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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Good beach & pool reading. Not great literature, but I found myself laughing at Stephanie and her crazy life and attitude.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Another quick fun read from Janet. Can't wait to get more!
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The 1990's lives in these books : ) Fun, fairly quick read. Definitely interested to see where the love interest ends up by book #27!
"A “saintly” old candy store owner is on the lam - and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life."
"A “saintly” old candy store owner is on the lam - and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life."
The plot, as usual, is to follow Stephanie Plum about as she tries to find and bring in bail bond skips, this time one of them being a neighborhood store owner, Mo Bedemier, arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. He is beloved by the area citizenry, so Stephanie finds all of her neighbors and her family feeling a bit hostile to her efforts. Mo has been a saint to one and all, so when he disappears after his arrest and his store remains closed for several days, everyone begins to be concerned. Then bodies start being discovered - everywhere. Since Stephanie is a beginner at the business, she is supposed to get only the non-violent cases, but by the end of this book, she is getting used to unattached people parts. After several murderous threats on her life, Plum begins to seriously consider taking a few martial arts classes, maybe beginning by running for exercise. Perhaps, maybe even eating vegetable smoothies? Hell, no!
"It was almost ten when Ranger brought me back to my parents' house on high street. Poochie, Mrs. Crandle's two-hundred-year-old toy poodle, was sitting on the porch across the street, conjuring up one last tinkle before he called it a night."
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""Getting so a body can't go out of the house," Mrs. Karwatt said. "What with the ice and the shooting. Ever since we put a man on the moon the whole planet's gone to heck in a handbasket,""
****************
Vinnie popped out of his office. "Christ, look who's here," he said. "The bounty hunter from hell. I suppose you want your recovery money for whacking Anders."
"I didn't whack Anders!" I shouted.
"Yeah, right," Vinnie said. "Whatever. Just next time try not to shoot your FTA (Fail to Appear) in the back. It doesn't look good.""
*****************
""If you had a decent sex life you wouldn't need to gratify yourself like this," he said, his mouth curved into a grin, his teeth white and even against the dark beard.
"My sex life is ok."
"Yeah," Morelli said. "But sometimes it's fun to have a partner.""
*****************
""You aren't going to expect me to drink another one of those smoothies, are you?"
Ranger gave me the once-over. "Wouldn't hurt. You look like Smokey the Bear in that nightgown."
"I do not look like Smokey the Bear! All right, so I haven't shaved my legs in a couple of days.....that does not make me look like Smokey the Bear. And I certainly am not as fat as Smokey the Bear."
Ranger did more of the smile thing."
*****************
"I started it up. The car bucked forward a few feet and died.
"Maybe we should look under the hood," Lula said. "Maybe you got a cat in your engine. My neighbor, Midgie, once got a cat in his engine. Cat looked like it had been put through a food processor by the time Midgie figured out to check under the hood."
Stuart made a face that said, Yuk!
"Happens all the time," Lula said. "They get cold and they go to the warm engine. Then they fall asleep and when you go to start the car.......cat stew."
******************
Poor Stephanie Plum. She doesn't get much respect from the author. But neither does anybody or anything else in this, or any of the rest, of the bounty hunter's books. Satiric comedy is the point of this series, so if you are of the sensitive type or find politically incorrect statements horrifying, put the book down now.
Me, I'm laughing.
"It was almost ten when Ranger brought me back to my parents' house on high street. Poochie, Mrs. Crandle's two-hundred-year-old toy poodle, was sitting on the porch across the street, conjuring up one last tinkle before he called it a night."
****************
""Getting so a body can't go out of the house," Mrs. Karwatt said. "What with the ice and the shooting. Ever since we put a man on the moon the whole planet's gone to heck in a handbasket,""
****************
Vinnie popped out of his office. "Christ, look who's here," he said. "The bounty hunter from hell. I suppose you want your recovery money for whacking Anders."
"I didn't whack Anders!" I shouted.
"Yeah, right," Vinnie said. "Whatever. Just next time try not to shoot your FTA (Fail to Appear) in the back. It doesn't look good.""
*****************
""If you had a decent sex life you wouldn't need to gratify yourself like this," he said, his mouth curved into a grin, his teeth white and even against the dark beard.
"My sex life is ok."
"Yeah," Morelli said. "But sometimes it's fun to have a partner.""
*****************
""You aren't going to expect me to drink another one of those smoothies, are you?"
Ranger gave me the once-over. "Wouldn't hurt. You look like Smokey the Bear in that nightgown."
"I do not look like Smokey the Bear! All right, so I haven't shaved my legs in a couple of days.....that does not make me look like Smokey the Bear. And I certainly am not as fat as Smokey the Bear."
Ranger did more of the smile thing."
*****************
"I started it up. The car bucked forward a few feet and died.
"Maybe we should look under the hood," Lula said. "Maybe you got a cat in your engine. My neighbor, Midgie, once got a cat in his engine. Cat looked like it had been put through a food processor by the time Midgie figured out to check under the hood."
Stuart made a face that said, Yuk!
"Happens all the time," Lula said. "They get cold and they go to the warm engine. Then they fall asleep and when you go to start the car.......cat stew."
******************
Poor Stephanie Plum. She doesn't get much respect from the author. But neither does anybody or anything else in this, or any of the rest, of the bounty hunter's books. Satiric comedy is the point of this series, so if you are of the sensitive type or find politically incorrect statements horrifying, put the book down now.
Me, I'm laughing.
fast-paced