This Stephanie Plum novel was pretty intense -- and yet still managed to be funny.
13. Explosive Eighteen, by Janet Evanovich
This Stephanie Plum was kind of meh, and I had trouble telling it apart from Hard Eight, which I was reading at the same time (one at home, and one at work -- memo to self: if you're going to read two books at once, make sure they have different characters). I kept getting the plotlines mixed up. Also, the interesting stuff (Stephanie's Hawaiian vacation) was glossed over and only talked about in retrospect.
14. Notorious Nineteen, by Janet Evanovich
This one had an interesting plot (actually, several interesting plots). There was no personal growth for Stephanie or any other character, but the book was still entertaining.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
