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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
This book series is like a car crash that I just can't look away from...
She is one of my favourite series. It's similar to the rest. Always a fun read.
I couldn't get enough of Stephanie, Lula and Grandma Mazur in the first few installments. I know I missed several before #20, which is no longer a disappointment. Yuck! Nothing remains to draw me toward these formerly fluffy but funny dramadies. Jokes are flat; sexual tension is gone; Grandma Mazur is lame. Stephanie's mom showed a little chutzpa in this episode, but not enough to make me regret spending 2-3 hours on this mess. So long, Stephanie; it was fun for a bit!
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in—not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game, because—just Stephanie’s luck—the godfather is his actual godfather. And while Morelli understands that the law is the law, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing everything she can to throw Stephanie off the trail.
The usual 'laugh out loud' Stephanie Plum adventure. A good read.
The usual 'laugh out loud' Stephanie Plum adventure. A good read.
Gotta love a story that includes a runaway giraffe named Kevin.
Fast read. Nothing laugh out loud funny like some of the others. Wasn't terrible but not my favorite. The whole giraffe thing was just odd.
I'm not asking for a lot from this series, just a few good belly laughs and a few fantasies about Ranger and Morelli and this book couldn't even seem to deliver that. I'm willing to put up with a lot in a pop fiction book; I read trashy romance novels but I feel like Evanovich was bored even writing this book. I wanted to like it. This series gave me an outlet last spring when I sorely needed laughs and an escape and it couldn't even deliver that.
Honestly if I didn't need this for two challenges I wouldn't have bothered. Series can get long in the tooth and Stephanie's has hit that point. How many times can we read about who should she pick, Ranger or Morelli? Honestly 100 pages could have been cut out of this mess (all the love triangle crap) and you wouldn't miss them.
I wasn't sure what was supposed to be funny. Stephanie's incompetence? Because there is SO much of it. Her car getting shot? Even in Trenton this many bullets flying with no cops coming is ridiculous. Should I even get into the fact that there is a giraffe running around town for days and no one attempts to capture it? (there is some absolutely lame explanation at the end)
Plum is completely incompetent this time out, losing her man multiple times (two men I should say, she only manages to capture a woman). So we're treated to endless attempts to capture the gangster Uncle Sunny (who is Morelli's godfather) and everyone is blocking her path including Morelli who has the emotional capacity of a robot. He's flat entirely, including his Uncle Sunny, the woman he wants to marry being shot at, being tossed from bridges and otherwise harmed. Given his reaction, the choice is easy. Go with Ranger. At least he was vaguely concerned.
Ranger has the more interesting case. Elderly women are turning up dead in a dumpster. Plum's grandma is roped into this and of course could be a potential next visit.
If we had stayed with Ranger's case this might have been better. Even it had a lazy ending.
I wouldn't go out of my way to read more of this series. Even Lula wasn't that much fun this time, unless you're amused by hooking to buy a fancy purse. Speaking of money, how is Plum unable to buy pizza or a muffler but can go buy a vacuum cleaner? Not even getting into the idea that someone 'close to 200 pounds' is so fat it makes the car drag. Sigh.
I wasn't sure what was supposed to be funny. Stephanie's incompetence? Because there is SO much of it. Her car getting shot? Even in Trenton this many bullets flying with no cops coming is ridiculous. Should I even get into the fact that there is a giraffe running around town for days and no one attempts to capture it? (there is some absolutely lame explanation at the end)
Plum is completely incompetent this time out, losing her man multiple times (two men I should say, she only manages to capture a woman). So we're treated to endless attempts to capture the gangster Uncle Sunny (who is Morelli's godfather) and everyone is blocking her path including Morelli who has the emotional capacity of a robot. He's flat entirely, including his Uncle Sunny, the woman he wants to marry being shot at, being tossed from bridges and otherwise harmed. Given his reaction, the choice is easy. Go with Ranger. At least he was vaguely concerned.
Ranger has the more interesting case. Elderly women are turning up dead in a dumpster. Plum's grandma is roped into this and of course could be a potential next visit.
If we had stayed with Ranger's case this might have been better. Even it had a lazy ending.
I wouldn't go out of my way to read more of this series. Even Lula wasn't that much fun this time, unless you're amused by hooking to buy a fancy purse. Speaking of money, how is Plum unable to buy pizza or a muffler but can go buy a vacuum cleaner? Not even getting into the idea that someone 'close to 200 pounds' is so fat it makes the car drag. Sigh.
I feel every book now is sort of the same. She needs to do something different.... Finish it up... Make it different... I think it's time...
This was silly and hilarious, though I wish Kevin the renegade giraffe had made more of a substantial appearance. Where does she come up with this stuff?