Janet Evanovich is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Lizzy and Diesel series, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and Trouble Maker graphic novel, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author, as well as the Fox and O’Hare series with co-author Lee Goldberg.

Characters

Recap

Grandma Azure Mazur disappears and Stephanie is tasked to locate the missing elder woman. Steph and her friends try to locate her, free her from kidnappers and run intoa  series of adventures, some funny, some not-so-much, some dangerous, some not-so-much.

Review

Macaroni and cheese, potato salad, turkey with gravy, macaroni and cheese, a dinner roll, three-bean salad, and more macaroni and cheese. I like macaroni and cheese.” [

It’s the Jersey way, right? Take a chance. Act like a moron.

Lula: he was breathless… I have that effect on men on account of I’m a supermodel.

Lula gives serious Greg Heffley vibe in what she thinks of herself.

Like the callback on: it was flashing in neon across your forehead

Lou Delvina: I got where I am today because I’m tough. I hold a grudge and I get even.

I wish I could too. The getting even part is just not happening. I do a good job of keeping a grudge, though.

“We?”

“Diesel and me.”

Ranger covered his face with his hands, pressing his fingertips against his eyes. It was one of those gestures you do instead of jumping off a bridge or choking some-one.

Diesel: I’m not passive aggressive. I’m actively aggressive.

I anticipated that joke, kinda jokes about myself being actively aggressive and that Diesel said what he said.

Stephanie: “Is my grandmother all right?”

Delvina:

“Was she ever all right?”

Nine:

Don’t appreciate the toilet jokes, have been five or six already. Get on with it.

Ten:

The rocket launcher… Stephanie’s car… it cracked me up, like this is the first time I’m chuckling out loud. What fun! A colleague blowing up your car and scaring off the goons.

I love them pocketbooks, easy to hold, easy to read, pages turn quickly.

The perils of mystery box is that I get books from a series, mostly the last ones in the trilogy or just in the middle at random. most authors do a fine job of introducing every character as if we’re meeting them for the first time, and it helped me get to know every character well enough to enjoy the whole novel. I am curious about Stephanie and Diesel, though; and about Stephanie and her boyfriend Morelli and about Stephanie and Ranger. Would have liked if Diesel and Stephanie were an item.

And then then there was another time when I said something like I don’t like creatures that are crawling, and instead of focusing on the subject, the person said its creature, not creature. Strangely, when I speak to my mobile, as I draft this, my mobile is able to understand what pronunciation.

So here is a confession. I have been writing for more than eight years now, and I can see that I have improved a lot, but I still might make some mistakes. English is not my first language. I am not perfect. Maybe I will make mistakes in my first language also.

I was reading this book and Wimpy kid #6 pretty much in parallel, this during light-on hours and Wimpy kid during light-out because I only have ebooks for the same. That dual-reading might be the reason it took a few days. But otherwise, it was a fast-paced story. There’s mention of food every few pages, which reminded me of the time I’d read Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series: food was inevitably the sixth character in those adventures, wasn’t it?

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