Love Overboard by Janet Evanovich

Published by Thorndike Press (first published January 1st 1989) more details...

ISBN: 0786276681 (ISBN13: 9780786276684)
Original Title: Ivan Takes a Wife (1989)
Rating: 2stars

Synposis:
Sinfully handsome schooner captain Ivan Rasmussen deserved to be called Ivan the Terrible, Stephanie Lowe decided. First he’d sold her a haunted house, and now he was laughing at her Calamity Jane cooking! She’d only agreed to work one voyage of his Maine coastal cruise in exchange for the house repairs promised by her cousin, who’d run off to marry a plumber. When the brazen Ivan, descendant of a pirate, swept her into his arms during a moonlight rendezvous, Stephanie knew how it felt to be a pirate’s treasure! Ivan teased her, flirted with her, and made her feel cherished as no one ever had, but when would her sexy scoundrel deliver the ravishing he promised? Ivan had expected a shipboard romance, a fling on the ocean that ended at the dock, but every time he kissed Stephanie, he thought of marriage, hearth, and home. Could he seduce his ladylove with the sweet mysteries of passion and put her private ghosts to rest?

My Review:

Love Overboard is a fluffy love story. The romance between Ivan and Stephanie is sweet. Ivan is not as terrible as she once thinks. In fact, he just a dangerous type of sexy. For Ivan, Stephanie is just what he didn’t know he was looking for. Of course, this story ends with the happy ending but in the course of getting to that ending a lot of crazy events happen. It didn’t hold my attention the whole way through but it is a quick read. Oh and no dog in this one. If you are a Janet Evanovich reader you know why I mention this.

 

Challenges:

2012 TBR Challenge

2012 Mixing It Up Challenge

2012 Romance Reading Challenge

Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich

hardcover pgs.166

rating 4stars

Plum Lucky is a between-the-numbers book.  These books could be considered part of the Plum series or a series on their own. It would be book 14 in the Plum series (if listed in order) and book 3 in the between-the-number series.

Stephanie is driving with Lula when they spot Grandma Mazur with a duffel bag fighting a little person who resembles a leprechaun. In the morning, hottie Diesel shows up at Stephanie’s looking for a place to crash while he looking for a skip. While Stephanie is contemplate what she is going to do with Diesel her mother calls to enlist her to find Grandma Mazur.

On a hunch, Stephanie figures grandma went to Atlantic City to spend a little of her Social Security check. She stops at the bonds office to inform them of where she is about to go so of course Lula and Connie come along.

Sure enough, Grandma Mazur is at Daffy Casino in Atlantic City. Only she is not spending money for her Social Security check but money from the duffel bag. That’s right. The duffel bag was filled with money and, since this is a Stephanie Plum book, trouble.’

With a cast of characters that include Stephanie, Lula, Connie, Grandma Mazur, Diesel, mobster Lou Delvina, Snuggy (the lucky unlucky leprechaun), and Doug the horse Plum Lucky doesn’t crap out.

*rating factors - fun, fast paced, and short pages. One to two day read

Challenges:
2012 50 State Reading Challenge (New Jersey)
Soundtrack Challenge: Dirty Dancing
2012 TBR Challenge
Stephanie Plum Series