Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers)

Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers)
by Janet Evanovich

Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers)
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Author: Janet Evanovich
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Book Reviews of Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers)

Book Review: Where is the "Spook"?
Summary: 2 Stars

I am giving this book 2.5 stars because I don't completely "don't like it", but it doesn't fall under "I like it" either. This is my first Stephanie Plum novel and I wonder if I should have started off with this. I've read reviews that said some Plum books were better, but I cannot know for sure until I get my hands on them. I suppose I trust these people's reviews since quite a number said that it was so, and without having read any other Plum novel, I will say that I agree with them.

Why?

Because I believe Plum Spooky had the potential to be better than it was (is). The characters were so-so -- yes, I found them sometimes funny -- but as an avid book reader I think they could have done more to impress us and entertain us. I am not sure what was missing in them but they just didn't come out as alive as they were supposed to be. And for some reason, I found myself liking the supporting cast more than the main character -- they were funnier and more clever, and for me they ended up being the ones responsible for making the story move more than Stephanie Plum did. Well at least, in this book.

There were side stories and I honestly don't know how it could have "enriched" the story in any way -- it only made Plum seem like a wimp, as Plum herself suggested in one chapter. There were loopholes throughout the story as most of the time it fails to provide particular answers to a reader's curious mind, and if it does so, the answer is forgettable (e.g. I forgot the super main reason why Wulf wanted to team-up with Munch and how they "discovered" each other, among other things... and this information, I believe, should not be forgettable if the story wanted to make an impact, for Wulf and Munch were after all, the villains). I felt that the plot's climax was worked very little upon -- somehow it seems to have been plastered onto the book without any proper build-up. Many moments Plum and Diesel were eating in Plum's apartment or Plum and Lula were having doughnuts-to-go and then the next moment happens to be the highest point of the story! -- oh really? And I felt let down. Readers should have been clenching the book for excitement but things went rather smoothly, and sorry to say, dull.

The other parts of the story that I haven't "bashed" would be the parts that could have saved the plot -- these parts were the story's potential to turn out to be a good book. However, it was not enough. I have to admit I was entertained, but only half as much as I would have been if only the author spent more time making her plot and her characters more concrete than this seemingly rushed manuscript that I just read.

Summary of Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers)

The First Full Length Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novel from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich.
Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get spooky in Trenton, New Jersey. According to legend, the Jersey Devil prowls the Pine Barrens and soars above the treetops in the dark of night. As eerie as this might seem, there are things in the Barrens that are even more frightening and dangerous. And there are monkeys. Lots of monkeys. Wulf Grimoire is a world wanderer and an opportunist who can kill without remorse and disappear like smoke. He?s chosen Martin Munch, boy genius, as his new business partner, and he?s chosen the Barrens as his new playground. Munch received his doctorate degree in quantum physics when he was twenty-two. He?s now twenty-four, and while his brain is large, his body hasn?t made it out of the boys? department at Macy?s. Anyone who says good things come in small packages hasn?t met Munch. Wulf Grimoire is looking for world domination. Martin Munch would be happy if he could just get a woman naked and tied to a tree. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has Munch on her most-wanted list for failure to appear in court. Plum is the all-American girl stuck in an uncomfortable job, succeeding on luck and tenacity. Usually she gets her man. This time she gets a monkey. She also gets a big guy named Diesel.  Diesel pops in and out of Plum?s life like birthday cake ? delicious to look at and taste, not especially healthy as a steady diet, gone by the end of the week if not sooner. He?s an über bounty hunter with special skills when it comes to tracking men and pleasing women. He?s after Grimoire, and now he?s also after Munch. And if truth were told, he wouldn?t mind setting Stephanie Plum in his crosshairs. Diesel and Plum hunt down Munch and Grimoire, following them into the Barrens, surviving cranberry bogs, the Jersey Devil, a hair-raising experience, sand in their underwear, and, of course . . . monkeys.

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