I don't know why I keep reading this series. I loved it when it first started, but now, at 16 books strong (they're bestsellers), I am getting tired of the SAMENESS of them all.

Stephanie Plum is crappy at her job as a bonds agent. She usually finds of her targets, often captures them with the help of Ranger, a hot security consultant, and even more regularly ends up in some kind of embarrassing escapade. She is torn between Joe Morelli, her cop boyfriend, and super-sexy mystery man Ranger. She wrecks one or two cars.

This happens in EVERY BOOK.

At some point, it would be nice if Stephanie Plum grew up and matured. Or changed. Or if her hamster even died. I'm very against animal cruelty, but come on, how long do hamsters live, anyway?

The Stephanie Plum books evidently happen in some kind of weird alternative world in which time moves, but never forward or backward. It just kind of goes, and no one ever ages. Or learns from their mistakes.

Or hires a copyeditor, I guess, given that these books are beginning to feel as though they're written in a hurry, what with all the typos and poor writing. Seriously, in every book, there are at least 5 instances of someone "cutting their eyes" at another person.

These are great books to read if there's nothing else at the library. At the very least, it will make time pass. Which is more than what happens in the actual books.