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nancyflanagan 's review for:
Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven
by Janet Evanovich
Two-plus stars.
Like every long-time Stephanie Plum reader that I know--i.e., the discriminating ones--the Plum series lost its sparkle about twenty books ago. Their chief advantage is that you don't ever have to get caught up, because the m.o. is the same: Stephanie gets in and out of scrapes, with a couple of sort-of amusing sidekicks (and sometimes, as in this book, a new, drop-in sidekick) and inevitably gets rescued (and given a new car) by one of her two love interests: Joe Morelli (cop who used to be a bad boy), and Ranger (bad boy turned security cop). Plus--they're super-fast reads. I started this one about 8 hours ago, and--with substantive breaks for phone calls, answering email, running a couple of errands and baking cookies--just finished.
That's it. People would have stopped reading this series around book five, because the plots are meaningless and the characters don't advance--except that Evanovich is a decent writer. Two or three times she bubbled up with a hilarious exchange or a poignant moment that just grabs you. But it doesn't last. And her other books, I'm assuming, don't sell. Stephanie Plum is a money machine. She is the TV show that jumped the shark a half-dozen seasons ago, but retains its ability to draw viewers and sell ads.
Too bad.
Like every long-time Stephanie Plum reader that I know--i.e., the discriminating ones--the Plum series lost its sparkle about twenty books ago. Their chief advantage is that you don't ever have to get caught up, because the m.o. is the same: Stephanie gets in and out of scrapes, with a couple of sort-of amusing sidekicks (and sometimes, as in this book, a new, drop-in sidekick) and inevitably gets rescued (and given a new car) by one of her two love interests: Joe Morelli (cop who used to be a bad boy), and Ranger (bad boy turned security cop). Plus--they're super-fast reads. I started this one about 8 hours ago, and--with substantive breaks for phone calls, answering email, running a couple of errands and baking cookies--just finished.
That's it. People would have stopped reading this series around book five, because the plots are meaningless and the characters don't advance--except that Evanovich is a decent writer. Two or three times she bubbled up with a hilarious exchange or a poignant moment that just grabs you. But it doesn't last. And her other books, I'm assuming, don't sell. Stephanie Plum is a money machine. She is the TV show that jumped the shark a half-dozen seasons ago, but retains its ability to draw viewers and sell ads.
Too bad.