Pestered by her close New Jersey family, Stephanie Plum offers to catch high-school crush Joe Morelli, cop turned bail jumper, for her cousin Vinnie's company. She questions "working girls" to find the missing girlfriend of vicious prizefighter Benito Ramirez while Joe secretly watches her back. Ranger mentors her and supplies vehicles when hers explode.
I will start this by saying that I read this book for the
first time over ten years ago. I just had it sitting in my closet and never
read past this first one, so I thought it was time I reread it and finish the
series.
There are some good things and some bad things.
Stephanie Plum is a funny gal. There were some quotes that
had me giggling. Her family is also hilarious especially her grandmother.
Stephanie seems determined enough. . . but she seeks out too
much help and seems really helpless at times along the way. Now, this is her
first stint as a bounty hunter, and like I said, I haven’t read the rest of the
series. I am hoping she becomes more independent or she will be the exact
opposite of the female protagonists that I love, i.e. Lindsay Boxer.
That said, this book IS entertaining. I remember liking it
when I read it the first time, and I did enjoy it when I read through it again.
It took me a little longer than I would have liked to get through it. But, such
is life, I suppose.
There was a lot of action for the first novel in a series,
so I can only imagine that each subsequent novel will bring the same punch.
We shall see.
3.5/5 stars.
Memorable Quotes: “I wondered if nine in the morning was too
early to drink beer. Of course in Moscow it would be four in the afternoon.
Good enough.”
“I didn’t feel like a professional. I felt like an idiot. Id
criticized foreign governments for using chemical warfare, and here I was
buying nerve gas from a woman who waxed off all her pubic hair.”
“I really felt like a jerk, because here was Morelli being
nice to me, and what I actually wanted to do was hop on over to Bernie’s to buy
a blender and get my free daiquiri mix.”
