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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Lots of Ranger in this one. Love the "vordo"!! Ha ha ha
Wow, that was one of the best showdowns in the whole series!
I love Stephanie and all the characters but I always like how the other books ended with her either in Joe's arms or some how at Joe's.....not this one. I had mixed emotions with Joe/Stephanie/Ranger.... We will have to wait and see but at least we only have to wait until November for the next book :). Lulu is still a crack up and Mooner too. I was just left with this weird feeling where J/S/R are concerned.
A fun romp. Like another reviewer called it, it's good popcorn reading--quick and light. I love the humor and don't give a s**t if Stephanie Plum ever makes a choice. (I don't ever want sitcom folks to end up married with children, either.)
What can I say - brilliant. After several cooks where it felt like the story line was getting stagnant, Evanovich knocked it out of the park with this one. There was a lots of humor, lot of sex (with Ranger!!!!!) and probably the darkest mystery since the first book (if you can really call any of her mystery plots dark). Loved this book and highly recommend for anyone who just wants a quick, light read for summer.
If you have committed to 16 books of any series, you already know what you are going to get with #17. Look for familiar characters, mayhem, dead bodies, an evil eye, ruined cars, questionable romantic choices.... The usual for a Stephanie Plum story. Oh, and this time there is a bear.
A Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum book is like the gooey dessert already cut and sitting at your plate at a banquet dinner. It looks good, and you know you'll enjoy the first couple of bites--but if you eat the whole thing, it will be cloying.
I told myself I was through with Stephanie, Lula, Joe, and Ranger. (Grandma Mazur--maybe I could use some more of her.) I resisted, for a long time. Then I saw "Smokin'" sitting on top of the "hot titles" rack at the library, and grabbed it, on impulse. Although I brought seven more books home with me, I turned to "Smokin'" first. Read it in an afternoon. And the first few chapters were fun. Like seeing old friends, laughing at the familiar dialogue.
And then it got stupid. Really stupid. Cars burn up. People get shot. People get buried. Pointless characters do pointless things. Stephanie acts like an idiot, repeatedly. The Stephanie-Joe-Ranger love triangle heats up, cools down, heats up.
How much more of this can we take, until the series moves in a new direction? Evanovich has a great, light touch with dialogue and builds Jersey humor into crime fiction. But these characters aren't going anyplace. Ever. We're reading the same book over and over again.
I told myself I was through with Stephanie, Lula, Joe, and Ranger. (Grandma Mazur--maybe I could use some more of her.) I resisted, for a long time. Then I saw "Smokin'" sitting on top of the "hot titles" rack at the library, and grabbed it, on impulse. Although I brought seven more books home with me, I turned to "Smokin'" first. Read it in an afternoon. And the first few chapters were fun. Like seeing old friends, laughing at the familiar dialogue.
And then it got stupid. Really stupid. Cars burn up. People get shot. People get buried. Pointless characters do pointless things. Stephanie acts like an idiot, repeatedly. The Stephanie-Joe-Ranger love triangle heats up, cools down, heats up.
How much more of this can we take, until the series moves in a new direction? Evanovich has a great, light touch with dialogue and builds Jersey humor into crime fiction. But these characters aren't going anyplace. Ever. We're reading the same book over and over again.
They used to be very funny and unpredictable.
They're getting stale and the same "will she won't she" isn't interesting anymore.
They're getting stale and the same "will she won't she" isn't interesting anymore.
Way better than sixteen! Laughed and laughed! A great light read for a wet, gloomy day.