Book - Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich

We are all going through the motions here. Even Ranger, not sexy. Though that may be because I tried his shower gel. For some reason I forgot that RANGER IS FROM NEW JERSEY. His shower gel smells like...a guy from New Jersey who is trying to smell sophisticated. Stephanie - how fat is she, really? What size pants does she wear? Is she someone who is whining because their size 8's don't fit anymore, or is she in the 12-14 size range? In this book, Stephanie quits her bounty hunter job. But that doesn't keep her from being trapped in a cycle with her cop boyfriend, or going through the same motions with Ranger (her cars blow up, he replaces them). Just to show she can't break with the past, the bad guy is a bad guy from an earlier book (maybe the first one?). I think we all need to move on here - Janet Evanovich, Stephanie, Joe, and me. I waited until someone offered to loan me this book because I was already losing faith - after investing in hardcovers for Eight, Nine, and Ten.

When I first started reading her books I laughed so much! Mostly I block that I spent four formative years living in New Jersey. But joining Stephanie Plum as she cruised around the Burg, it came flooding back to me. I started to get in touch with my inner Jersey Girl. Stephanie was earthy and funny and vain and imperfect. I will take a look at the early books to see if Stephanie has changed or if I have.