The Rocky Road to Romance
by Janet Evanovich
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Author: Janet EvanovichEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-31
ISBN: 0060598891
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Harper
Book Reviews of The Rocky Road to Romance
Book Review: A Stephanie Plum prequel (not in a good way)
Summary: 2 Stars
I really liked the first six Stephanie Plum novels. After that I thought she started repeating herself too much. It was like she had three jokes and she retold them in every single book. When she started editing and reissuing her old romances, I tried the first one and didn't read the first five pages. It was awful. Anyway, I'm on vacation just now and was looking for some light vacation reading and didn't have much choice since I couldn't find a bookstore here, but the local K-Mart had Rocky Road to Romance, so I thought I'd give it a try. It is better than that first romance. But it's like a Stephanie Plum prequel. In Stephanie Plum there is a person named Mary Lou Resnick. In this book there's a person named Mary Lou Resnick. Stephanie has a big, stupid dog that eats everything in sight and can't be left alone and is named Bob. In this book there is a big, stupid dog that eats everything in sight and can't be left alone and it is named Bob. With all the names available in the world, if she's only got two dogs in all her books, couldn't she have given them different names?
But here's what bugged me the most. Janet seems to love putting magic into her books (although she doesn't label it magic). In the Stephanie Plum books, Ranger can get into her apartment at will and she can never catch him doing it. Her apartment is locked, there is a safety chain on, she sometimes piles pans or dishes by the door so that if it opens they will make a clatter, once she bought an alarm device that would buzz if the door was opened. Ranger always gets past these impedimenta totally silently. One supposes he must apparate. I guess this is meant to be mildly amusing and the books are not meant to be taken seriously. Okay.
Well in Rocky Road we have similar instances of magic. At one point in the book, the two main characters split up to take their own cars over to the heroine's house. The hero is going to stop off for takeout food and then join her. But on the way, he stops by the pound and adopts a dog (Bob). Then he notices that Bob is too big for his sports car, so he runs by the Ford dealership and buys a new SUV. Then he continues on to the heroine's house and arrives there at about the same time that she does. Now if this were Star Trek they would explain that there was a disturbance in the space-time continuum which permitted this seeming incongruity. If it were Harry Potter, perhaps Steve could have used a time turner. But Janet doesn't bother to explain how Steve performed his magic. I live in a medium-sized city and from my house the drive to the pound takes about forty minutes. Steve lives in Washington, D.C. and the drive is apparently instantaneous. And let's don't even start thinking about the paperwork. And after that he goes and buys a new car. The last time I bought a new car, I wandered the lot a bit. I sat in some cars; I took a couple of test drives; I asked if they had it in a different color. Steve walks onto the lot and says, "I'll take that one." And let's don't even start thinking about the paperwork.
So anyway, I know this was meant to be light and amusing and I wasn't supposed to take it seriously, but I just finished reading Jennifer Crusie's book, Charlie All Night, which, coincidentally was also about a radio station with lots of quirky characters, but that book was a lot more amusing and had at least some traces of verisimilitude, so I'm recommending that one instead.
Summary of The Rocky Road to Romance
Her tall, dark, and deliciously dangerous boss . . .
When the delightful, daffy Dog Lady of station WZZZ offered to take on the temporary job of traffic reporter, Steve Crow tried to think of reasons to turn Daisy Adams down. Perhaps he knew that sharing the close quarters of a car with her for hours would give the handsome program director no room to resist her quirky charms. He'd always favored low-slung sportscars and high-heeled women, but that was before he fell for a free spirit who caught crooks by accident, loved old people and pets, and had just too many jobs!
Loving Daisy turned Steve's life upside down, especially once he adopted Bob, a huge dog masquerading as a couch potato. But was Daisy finally ready to play for keeps?
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