Review of Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich

What can I say about Stephanie Plum? Well….she’s an attractive, 30 something, Jersey girl living in Trenton with her hamster, Rex and her off and on policeman boyfriend, Joe Morelli.

Of course, the thing we have to swallow here is that Stephanie’s become a bounty hunter working for her brother-in-law, Vincent. Now, she certainly isn’t in the same league as Domino who we recently saw portrayed on the big screen and she doesn’t fall into the same league as Dog the Bounty Hunter who you can see on reality TV on cable.

To be honest, bounty hunting is a device to get Stephanie involved in a bunch of hair-raising escapades which raise a smile but also make you root for her when she’s trying to pick an FTA up.(Failure to Appear in Court).

The amazing thing is that Ms Evanovich has managed to sustain this series for what is now 13 books. I started losing the plot at Up to the Nines but recently received this one from the S.O. as a birthday present.

Although I probably won’t bother reading more unless they are gifted to me, I did enjoy #10. It has the usual humour and stupid behaviour of Ms Plum and the usual on/off romancing with Morelli and her bounty hunter colleague, Ranger.

Of course, half the stuff was unbelievable. I mean, why do you think a street gang called the Slayers would put a hit out on a harmless piece of fluff like Stephanie Plum? Or that Stephanie and two other women from the bail bonding agency would go and kidnap a gang member to beat out some information from him!

Of course, you always have her grandmother, Masur, and the big 1950s Buick to raise some smiles. In every book she seems to lose at least one car and is force to borrow the power blue '50s Buick. In this one, her car is written off at the very start.

Grandma Masur should get a franchise of her own. She usually has the best wise cracks in the book and her love of a good funeral goes beyond simple voyeurism.

I probably wouldn’t buy another but I still enjoyed this book very much. Possibly more so because I haven’t read one recently.