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November 28, 2006
"Motor Mouth" by Janet Evanovich
Motor Mouth is the second in Janet Evanovich’s relatively new series (first book was Metro Girl) about mechanic Alexandra “Barney” Barnaby and NASCAR driver Sam Hooker. Although I really enjoyed Metro Girl and was glad to see Evanovich writing another fun series, Motor Mouth seems to fall flat. It didn’t have the laugh out loud dialogue fans enjoy with her Stephanie Plum series and the story just seemed to have too many dead bodies, bad guys and stops for junk food. Fans of NASCAR may enjoy the book more; I was lost in some of the trade specific lingo. It is nice to see a heroine who is well trained and competent at her job (Barney has worked on cars her whole life and has an engineering degree, unlike Stephanie Plum who sort of fell into being a bounty hunter and has never been very good at it) and for the leads (Barney and Hooker) to realize they are lousy detectives, even though they refuse to turn the sleuthing over to the police or NASCAR officials (part of the story relates to mechanical tinkering that constitutes cheating in the race world).
ISBN: 0060584033
Pam, reserves
Posted by jnardine at November 28, 2006 08:59 AM