Friday fun Book Review - The Heist

 I love Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. They are just fluffy.  Here she joins forces with Lee Goldberg for a fun romp with an FBI agent, Kate O'Hare and a heartless con artist, Nick Fox. She's been chasing him forever. Now, she got him. What to do with him?

Work together? Say what?

In The Heist, this improbable team are after a corrupt investment banker who's been hiding on a private island in Indonesia.  cover blurb - He tests O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill. Not to mention the skills of their ragtag team made up of flamboyant actors, wanted wheelmen, and Kate's dad. High speed chases, pirates, and Toblerone bars are all in a day's work...if O'Hare and Fox don't kill each other first. 

p. 218  What we are doing is more like a heist, only with a person instead of an object. A successful heist is one that nobody notices until it's over and the thieves are gone.

One blink and you might miss a trick. Or the sparks that fly (of course) between Kate and Nick. Were you expecting less...heck no. 

This book is just stupid fun and you can fly through it - total no-brainer and that's a good thing sometimes. 

Let The Heist steal your brain for a nanosecond. 

Book Review: Sizzling Sixteen

I returned a book to the library and didn't plan to peruse the stacks. Books are piled up at home, some on loan from friends, and I need to catch up on them. However, can't help myself. I had to wander into the new release area, just to check out the choices. Well, who can resist a new Stephanie Plum adventure? Not me.

Janet Evanovich's Sizzling Sixteen sticks to the formula she created back at One for the Money. It's a breezy, no brainer read that amuses and entertains. Stephanie Plum's wisecracking lines and ability to get in and out of trouble as a bounty hunter keeps the pages turning. This is fun fluff, cotton candy for the eyes, and perfect for a Sunday afternoon on the patio.

Stephanie doesn't like guns (she's a bounty hunter!), eats a ton of fast food, partners with her cousin, Vinnie (he's a total sleaze), and works with Lula (a former prostitute). Plum's on again, off again boyfriend, Joe Morelli is a cop, and she's still tempted by Ranger, the mysterious/hot/sorta dangerous security specialist.

In Sizzling Sixteen, Vinnie's been kidnapped due to his gambling problem. Money's on the line, bad characters abound, not to mention a huge gator, and Stephanie keeps wrecking cars. Grandma Mazur's broken her foot and keeps us laughing with her perpetual visits to funeral homes. (Trust me, Grandma is a worthy recurring character - the comic foil)

There's nothing new in this book, no deep character studies, no poetic interludes. Evanovich churns out a reliable tale with a feisty heroine. Made for a sizzling Sunday read, indeed.