"I'm Stephanie Plum. My mother says that I'm famous and have to set a good example. She's right, but I'm from Jersey and truth is, I have a hard time getting a grip on the good example thing."
Swing off the Jersey Turnpike and you'll be in bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's neighbourhood. You'll know it because all hell will be breaking loose. Not that she looks for trouble - it just seems to follow her. In Ten Big Ones it explodes at a deli, and when Stephanie pegs a robber as a member of a vicious Trenton gang, they peg her as dead. Vice cop Joe Morelli fears she's in way too deep - even with the help of crime-solving, cross-dressing, bus driver Sally Sweet, and Stephanie's friend Lula riding shotgun as backup. With a notorious killer on her tail, Stephanie figures the best hideout is Ranger's secret lair...
Swing off the Jersey Turnpike and you'll be in bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's neighbourhood. You'll know it because all hell will be breaking loose. Not that she looks for trouble - it just seems to follow her. In Ten Big Ones it explodes at a deli, and when Stephanie pegs a robber as a member of a vicious Trenton gang, they peg her as dead. Vice cop Joe Morelli fears she's in way too deep - even with the help of crime-solving, cross-dressing, bus driver Sally Sweet, and Stephanie's friend Lula riding shotgun as backup. With a notorious killer on her tail, Stephanie figures the best hideout is Ranger's secret lair...
My Rating: 7/10
Whenever I am unsure of what to read or unsure of what kind of reading mood I am in, I always pick up the next Stephanie Plum novel and so far I am yet to have been disappointed.
I've never really been a big fan of the romantic element to these books even though I find it is done in a very low key way, but in this book I started to find the love triangle started to take stronger focus and this bothered me.
Stephanie always puts herself first ahead of any love interest and in this book this causes problems with her 'boyfriend' Morelli. I can see Morelli's side of it as a gang was after Stephanie and she didn't seem to care but at the same time expecting her to become a stereotypical housewife was not something I could ever picture Stephanie becoming.
On the other side of the love triangle is Ranger. I still feel like he is too much of an enigma for Stephanie to choose given she is already in a relationship with Morelli.
The bounty hunting aspect has always been my favourite part of these books because even after 10 books, Stephanie is still completely terrible at it.
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