Seven Up by Janet Evanovich - Book Review

Eddie de Chooch is a serial villain who misses a court date. Stephanie Plum is a modern day New York bounty hunter. $5,000 will drop into her bank account if she can bring him to court and that shouldn't be so difficult, Eddie is in his seventies after all. How hard could that be? But how old do you have to be to fire a gun, something that Eddie is mighty fond of doing and he is not too particular who gets in the way.

Seven Up, so called because this is the seventh Stephanie Plum mystery, is a sassy quick paced tale, though it did kind of drag somewhere in the middle. It is crammed with some interesting characters some of whom are carried over from previous tales, such as Bob the dog who eats everything and anything and can and will, vomit on demand.

There is quite a bit of humour here, and yes I did laugh out loud several times, big plus point, though some of it is of the kind that used to be known as toilet humour. Think people messing their pants, and far worse, and you get the idea.

Stephanie's grandmother is my favourite character, I didn't care for any of the men in the story much, but granny is a feisty old girl who fancies all the men, especially Eddie himself, and she dresses to match, though he has problems in the moving parts region, something that granny is happy to tell everyone about in great detail, though when she is introduced to the thrills of riding on Stephanie's Harley Davidson, well things start to get really exciting, for granny that is.

This book is easy to get into and for the most part it is a real page turner but I suspect it will also be quickly forgotten, Granny excepted of course. Seven Up is a lightweight laugh that just might cheer you up. Certainly worth thinking about.

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