pedophile and [[Complete Monster]] Isaac McQueen to kidnap people and try to help Isaac get revenge on Dallas. She thought she would get loads of money, and she actually loved Isaac. She hates everybody and everything, and she slashed the tires of a man's car just because his wife made a comment about the illegal drugs she takes. She has no qualms about teaming up with pedophiles, and would apparently watch a rape without blinking. When she got caught and restrained, she broke out and killed a cop without a second thought. She apparently has no [[Freudian Excuse]] for her behaviour, and it could be that she was always like this to begin with. Really, her death at Isaac's hands was no more than her well-deserved comeuppance}}.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]] - This overlaps with the below. Robb is pretty good about noting in the setting when laws were actually changed, such as gun laws, 'morality' laws, and so on. So it's quite glaring when Eve acts like she can take suspects to the precint without arresting them and 'charge them with Obstruction of Justice' if they don't come in or talk. None of which are actually viable in the United States. Sure, this could have changed as well, but unlike the others, there's no lampshade hanging of this. It reads more like Roberts has no clue about the law for arrests and questioning.

* [[Dystopia]] - Sure, the characters think it's okay, and there's all sorts of space travel and VR and autochefs yay. But then you actually start gathering stuff together. Like the fact that someone's taken white-out to the Bill of Rights. That real meat, coffee, tobacco, and other such things are so rare and expensive that some people go years without ever tasting them. That the environmental movement has grown so powerful that there are Green Cops who come around to hassle you if you're not being environmentally conscious enough. '''All''' your activities online are monitored at all times by the forces of CompuGuard. If Eve didn't rattle on about warrants and the "revised" Miranda (and get around the first half the time), you'd immediately start wondering if her world wasn't a low-level fascist state.

** Then, what's not a Dystopia borders on being a [[Mary Suetopia]]. Women are paid to be mothers if they choose to stay home with their children, and people can retire quite young (the book is vague... late fifties, sixty at the latest?) and live quite comfortable lives on their default retirement package... keep in mind people live well past 100 in the setting, so it's not all that unreasonable to think someone could live on their social security anywhere from two to ''four'' times as long as they worked. Where all the money for this comes from without taxes being so high that everyone just gets a living allowance from the government is never explained.