In general, this series seems to lack pacing and I think the romance is lacking. She did well with some of the Jersey accents … I don’t love her for Stephanie but she is okay for some of the other characters.įirst book was meh. I was spoiled with Lori Petty narrating books 1-2, I prefer her but this one was okay. Stephanie gets a lot of hate from locals who think Mo being on a killing spree would be a good thing. I’m loving Lori Petty’s depiction of Stephanie and the rest of the cast. *I dislike the negative connotation to pitbulls she made, breed discrimination and ignorant and harmful.

These are quick reads too, under 3 hours. Lori Petty narrates! How cool! Her voice works, it’s fine to listen to (by my standards anyway) and she performs it well, and has the Trenton accent down.Īnother fast-paced, action-packed re-read / listen to keep me company while I work. “Everything in Jersey has a bad order-it’s one of the few things we can count on.” They’re light and funny and listening while I work helps me focus … I sorta grew up reading these and thought it might be fun to listen to them now. Yes, beware, there is a little violence towards women, but this is a MURDER mystery. Evanovich’s dialogues crackle with many LOL moments and the characters come alive. While I like clever female protagonists, I, personally, can take a little inexperience in my heroines especially if she is as spunky as SP.

Warshawski, or Linda Barnes’ Carlotta Carlyle, a Boston PI (also a 6’1’’ redhead). If you are looking for hardboiled female detectives (that have won Shamus awards) try Karen Kijewski’s Kat Colorado series, Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone alphabet soup, Sara Paretsky’s Chicagoan V.I.

I’ve talked with some people who were disappointed because they feel SP is not this shrewd, savvy, experienced investigator. It is amazing she can make her heroine both dumb and smart. We laughed all the way on the unplanned road trip.Įvanovich does a hilarious job of blending Stephanie Plum’s character as a ‘balls of brass’ woman with a cute, ditzy amateur who is desperate enough for money to try her hand at bounty hunting…tracking down the man who ‘stole’ her virginity. What a hoot! Very well narrated and even my husband loved them. I just ran to the bookstore and grabbed this audio book in a hurry. I had never heard of Janet Evanovich before this.

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