Fearless Fourteen and Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich

[lightreads]

Latest Stephanie Plum book and one of those money-grubbing attempts to capitalize on the paranormal romance kick "between the numbers" novellas that don't have canon weight.

Fourteen is exactly what you think it is – I laughed so hard I nearly made myself backfire at least once, it went by in about three hours, Stephanie never makes any noticeable progress in this whole love-triangle life decisions thing, and the single strand of real interpersonal complication tossed out in the beginning gets all but retconed by a sentence on the last page.

My ratio of delight to exasperation has been tilting bit by bit with each additional book, and I think it will continue to do so as long as we're in this endless holding pattern. It's still pretty comfortably balanced, but that won't last forever.

Comments

[readerjane]

I've hit the tipping point. This will be the first Plum book I do not buy. For me, all the laughs fell flat in this one, and there wasn't enough of anything else to make it worth the while.

And I was absolutely appalled at the lobotomizing of Ellen Plum. This is the woman who ran her Buick over a man who was trying to kidnap her daughter, and now all she can do is drink herself unconscious? Feh. I'm switching to Patricia Briggs.

[lightreads.livejournal.com]

That's a shame.

My big OMGWTF moment of the book was where Joe tells Stephanie how much better their lives would have been if he'd knocked her up when she was sixteen. UM WHAT?!