This next book is the third book in the Stephanie Plum mystery series by Janet Evanovich. They are fast moving and easy reads and interesting to a point but they just aren't my kind of book. They take place in New Jersey in the city which I don't care for cities or their crime. I prefer English cottages or Northern locales or at least small towns. I'm more in tune with Joanna Fluke or Agatha Christie and you can leave out the violence and sex....I just want a good mystery. I have to give her credit for the mystery part but for the environment and the characters they're just not my style.
Will I read another one? Like the 4th one in the series? I just might simply because I am so anal (no wonder I like Monk so much! LOL!) and now that I've started the series I am drawn to keep going....DRAT!!!! We'll see when I go to the library tomorrow.
I hope you all had a great Easter! I did but I think I'm not used to the rich food I cooked yesterday as I was a little under the weather last night and this morning but I'm starting to perk up now! Have a great Monday!
I always enjoyed the Stephanie Plum series because they were set in Trenton. I spent may holidays there at my Aunt Leila and Uncle Norman's place when I was growing up. But if you don't have that Trenton connection they might not appeal as much. I'm like you -- I enjoy a good mystery and I like humor with it but I don't want to get inside the head of a mass murderer and you can leave out the gratuitous sex scenes. I think there are now 17 books in the series so you have a long way to go. Have you read any of the Cat Sitter books by Blaize Clement? You might enjoy those
ReplyDeleteI have Stephanie Plum 17 home from the libary right now! I have to say the first 10 or so are better than the latest ones.
ReplyDeleteI have heard that. The latest one was not well reviewed at all so I have not bothered. I think I got through 16. I enjoyed the earlier ones more than the later ones myself.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading too..I would like to read something Amish..so perhaps I will look for that book. I would never have survived an Amish upbringing.
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a great Easter:)
Hi Sam
ReplyDeleteI picked up 2 Fluke books last week but didn't have time to read them. When I get moved I'll try again!
Thanks for the review on the Amish book. I don't think I want to read it now.
I've been away and now we're packing to go North.
Take care-KImberly
I think I already told you the same as what Anne and Carlene have voiced here, the first 10 of the Stephanie Plum series are the best. I didn't think the sex part of it was over done. And everything that happened to her as a bounty hunter was so farfetched that I took it as just that and just enjoyed the ease of reading the books. I like light reading, especially during the summer. I still haven't picked back up The Help again since our trip. Days just go too fast during the week when we have school. My mom was born in OH near Amish country so I've visited the area often. You are right, there is no perfect place, no matter ones beliefs.
ReplyDeleteYou know, the older I get, the less I can handle having heavy foods, or too much food, especially at night. That's why I usually just have cereal or oatmeal for dinner. When I eat real food, I feel really nauseous the next day.
Hope your day is a good one. Tammy
Have you ever read Rosamunde Pilcher books? She wrote wonderfully descriptive books of Cornwall and Scotland. Some fluff but the detail in the lives and homes of the characters makes her one of my favorites.
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