Audiobook - Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
>> Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich (Audio)
Genre: Mystery/Humor
Series: #12 in the Stephanie Plum series
Publication Date: 2006
Read by: Lorelei King
Challenges: Support Your Local Library #23
Source: Library
The Short Version:
Stephanie’s madcap adventures take a bit of a dark turn when a little girl is kidnapped, but there’s still enough craziness for plenty of laugh out loud moments.
Why I Read It:
It was Road Trip to Ashland Weekend. We make a couple of trips a year (for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and winery visits) and at least one trip each year includes listening to the next Stephanie Plum book on our list.
The Book:
It’s the typical Stephanie Plum stuff. She chases down people for her cousin’s bail bond agency. Sometimes this happens more successfully than others and usually with something crazy happening along the way. She continues to go back and forth between Ranger and Morelli with never a resolution to that triangle. She drives her mother crazy and her grandmother to the latest viewing at the Funeral Home.
This time around there is a bit of a dark side to the zaniness. Ranger’s 10 year old daughter has been kidnapped and the police and FBI suspect Ranger. Stephanie helps Ranger and of course ends up in danger herself. Oh and along the way there’s a point where Stephanie, Ranger and Joe are all staying at Stephanie’s apartment.
My Thoughts:
This series makes great road trip books for us. The Hubster enjoys listening to lighter stuff with plenty of humor when he’s driving and the length of the Stephanie Plum books generally work well for the timing of our drive to Ashland and back home. I’ve read the books through #13 so the audios have been re-reads for me and he finds them entertaining. After #13, I’ve stopped reading the books and will just continue with the audio versions because I do enjoy Lorelei King’s reading.
The thing I enjoyed about this one is that some of the ever growing cast of regulars is absent or only briefly mentioned. They’re all fun characters, but they don’t need to all be in every book. A bit of a break from Stephanie’s sister and her family was nice.
Nevertheless, some of the regulars are there and as usual most of the laughs come via Lula and Grandma Mazur.
The series is losing a bit of it’s luster for me and I no longer anticipate and get on the library waiting list for the next release, but it still makes for fun long boring drive listening and is something that keeps me (and The Hubster) entertained.
Rating 3/5
No stars – I couldn’t even finish it
1 star – I didn’t like it but I managed to finish it.
2 stars – It was OK. Not good, but seriously just OK.
4 stars – I really liked it. I really think you might like it too.
5 stars – It was amazing. I’d recommend this to just about anyone.
2 comments:
I stopped reading this series somewhere around #8 or #9. Not sure exactly, but it was for the same reasons you mention. Just not quite as spell-binding and entertaining as the earlier books. Maybe, now that enough time has passed, I can pick up where I left off. Audio books seem like a good alternative to the written version, especially if you say the reader is good. That's key, don't you think? I just finished World Without End (read by John Lee), which was FANTASTIC!
Les: For us the series lends itself well to these kinds of road tirps. Light, a bit of humor and nothing complicated that requires much concentration. The narrator changed partway through the series, but we've gotten used to the current narrator and like her.
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