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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Beach reading. Easy to read in short bursts. Not a lot of substance but funny characters and scenes.
I was pleasantly surprised. After the story about Kenny in part 2, we got more of a thriller and less character-building in part 3. Stephanie will have to figure out where is Uncle Mo who is universally loved. Almost a saint. Shit hits the fan quickly.
This book is a little bit about Ranger as well. He starts showing some character beyond his muscles, but not too much, we'll need to wait a few more books for that.
This book is a little bit about Ranger as well. He starts showing some character beyond his muscles, but not too much, we'll need to wait a few more books for that.
I just re-read this one and upped the rating from 4 stars to 5. The upgrade was based on the fact that I literally found parts to be laugh-out-loud funny! Funnier than I remember when I was rapidly adding books to my "read" list.
funny
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Guys, I'm doing it. I'm giving five stars to a Stephanie Plum book. Either I've relaxed my stringent star-giving rules, I /really/ enjoyed this installment, or both. Most likely both. I literally read the cover off this book. Yes, it came from Goodwill, and yes it was just dangling there when I started, but while I was reading this and laughing out loud the cover fell clean off.
I've been reading this series all of out of order (so far, I've read 1, 4 and 5, 10-14), but, man, I'm glad I went back to this one. This is my favorite Stephanie adventure ever. Evanovich puts the plot pedal to the metal and never lets up, just like the way Lula drives. This time, Stephanie is pursuing kindly old Uncle Mo, the candy shop owner, who missed his court date. He'd been arrested for carrying concealed (but who doesn't? "I mean, why else would a person want a gun if not to carry it in her purse?") but, of course, he's missing, and is probably involved in a heck of a lot more than just dispensing milkshakes at his candy shop.
Along the way, Stephanie wrestles a college drop-out in a chicken costume, her hamster is threatened with syringe full of heroin, all the old people in Stephanie's apartment building charge into the hallway heavily armed ("Mr. Kleinschmidt came shuffling down the hall carrying an M-16"), Stephanie's truck is blown up by a preacher carrying a rocket launcher, and during a high-speed chase Lula rear ends a man with a dead body strapped to the top of his car and ends up with said body stuck to her windshield. ("This dead motherfucker fell out of the sky onto the hood of my car!") They then put the body in the trunk and Lula ties a little scarf around the stiff's ankle. For safety.
What I really appreciated about this book is that it wasn't just comedy and slapstick. The mystery was intriguing, morally complicated, and, dare I say it?, thought-provoking. Evanovich did a good job of blending a somewhat gritty and grim mystery with the comic elements, something that was a bit more disparate in the first book.
This book was full of other bits of wonderful wisdom from both Lula and Stephanie. Here are my favorite bits:
Stephanie: "When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don't need ironing."
Lula: "I'm lucky because I was born with a positive personality. Even when things aren't looking too good, I don't let myself get beaten down. I just start pushing and shoving. Pretty soon I'm so loud and full of bullshit I just forget about being scared."
Lula: "After church is time to pick up a ho and get high."
I've been reading this series all of out of order (so far, I've read 1, 4 and 5, 10-14), but, man, I'm glad I went back to this one. This is my favorite Stephanie adventure ever. Evanovich puts the plot pedal to the metal and never lets up, just like the way Lula drives. This time, Stephanie is pursuing kindly old Uncle Mo, the candy shop owner, who missed his court date. He'd been arrested for carrying concealed (but who doesn't? "I mean, why else would a person want a gun if not to carry it in her purse?") but, of course, he's missing, and is probably involved in a heck of a lot more than just dispensing milkshakes at his candy shop.
Along the way, Stephanie wrestles a college drop-out in a chicken costume, her hamster is threatened with syringe full of heroin, all the old people in Stephanie's apartment building charge into the hallway heavily armed ("Mr. Kleinschmidt came shuffling down the hall carrying an M-16"), Stephanie's truck is blown up by a preacher carrying a rocket launcher, and during a high-speed chase Lula rear ends a man with a dead body strapped to the top of his car and ends up with said body stuck to her windshield. ("This dead motherfucker fell out of the sky onto the hood of my car!") They then put the body in the trunk and Lula ties a little scarf around the stiff's ankle. For safety.
What I really appreciated about this book is that it wasn't just comedy and slapstick. The mystery was intriguing, morally complicated, and, dare I say it?, thought-provoking. Evanovich did a good job of blending a somewhat gritty and grim mystery with the comic elements, something that was a bit more disparate in the first book.
This book was full of other bits of wonderful wisdom from both Lula and Stephanie. Here are my favorite bits:
Stephanie: "When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don't need ironing."
Lula: "I'm lucky because I was born with a positive personality. Even when things aren't looking too good, I don't let myself get beaten down. I just start pushing and shoving. Pretty soon I'm so loud and full of bullshit I just forget about being scared."
Lula: "After church is time to pick up a ho and get high."
Heaps of fun and laugh-out-loud funny. (I hate the work (is it a word?) LOL). A fab series!
I love this series. The writing is hilarious and the characters are quickly becoming some of my favorites ever created. Definitely recommend.
This is my favorite of the series so far. Lula's character was developed more and had me in stiches whenever she appeared. I laughed to the point of tears reading Chapter 11.