To the Nines by Janet Evanovich (2003, Hardcover)

My what a pleasure this book was. After being thoroughly dissapointed in the last few in this series I was almost ready to write it off... but J.E. had this one come out 2 days BEFORE my birthday so I figured it was a sign LOL
Anyhoo my review. It was Fantastic!!! and keeping in mind that I was ready to be letdown, you can imagine my elation. First of all Stephanie (IMO) has matured in the relationship department (if I say more than that it will give away to much of the anticipation of seeing who she is with now) Lula is "HELL"-Arious. I found that I was laughing quite a bit, chuckling over the ordeals that Stephanie customarily find herself in. I can always tell when a book is good to me, by how often I am willing to part from it. Everytime I went somewhere I had this book in tow LOL ie; Lunch, Restroom, Browsing Bookstores, Get my hair done, while waiting at the Gas Stations or Restaurants etc.

As someone mentioned before J.E. let go of some of the "staple" incidents with Stephanie and some of the "bizarre" characters that she tends to borrow from previous books are also missing... which I'm happy to say is probably why this one was so good. It was almost like a START UP to the series.

You do get to see Stephanie's family and Joe's family <---- BOY was that a hoot!! their trip to Vegas was hysterical and the hunt for the killer was kind of non-climatic in the end, instead of the Cars getting demolished throughout the book you get Rangers Army of Mighty Men having their very own mishaps while shadowing Stephanie.

I say if you like this series it is worth the price for the Hardcover... I know a lot of my friends have started just waiting for the paperbacks to be released cuz they didn't feel it was worth it. Not so with this one.

Respectfully Reviewed