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A review by jenbsbooks
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
2.25
I could have cared less about this book ... that phrase (instead of "I couldn't care less") is a pet peeve of mine, and it was used in this book. But I mean, here, honestly, I COULD have cared less, I could have rated it a 1* instead of 2, or DNF-ed it, which I really considered doing, but I pushed through to finish as I didn't have my next book queued up.
I think I watched the movie a while back ... I don't remember being impressed with it. I've seen SO many rave reviews about this series though, and there's 30+ books, so people must like them. I was wanting something simple and funny. This "humor" was just ehh for me. I'm not totally turned off by crude/vulgar humor; I really enjoy Nick Spalding's stuff. But for people who said this is "laugh out loud" funny ... what? I guess people chuckle at different things.
The whole story just felt stupid to me ... really? That's really happening? That's really the choices these characters are making?
Contemporary in its time (published in 1994), it felt a little dated now (car phone/no cell, "the channel changer" ... you mean remote?) 1st person/past tense. 14 chapters in the Kindle TOC ... the audio "chapters" did NOT line up (16 chapters there) in the Libby edition. Looks like the Audible one did (and this was included in AudiblePlus, but I'd already grabbed it from my library before noticing that).
The main one at libraries in audio though, is an abridged version (although as I didn't enjoy this at all, cutting out half might not have been a bad move). Abridged read by Lori Petty. The original recordings for the full book/series start is C. J. Critt. She was fine. It looks like a new narrator was introduced later in the audiobook series, and feedback seems to say she is better. There is a version of this book re-recorded with the new narrator (Lorelei King) but it was not as easily available (only at one of my libraries, long wait). I don't know that the narrator would have improved things, as my main issues were with the story itself.
ProFanity x30, and some sexual stuff (ironically I was looking at the text while listening to the audio and noticed a discrepancy discussing an early interaction between Plum and Morelli ... the text said "had my panties viewed" and the audio said "fingered" ... I'm assuming there was an edit to the text after the audio had been done.
I think I watched the movie a while back ... I don't remember being impressed with it. I've seen SO many rave reviews about this series though, and there's 30+ books, so people must like them. I was wanting something simple and funny. This "humor" was just ehh for me. I'm not totally turned off by crude/vulgar humor; I really enjoy Nick Spalding's stuff. But for people who said this is "laugh out loud" funny ... what? I guess people chuckle at different things.
The whole story just felt stupid to me ... really? That's really happening? That's really the choices these characters are making?
Contemporary in its time (published in 1994), it felt a little dated now (car phone/no cell, "the channel changer" ... you mean remote?) 1st person/past tense. 14 chapters in the Kindle TOC ... the audio "chapters" did NOT line up (16 chapters there) in the Libby edition. Looks like the Audible one did (and this was included in AudiblePlus, but I'd already grabbed it from my library before noticing that).
The main one at libraries in audio though, is an abridged version (although as I didn't enjoy this at all, cutting out half might not have been a bad move). Abridged read by Lori Petty. The original recordings for the full book/series start is C. J. Critt. She was fine. It looks like a new narrator was introduced later in the audiobook series, and feedback seems to say she is better. There is a version of this book re-recorded with the new narrator (Lorelei King) but it was not as easily available (only at one of my libraries, long wait). I don't know that the narrator would have improved things, as my main issues were with the story itself.
ProFanity x30, and some sexual stuff (ironically I was looking at the text while listening to the audio and noticed a discrepancy discussing an early interaction between Plum and Morelli ... the text said "had my panties viewed" and the audio said "fingered" ... I'm assuming there was an edit to the text after the audio had been done.