Janet Evanovich
Takedown Twenty
New York: Bantam Books
November 2013
ISBN: 978-0345542885
The next highly anticipated novel in the Stephanie Plum series!
Abstract: New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sammy" Sunucchi misses his court date, it is up to Stephanie to find him. Unfortunately, no one in Trenton, New Jersey will turn him in. Meanwhile, hot security specialist Ranger needs Stephanie's help in solving the bizarre death of a top client's mother, a woman who happened to play bingo with Stephanie's Grandma Mazur. Before Stephanie knows it, she is working side by side with Ranger and Grandma at the senior center, trying to catch a killer on the loose - and the bingo balls are not rolling in their favor.
With bullet holes in her car, henchman on her tail, and a giraffe names Kevin running wild in the streets of Trenton, Stephanie will have to up her game for the ultimate takedown.
Review: Although Janet Evanovich novels are notoriously funny, this book can be summed up into one word....BORING! Evanovich should have wrapped this series up in Sizzling Sixteen! How many more times can Stephanie's car get blown up? These books have become perdictable: Stephanie will blunder her way through a bounty, her car will get blown up, she will still be deciding between on and off again boyfriend Joe Morelli and hot and dangerous Ranger all while deciding if bounty hunting is the job for her. Evanonich seems to be running out of ideas and I am not even sure she would enjoy reading this book. Seriously, a giraffe running loose in the streets of New Jersey? However, this book will be popular among the masses but only because we want to see this series end!! Will book 21 finally tie up all loose ends? One can only hope!!
I gave on the series a while back ( the triangle got to be too much), but love the holiday novellas with Diesel the angel. I read a preview chapter in the back of The Heist. Mixed, but may give it a chance.
ReplyDeleteI love the Wicked series that features Diesel and Lizzy. I find it more interesting than the Plum series because each book (so far) is different enough to keep it interesting. The series is based on the seven deadly sins which makes it even more interesting to me. I am so ready to Evanovich to end the Stephanie/Morelli/Ranger triangle. It has been dragging on for 20 books and needs to end!!
DeleteAround book 10 I wanted to quit, I think I took books 11 and 12 home and scanned to see if she had Steph finally pick a guy. Then I gave up. Diesel is in her new series. First is Wicked Appetite. It's fun, in the same vein as the Plum novels but not many cars blowing up. Unfortunately, I can see her trying to drag those out too.
ReplyDeleteI know for sure that there will be 7 because they are based on the 7 deadly sins. Hopefully Evanovich will end the Wicked series there and not drag it out. However, you are right, she probably will.
DeleteJanet Evanovich is one of the most sought-after authors at the library where I work. I would like to read one of her books and would probably would start with the first book in the Stephanie Plum series. I don't know if I could read the whole series though. I have so many books lined up that I want to read when I graduate in May. I am going to be reading non-stop for a long time!
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