Book: Smokin' Seventeen
Nov. 20th, 2011 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_lodden31. Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
A good, quick read. T pointed out in conversation that I "seem to be keeping up with [my] reading", which made me realize that I don't always note it when I'm catching up on a backlog of review postings versus when I'm posting something new. This one is something new; I borrowed it last week, started it last night, and finished it today. Lula didn't piss me off as much, possibly because for some of the book she was unavailable and replaced by Mooner. I like Mooner (though if he were a constant companion, he'd be more annoying than Lula ever dreamed of being-- a little Mooner goes a looooooong way). Stephanie gets over some of her guilt about having two men. The reveal was... lacking. I knew who the killer was about a third of the way in. Stephanie did not. Still, it could have been a lot worse, and this series has never really been about good detective work. The good parts of the series are still good. The bad parts are still Lula.
And, to keep the record clean: I started reading The Best American Mystery Stories several months ago, and after poking at it and then setting it back down several times, I finally got annoyed enough to stop reading it last week. The Players Come Again was plane reading in September. The Sleeping Beauty was plane reading... um, I don't know. Possibly the same trip in September, in the opposite direction. The Snow Queen and One Good Knight, I purchased shortly after finishing The Sleeping Beauty, and read pretty quickly afterward, because I was in the groove of the series. (All three are popcorn-like, and only take a couple of days to read. Less if you're young enough to go without sleep and clean dishes.) Sizzlin' Sixteen was read about a week before I posted the review; it sat on my desk as a reminder for that week until I finally got around to typing it up. The books listed as part of the Kindle cleanup were read varying amounts of time before their entries, since I have completely failed to train myself to post reviews in a timely manner.
A good, quick read. T pointed out in conversation that I "seem to be keeping up with [my] reading", which made me realize that I don't always note it when I'm catching up on a backlog of review postings versus when I'm posting something new. This one is something new; I borrowed it last week, started it last night, and finished it today. Lula didn't piss me off as much, possibly because for some of the book she was unavailable and replaced by Mooner. I like Mooner (though if he were a constant companion, he'd be more annoying than Lula ever dreamed of being-- a little Mooner goes a looooooong way). Stephanie gets over some of her guilt about having two men. The reveal was... lacking. I knew who the killer was about a third of the way in. Stephanie did not. Still, it could have been a lot worse, and this series has never really been about good detective work. The good parts of the series are still good. The bad parts are still Lula.
And, to keep the record clean: I started reading The Best American Mystery Stories several months ago, and after poking at it and then setting it back down several times, I finally got annoyed enough to stop reading it last week. The Players Come Again was plane reading in September. The Sleeping Beauty was plane reading... um, I don't know. Possibly the same trip in September, in the opposite direction. The Snow Queen and One Good Knight, I purchased shortly after finishing The Sleeping Beauty, and read pretty quickly afterward, because I was in the groove of the series. (All three are popcorn-like, and only take a couple of days to read. Less if you're young enough to go without sleep and clean dishes.) Sizzlin' Sixteen was read about a week before I posted the review; it sat on my desk as a reminder for that week until I finally got around to typing it up. The books listed as part of the Kindle cleanup were read varying amounts of time before their entries, since I have completely failed to train myself to post reviews in a timely manner.
