Additional Review 6
Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich
30! Yes, she has written and I have read 30 of these guys! Like The Simpsons or SouthPark the characters never age while technology and society changes around them.
I have been reading these since I was in Year 8/9! I read the first one on a residential music course, after it was loaned to me an older girl who played the flute. I thought them hilarious then and that still stands up, at least for me. I went back home and got my friend Chanley into them too and for a while we traded books and gushed about Ranger (me) and Morelli (her). The movie of the first book came out while we were in University and we watched it together while I visited Chanley in Cambridge. So these books hold a special place in my heart.
No. 30 was a better than average adventure for Stephanie and Lula, with guest appearances from Grandma and Ranger. Morelli was conspicuously absent from this one, but honestly that didn't matter much. This was as funny as ever and several cars were destroyed along with a couple of apartments. Bob the dog was well represented, although there were not enough (any?) trips to cluck-in-a-bucket. There was the requisite viewing at the funeral home and in a first Stephanie made it out of New Jersey on a trip to Massachusetts/Vermont/Connecticut (does't it matter which one?).
I still love Stephanie Plum even after all these years and I will continue to read as many of these wacky stories as Janet will provide for me.