September Books 8) To The Nines

8) To The Nines by Janet Evanovich

I first got into Janet Evanovich by picking up some of her earlier Stephanie Plum books at Vienna Airport. And since I was changing planes there again, and failing really to get engaged by the Classic Science Fiction Novel I had been reading on the flight from Chisinau, and saw the latest in the (excellent) bookshop, I bought it and read it. My verdict: don’t bother, folks. The formula of a sexy yet insecure woman working as a New Jersey bounty hunter was great, indeed usually hilarious, while she was tracking down small-scale miscrents. Internet-surfing serial killers just somehow aren’t as funny. Plus there were huge gaping plot holes, especially with regard to her boyfriend’s frequent breaches of police standard operating procedure. Fairly cheap, at least.

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  1. Kinda #1 for 5-Doc also, for the two Tegans; though if I remember correctly #2 and #3 were stronger, with the unhinged Hindle and happy-happy Colonel Sanders effectively unsettling, and the intense Wheel of Time sequence. Though IIRC it’s not the snappiest of stories.

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