Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After plunking down some hard earned cash on this year's installment of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, I raced home to read. What the? Is there a book return policy? What a waste. If you love Plum for the edgy writing, great wit, fantastic plot, and wonderful characters, forget Fearless Fourteen. Plum has always been more than just a breezy, silly, summer read for me. I am invested in the lives of these characters. What I got this year is slapstick, unresolved sub plots, villains with no names, subject matter bordering on the distasteful, recycled plots and my favorite characters very out of character. I even recognized things said by one character in past books, now being uttered by a different character in this book. Bizzare. No sense rehashing the pitiful storyline. What storyline? This book reads like a major hit on all those that I have grown to love. Morelli's character takes a nosedive as a belching, inept detective with a dead body in his basement and he`s more concerned about the concrete floor or playing softball with his cronies. Stephanie is no longer the gutsy, edgy woman that she was in past books but rather either now babysitting some teenager or flouncing around Trenton in some idiotic reality Bounty Hunter fiasco. Grandma Mazur, dressed in Goth - a master gamer? Lula reduced to sneaky tricks and turning into Bridezilla? Tank fainting and babbling? Mrs. Plum downing a glass of whiskey? And where the heck was Ranger? Reduced to a mere side character? Speaking of unresolved, and there is a lot unresolved.....like, whose toes were they, anyway? This book reads like a bad episode of the Three Stooges. The World of Plum in the Twilight Zone. Unrecognizable. A bad dream. I should have saved my money. Waited to borrow the library copy. Or better yet, not have read it at all. Sadly, I think it is time to say goodbye to Janet Evanovich and Plum. Gee, I wish I could get my money back on this one. Are you sure there isn't a better return policy on a really bad book?