I started to re-read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, starting with One For The Money, and I just couldn't do it. I enjoyed the series when I originally read them about twenty years ago, but this time around, I just can't. The messes Stephanie gets into as a bounty hunter or skip tracer, the waffling between the two attractive men in her life, the old junky car, no, I just can't. How many times can she get hit over the head before her brain turns to mush? How much pasta can she eat before the cupcake turns into a muffin top? The feral giraffe named Kevin roaming the streets of Trenton, New Jersey was a "jump the shark" moment for me even years ago. I might try one more that I recall as pretty funny before I send the rest of them to the library donation pile and free up some space on my library shelves.
So I decided to try one of the Lizzy and Diesel books, Wicked Appetite, to see how that series was. The premise is that Lizzy is a baker of wickedly delicious cupcakes in a Salem, Massachusetts, bakery. Two men pop up in her life, dark, vampirish Wulf, and beach bum Diesel. They and Lizzy are all Unmentionables, people with special abilities. The two men are seeking one of the seven stones that supposedly control the seven deadly sins. In this case, the sin is gluttony. Lizzy ends up working with Diesel to try to find the pieces of the stone before Wulf can find them and therefore the stone and achieve his desire of creating Hell on earth. I have to say I got tired of this one pretty fast--the shtick stops working and I just get tired of it. Grade: D.
I tried another Lizzy and Diesel book, Wicked Business, but that one's a "nope", too. So all the Evanovich books are in the bin to donate to the library--maybe someone will like them more than I do.
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