by Janet Evanovich"The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't know what it's really about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glop of jelly on your best t-shirt."
This first paragraph grabbed me to the point that I shelled out $7.99 plus tax at the corner store at my hotel so that I'd have something to read on the plane ride home. Over the next few pages, I got disappointed. It was obviously another mass market paperback bestsller. Then there came a point where I just couldn't stop reading it. Forget my honeymoon, I was hooked.
Our heroine (which I kept saying to my husband when I had to share parts of the novel with him, and of which I had to keep reminding him if only for my sanity, was not in reference to a drug but to a character in the book) Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter in New Jersey who doesn't carry a gun and who has two extremely sexy young men waiting in the wings while she bumbles around fighting crime and stuffing her face with jelly doughnuts.
I loved it and I'm not ashamed to say it. In fact, I'm probably going to be busy for awhile reading all nine Stephanie Plum novels that come before this one. And don't be surprised if you find me at Costco with my head shoved in Eleven on Top while I follow my husband around.
Time to read cover to cover: 2 days
General consensus: Addictive junk food for the brain.
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