Janet Evanovich is amongst my favorite writers. She's right up there with Agatha Christie, Alexander McCall Smith and J. K. Rowling in my book. The lady writes in manner that is laughable, breezy and possibly a little in your face but funny at the end of the day.
All her books are pretty predictable. The heroine will come out a winner through a sheer combination of grit, luck and good fortune. She makes the Sex and the City women look like amateurs and Lauren Weisberger seems to be a heavy read once you've read Janet.
Her Stephanie Plum series is an ongoing slap dash combo of humor, mystery and the power of luck. Stephanie has pretty large doses of good luck to her credit. She blows up cars, garages, homes, discovers dead bodies, has a crazy grandma, does her level best to choose between two men but is unable to do so. Some people might call it chick lit but this is an entirely diffrent genre in itself.
I got the first of the series "One for the money" free with some other books that my Brother in Law bought me as a gift and since then there's been no looking back. Her latest offering in paper back "Lean Mean Thirteen" was my companion on a recent bus ride that lasted six hours. Needless to say the hours simply melted into oblivion as I savored the book.
The old dilemmas continue - Grandma is as crazy as ever, Stephanie's mum is still busy being the bran muffin, Stephanie can't decide between Joe and Carlos and her cars still get blown up regularly.
The new twist is that Lula is getting pretty serious about Tank, ( whose real name is Pierre ) and in a fit of hyperventilation lambasts Ranger which in any other circumstances would be suicidal but since the exchange takes place in a hospital, she lives. And its not because she receives medical attention.
Read it if you like your heroines sassy, your heroes studly and a plot where inspite of the unbelievable everything turns out okay in the end.
Happy Reading :)
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