Evanovich, Janet - One for the Money
Tue, Mar. 16th, 2004 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterFinished a few minutes ago and I'm still giggling.
Great last line.
I like Stephanie Plum a lot more than Thursday Next, mostly because she's a Jersey girl through and through, has really awful clothes, and has the worst luck ever. Or the best, it's hard to tell.
I haven't read many mysteries at all -- a few Agatha Christie's, a few Mary Higgins Clark's, and the Thursday Next book (which I think fits better in the mystery slot than sci-fi). I like this one a lot more than the others, maybe because it has a sense of humor, although the Eyre Affair did as well. But a lot of it is just Stephanie Plum. I also liked how she's just a beginner in this book, doesn't know what the hell is going on, and has to learn how to shoot, how to track people, and to do things like that. I suspect it'll be a lot of fun watching her get better at all this in the later books. And I just love the fact that she's constantly strapped for money, looks worse and worse every time, gets her eyebrows singed off, and in general gets in a load of messes the few mysteries I've read don't really get into. She feels like a real person to me... ok, maybe with snappier comebacks, like Crusie characters. Evanovich actually reminds me of Crusie a great deal.
Already crushing heavily on Morelli.
Great last line.
I like Stephanie Plum a lot more than Thursday Next, mostly because she's a Jersey girl through and through, has really awful clothes, and has the worst luck ever. Or the best, it's hard to tell.
I haven't read many mysteries at all -- a few Agatha Christie's, a few Mary Higgins Clark's, and the Thursday Next book (which I think fits better in the mystery slot than sci-fi). I like this one a lot more than the others, maybe because it has a sense of humor, although the Eyre Affair did as well. But a lot of it is just Stephanie Plum. I also liked how she's just a beginner in this book, doesn't know what the hell is going on, and has to learn how to shoot, how to track people, and to do things like that. I suspect it'll be a lot of fun watching her get better at all this in the later books. And I just love the fact that she's constantly strapped for money, looks worse and worse every time, gets her eyebrows singed off, and in general gets in a load of messes the few mysteries I've read don't really get into. She feels like a real person to me... ok, maybe with snappier comebacks, like Crusie characters. Evanovich actually reminds me of Crusie a great deal.
Already crushing heavily on Morelli.
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