Review: Hoping for more
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2013
This short story introduces a new series and new characters from one of my favorite authors, Janet Evanovich.  I'm a fan of hers, having read all of the Stephanie Plum series as well as the Lizzie and Diesel fantasy stories. Those books are fun and funny, the perfect light reading.  This short story, however, seemed to fall, well, short.  Given the limits of the form, I still felt the characters (especially the antagonist) to be thinly drawn, and the plot and foreshadowing rather predictable.  It was funny here and there, but not as much as I had hoped for.  Nevertheless, the main character (female FBI agent) shows promise, and I liked the story well enough to plan on reading the first novel when it comes out.  I'm hoping the long form will give us more interesting characters as well as more of the trademark Evanovich humor.