Look alive twenty-five

311 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2018

ISBN:: 978-0-399-17922-8
OCLC Number:: 1049577570

(1 review)

"Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum"--

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jokususa reviewed Look alive twenty-five by Janet Evanovich (A Stephanie Plum Novel -- 25)

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3 stars

Enjoyed the side characters more than usual, also the final takedown of the criminal.

While I like Wulf more than Diesel, I would've preferred both of them to stay out of the main series. The paranormal elements take away from the part I thought was hilarious - that as wacky as things get, it's still in the category "could have happened". (of course, it's not all of this could have possibly happened to one person, but still.) Besides, they don't add to the story that much.

Also I still wish the series would've stayed in the time period 1990's -early 2000. The original premise of Stephanie working her way to catch criminals by tenacity and dumb luck worked better without drones and iphones. Since she's not a tech person for all we know, now she has to rely on Ranger half of the time. Other than it makes Stephanie look …

Enjoyed the side characters more than usual, also the final takedown of the criminal.

While I like Wulf more than Diesel, I would've preferred both of them to stay out of the main series. The paranormal elements take away from the part I thought was hilarious - that as wacky as things get, it's still in the category "could have happened". (of course, it's not all of this could have possibly happened to one person, but still.) Besides, they don't add to the story that much.

Also I still wish the series would've stayed in the time period 1990's -early 2000. The original premise of Stephanie working her way to catch criminals by tenacity and dumb luck worked better without drones and iphones. Since she's not a tech person for all we know, now she has to rely on Ranger half of the time. Other than it makes Stephanie look more useless, I don't mind - I'm in the minority of the readers that doesn't want Stephanie to decide which man she wants. I mean it would probably be good for her, but I would be disappointed either way. So this book is still ok for me in that department.

This isn't a favorite in the series, but I'm going to continue either way. Gotta find out how's the Bond agency going to continue after this.

Subjects

Missing persons
Women detectives
Women bounty hunters
Fiction

Places

Trenton (N.J.)