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Saturday 26 January 2013

Review: THREE TO GET DEADLY

Three To Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
Book 3 of the Stephanie Plum series
Narrated by CJ Critt
Format: audiobook
Genre: crime fiction chicklit

About Three To Get Deadly:
A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam - and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn't end up being her last...
Source: Info in the About Three To Get Deadly was taken from at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6854.Three_to_Get_Deadly on 15/07/2012.

Narrative Evaluation:
I actually had to re-borrow this audiobook because I got irritated when I first listened to it and stopped listening about three quarters into the book. I know that Stephanie's stupidity is suppose to be part of her character and part of her charm, but its starting to get on my nerves. Then after a few months, I forgot my annoyance and re-borrowed this book. And I enjoyed listening to it again! I don't know whether I was just being cranky the first time around and being mellow the second time around that resulted in me enjoying it now, but, I laughed out loud at Stephanie's and Lola's antics again. Not once, not twice, but many times as I listened along. That considerably increased the rating for this book. I think the humour between the pages is this book's best feature. While the worst is the cover art. If I hadn't read this series before I would never in a million years pick this book up based on the cover alone! But at the end of it, I enjoyed this book and would continue to read more books in this series. I think I am on my way to becoming a die hard fan of Stephanie Plum!

Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 3.5
Character development = 4.5
Story itself = 3.5
Ending = 4
World building = 4.5
Cover art = 1
Pace = N/A (9 discs)
Plot = 3.5
Narrator = 4

Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5 cherries


Thank you to RCT Library for letting me borrow this audiobook!!

FTC Disclosure:
This audiobook was borrowed from the library. No money received for this review.

3 comments:

Blodeuedd said...

Wow...one of the ugliest covers I have ever seen

Cherry said...

Blodeuedd - Hear! Hear!

Can't agree with you more :)

Melissa (My World...in words and pages) said...

So glad you ended up enjoying it on the second try. I've got the first book and do want to give it a try one day. :) Thank you!

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