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Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel)
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Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel)
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Considering how close Stephanie came to getting killed in Ten Big Ones and after reading the back of this book, I was chomping at the bit to get this one started next. After so much of sticking to the formula I was wondering if Evanovich was finally going to take a detour! From the back of the book: Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she quits. She wants something safe and normal. But the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now...Reading that again, it makes me laugh that my husband is so into this series. It sounds so girly. LMAO This does remind me of a bit that had me rolling around laughing, the bit about being "attacked" by dogs. Trust me, it wasn't to bite her and once again she ends up with mystery stuff in her hair.... O_o I guess this book was a slight change of pace in that Stephanie is desperately trying to get away from all the crazy crap she associates with bounty hunting, but it all just refuses to go away! Yes, there's more car and building explosions around her. Yes, Grandma Mazur is still being morbidly interested in going to the viewings at Stiva's funeral home, except this time she goes the extra mile wondering if there will be an open-casket viewing for a woman who was literally being plucked from the bushes hours later. To top of it off, the explosion that killed her was associated with Stephanie and her stalker so her grandmother wouldn't exactly be welcomed at the viewing, but try telling that to Grandma Mazur! She has an avid curiosity to find out if they managed to find the woman's rather infamous giant facial mole... !!! One thing that hasn't changed is the relationships between Stephanie, Morelli, and Ranger. And while I'm at it, why exactly does Morelli keep getting described as the "tough Trenton cop" anyway??? He has yet to do anything that I can recently remember! He usually just moseys on over after the flames and bits have finished raining down and does some yelling and arm-flailing trying to stop Stephanie from, you know, leaving the house. I have to say I'm biased. I seriously favor Ranger and wish this "love triangle" thing would just go away. Morelli's wish to keep Stephanie around for sex and have her be a housewife, something she'd never want and would definitely be really, really bad at, just disturbs me. Ranger, on the other hand, actually gets things done. And rather than always trying to lock up Stephanie, he just goes along with her and keeps her out of trouble side by side with her. Sure occasionally he tries to lock her up too, but he's not such a knuckle-dragger about it. Overall, yet another hilarious installment of a Stephanie Plum book. I read the first chapter of the next book Twelve Sharp, and got hooked. From what I read, MAYBE there'll be something new and interesting in the Ranger front! I can't wait to get ahold of a copy. |
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