Pros: Amusing read
Cons: Some of Stephanie's dumbness.
The Bottom Line: Something fun to read for those times when
you're bored or want something fun to read.
Welcome to Stephanie Plum book #15. I'd actually read this book a few days after
it came out. But then I forgot to review
it, so here we are a year later with #16 due out in a week. I read it again. It's fine because for the life of me I
couldn't remember what this one was about.
I just remembered Lula and a lot of barbeque sauce.
Lula, as it turns out, has been witness to a murder. A beheading, really. And now the killers want to snuff out their
only witness. Except they're pretty bad
at, well, everything, so in the process they just end up with more
witnesses. Now Lula's trying to keep her
behind (all of it) from getting taken out, and of course Stephanie has to
help. Meanwhile Ranger's security
services are being compromised and he needs Steph's help too. Except helping Ranger might be a lot spicier
than helping Lula, especially since Steph and Morelli are on the rocks...
I pretty much read this novel in a day because it's fast,
fun, and not too involved. It's pretty
much a day in the life of Stephanie Plum, and it's been long enough that I was
as tired of Stephanie's dumbness as I'd recently been getting. But that doesn't mean I don't remember. Steph is notorious for making moronic
decisions when it comes to her skips (the people who don't turn up in court
after posting bail). Twice in this book
she allows people to go into the house or another room for some reason while
standing there, la de da, oblivious to the fact that the skip is getting
away. At least the second time she
acknowledged how stupid she was being, which helped to redeem her a little
bit. However, I still think she's dumb
for even entertaining the idea that Morelli would let Joyce Barnhardt touch him
without a HAZMAT suit. Come on, the guy
likes sex but he's not about to jump into bed with something that
questionable. He's not stupid.
It's pretty much all Lula drama this time, so if Lula annoys
you, sorry. If not, then you'll be in
for some giggles. I laughed aloud a few
times because I just haven't read any Stephanie Plum-ness for a while. There are plenty of good bits to enjoy, and I
do like (from a writerly perspective) how Evanovich takes typical non-verb
words and makes them into verbs, like "I fobbed my way into the
garage." as in with a key fob.
Of course, there's plenty of Ranger goodness, and that's
really hard not to enjoy. In fact, you
have to be dead not to enjoy Ranger. All
in all though, it's a good time. All for
fun, so don't take it seriously. Just
enjoy the ride. And the barbeque sauce.
Ok, maybe not the barbeque sauce...
NT
Originally posted 2010 on Epinions.com
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