Evanovich is starting to renew my
faith in her!
Fiction – Mystery – Urban Fantasy
299 pages
Publication Date: January 1st 2012
Lizzy & Diesel #2
The Luxria Stone, believed to
contain the power of lust, surfaces with the murder of English professor
Gilbert Reedy, and Diesel and Lizzy are hot on its trail. Racing against Wulf and a new mysterious
player to get to the stone first Lizzy and Diesel follow clues from a book of
nineteenth-century sonnets in Prof. Reedy’s collection guiding them through
historic Boston. Pilfering churches,
historic residences, creating public disturbances and ultimately navigating
their way through creepy catacombs Lizzy and Diesel’s chaotic and outlandish
journey creates unexpected and high cost results for more than one person.
It was a bit of a slow start and
the writing was a little choppy, but this novel was a marked improvement on Wicked Appetite, with a more thought out
plot line and better pacing of action and suspense. My buy in was a lot higher this time, meaning
I actually cared somewhat about what happened.
I felt more connected to the characters and found the sequence of events
able to hold my attention. Wulf is
starting to become a more fleshed out character and I enjoyed the different
dynamic in the group of characters when a new more potent villain was
introduced. Over all I am much happier
and the Lizzy & Diesel series has won a sort of reprieve. With some reservation I plan on reading the
next book- with tempered hopes of it improving even more- instead of abandoning
the series like I planned if I didn’t see enough progress.
ISBN 0345527771
(ISBN13: 9780345527776)
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