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Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum, #16) Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I blame the fact that I read this on my terrible chest infection. How many times have I sworn off this series? But sometimes, all you want in the world is a new book exactly like an old book, you know?

Plus one star for a moment of actual clarity. Plus one star for the thing with the alligator. Minus a star for repetitiveness, sexism, racial stereotypes, and complete failure to move! Fucking! Forward!

Okay, I’m really done this time. No really. Really really. I swear. If you see me backhere again next summer, kick me, okay?

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Date: 2010-06-26 02:38 am (UTC)
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Hee!

I think that's Janet's secret superpower. The power of Sucking Us Back In.

If she'd just quit with those moments... that moment of clarity (and I know the one you meant). Those moments of genuine human charity when Stephanie treats a suspect like a person. Those moments, few and far between, when life in the burg is just so beautifully amusing.

Then we could all walk away with happy scorn.

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