Book Review -- To the Nines, Janet Evanovich

Title - To the Nines
Author - Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum Series

These books have me howling with laughter. As you can tell from the title, this is the 9th book in the series. Each book adds new characters along with some of the main ones picked up along the way in the earlier books.

The main character is Stephanie Plum, full time bounty hunter (of sorts). Stephanie works for her cousin Vinnie's bail bond company, and is sent out on jobs to bring back people who have failed to keep to their bail conditions and have gone AWOL.  Her task is to find them, bring them back to Vinnie so he gets paid.

Things don't always go to plan, and along with her side kick, a large black woman named Lula, who always dresses in spandex, she gets into all sorts of scrapes. Her mother and father hate her doing this job and wish she would go and work in the button factory like her friend. In this book she is hired to find Samuel Singh, an illegal immigrant. Whilst looking for him she gets shot at on a regular basis, and Hunter one of the other bounty hunters, who is a very mysterious but sexy character, posts bodyguards on her. Unfortunately each one suffers an accident of sorts, thanks to the scrapes that Stephanie and Lula get themselves into. This story takes them to Las Vegas in search of Singh.

There are many LOL moments which involve Stephanie, Lula, Connie from the office, Grandma Mazur and the rest of the family. These are really well written books and if you haven't read one of her books before, I definately recommend you read this series. They are light hearted, fun and full of content and very easy to read.

I give this book 4/5.

 It would have got 5 but I think some of the other books in the series have slightly better story lines.

So many parcels through the post today! How exciting.

How many books have you ever received through the post in one day? Today I had 11 plus one I picked up as a "Wild release" from Book Crossing, where someone had left it for me to find in a Tea shop! This was by Gervase Phinn, called The other side of the Dale. It is based on the tales of Gervase Phinn when he was a school inspector and travelled around the rural villages of Yorkshire. It's a lovely series of books to read. Very descriptive and highly amusing because of the things children say. I thoroughly recommend them.

My first book through the post was a kind gift from a fellow blogger So many books, so little time. It was Katie Fforde "Wedding Season", which she sent to me to read before I read "Love Letters".

I then had a book I had done as a swap on Read it swap it, which was Private by James Patterson. I love his books and find them quick easy reads.

Then I had so many other parcels to open. I entered a UK sweepstake on BookCrossing, where everyone is given the name of a person to send a book to as a winner.The winner is sent another persons name as a decoy. The winner then gets lots of books through the door. Well I was thrilled to be that winner! Amongst my books received today were:-

• Full Tilt, by Janet Evanovich. I love her Stephanie Plum books so I'm looking forward to read this.
• Jumper, Griffins story by Steven Gould, which has been made into a film.
• Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt, about a dog belonging to Winston Churchill.
• The Children of Men by PD James.
• The Snow Geese by William Fiennes, about a man who travels the world following the path of the snow geese. I am excited about that one.
• Do Ants have arseholes? A funny book with pointless questions in, like "Why don't sheep shrink in the rain" Sounds very amusing
• Night by Elie Wiesel, about the holocaust.
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore, which has also had a film made based on the book.
•  Finally the Little Marmalade cat book. A little read all about cats, which came with a lovely cat book mark. I am a big cat lover, so this again suits me down to the ground.

It was as if some of these people knew me personally as the books a lot of them chose were just the books I myself would choose to read.