*3.5 Wu Wei Stars*

Copy kindly received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I can't stop myself from continuing to read Evanovich's books. I've been a fan of hers since Is tarted reading the Stephanie Plum series, probably around 10 years ago.

Although this is a new series and has all new elements, Evanovich's classic writing style is still there. There's a lot of hilarity and unbelievable situations in the book.

One thing with this one that I didn't always connect with, was all the scientific terms and explanations. It was a bit much for me to take in. Its required to explain whats happening in the story but it was just a bit much for me. At the same time it didn't confuse me or anything, it was just a lot o technical info I suppose.

I find Emerson to be a fairly weird yet slightly charming and funny character. Riley is typical of Evanovich's heroine, with the strange things always happening to her and the weird chemistry/relationship with the main male characters.

I sped through this in a day, and I will probably continue the series because I can't help myself, but Evanovich's writing isn't the same for me anymore. It doesn't hold the same punch. But I would still recommend, because something always keeps drawing me back to her books and continuing whichever series it is that she's currently releasing a book for.

Another good story by Janet, well written and a good exciting plot.

The shenanigans continue in the Knight and Moon series from author Janet Evanovich. Emerson and Riley just entertain from one chapter to the next.
Review copy received from Hachette Australia via Netgalley

Laugh out Loud enjoyable read

Janet Evanovich is one of my favourite authors for some light, funny crime. This series is ok but it definitely isn't on par with Stephanie Plum or Fox & O'Hare. Still a nice easy read though which I enjoyed.

I’m a bit confused about the writing of this series. I thought the entire thing was a collaboration with Phoef Sutton but this book bills only Janet Evanovich and to be honest, it feels different from the first one. Particularly the character of Emerson Knight. And although Curious Minds, the first book in this series is listed on Phoef Sutton’s website, this one is not. So I’m not sure if it’s still a collaboration? I thought it was for 4 books but honestly, who knows.

This book is ridiculous. But I think that people who pick up books with Janet Evanovich’s name on the front cover probably expect ridiculous by now. The first one was kind of ridiculous too but tempered ridiculous, if that makes sense. I get the feeling that the tempered may be going by the wayside from now on though.

Riley is now working for Emerson, I’m not even sure what she does, he has some ridiculous name for it but basically she’s some sort of assistant. I guess he felt bad for her considering he basically cost her her job and he has buckets of money so he can afford to employ her. I guess she’s getting used to Knight because she doesn’t really seem to bat an eye when a Monk turns up and tells Knight that the island he was living on in the South Pacific is just….gone.

I’m not American so I don’t know anything about Teddy Roosevelt or the Rough Riders but plugging it into google tells me that they were an actual thing and Janet Evanovich turns them into a modern day group of villains here doing all sorts of stuff that I can’t really explain but it involves Yellowstone National Park, lava/magma and the potential to make the entire world go BOOM.

There were some things I did like – I love an adventure so part of this book did feel like one big adventure with camping and chasing bad guys and all that sort of thing. And because Emerson is stinking rich, and I do mean utterly stinking rich, they can do a lot of it in style with new cars, private planes, etc. I’m a girl who likes my creature comforts so I’m totally on board with that sort of thing. They are unusual characters so a lot of the time they go about things in unusual ways. Sometimes that pays off, sometimes it doesn’t.

What I didn’t like? The extras, including the monk guy and Emerson’s creepy cousin, both of whom smacked of Janet Evanovich’s patented “comedy sidekicks for the LOLs”. I just don’t think that they’re entirely necessary on board for the whole thing and didn’t really add anything to the plot or provide any pivotal moments. Emerson’s character was inconsistent throughout this book and in comparison to the last book (the comment about he might be a horn dog, for instance, read very strange). Perhaps this is a result of the fact that this one doesn’t seem to have been co-written, perhaps it’s being chalked up to “character evolution”, I don’t know. It just read quite jarring. I also really disliked the way the book ended, which was quite abruptly and on a snappy one-liner which gave no resolution to something promised earlier on in the story and just felt really unexpected, like I was left annoyingly hanging. And I just know the next book will pick up some time in the future and either never mention what should’ve happened, or gloss over it.

This one was middle of the road for me. A quick read that was entertaining in parts but it had a few things that I struggled with.

5/10