Twelve Sharp

Woohoo!! I actually gave myself permission to read a book and OMG it was such a wonderful and relaxing experience.

I'm not sure if it was the length of time it's been since I read a book without worrying about 40 things at once or if Twelve Sharp was just that good.

I read somewhere (Bad Cindy for not tracking it down) that nothing was resolved at the end of this story. That the characters are all still the same.

I would argue that there was some moments of relationship growth going on and my interpretation of certain events has me believing that Stephanie Plum got the message loud and clear from the men in her life.

Also, for the first time in a few books this one gave me belly laughs a couple of times. It was slow to start but then it got funny.

I don't like to do summaries of these kinds of books because I figure if you've followed the Plum series this far then you like going in knowing next to nothing. At least, I do. That way, I have no weird expectations.

There were plot points that I found super obvious although I had the bad guy figured out all wrong and hey, that's good stuff - for me. Hate to think I'm all that.

Since I found her last book very boring I am happy to say that this one had more pep and some truly funny moments. Oh and some yummmm moments too. So, a solid B-.

Whoops, I'm about to go off topic but it's not really.

You know how J.K. Rowling and LKH say that they know how many books are in their series? (Okay, LKH claims to know there are 7 books in Merry Gentry's series - I figure if they are still flying off the shelves, she'll find a reason to continue on). Rowling being the billionaire (?) can just sit back and relax now but I wonder if her series hadn't been such a money maker but made her a decent living if there would be more books forth coming.

Anyways, I'm wondering if Evanovich has any plans to end this series or if it is never ending. I mean, if Sue Grafton can have a series as long as the alphabet then I guess anything goes.

I have picked up another book and it's sucked me in big time. Hopefully I will give myself permission to just sit and read.

The 'other' house is now listed *trumpets blare* but, I think I could spend 7 days straight in our new kitchen just scrubbing everything with bleach.

I won't even bring up the dogs room. *gag*

Or will I?

Cody, the poor bugger, had his urinary tract infection come roaring back but at least we were keeping an eye on it and got him back on antibiotics. It's just that now the basement has a bad fishy odor which means I need to get out the serious chems and get the Little Green Machine out. That alone will take some power scrubbing but it needs to be done. Luckily it's this really cheap carpet that has no pile to it and we don't care it I bleach out the colour or anything. So I do want to get that accomplished now that I have actually found the LGM.

Wow, didn't I just say I wasn't going to bring it up?

I'm such a liar.