Graham G. (Foucault) reviewed on 6/16/2007 + 27 more book reviews

Just finished reading this.

I thought that this book was better and funnier than One for the Money. After reading the first book, I was not sure I wanted to continue. Sure, the book was a quick, undemanding read, but I wasn't sure that was enough to engage me for a long series. Now I'm hooked!

While still completely inept as a bounty-hunter, Stephanie is getting better. Cop (and childhood fondler) Joe Morelli is back, as is Ranger (although his involvement is much less in this book than the first). Lula the hooker is back, this time as a filing-clerk, turned "assistant bounty-hunter", and her brief scene is quite hilarious. Stephanie's batty Grandma Mazur is more involved in this story too, and that's a great thing. All in all, we're getting to know the characters much better, and that's a really good thing in a series.

There is some quite graphic violence described, and just like the first book, Stephanie is dealing with a dangerous psychopath. But even the violence has its funny side. Like a hilarious scene with a severed finger; two pages with the phrase "give the finger" sprinkled liberally throughout, and you're just waiting for that snappy one-liner, but it doesn't come - and I think that was both quite deliberate, and quite laudable!

I'm looking forward to Three to Get Deadly

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