the positive:
- the books finally arrived in this century! there are ipads and macbooks and drones.
wow! who knew the author knew there is anything after the 1990?

the usual:
- everyone behaves utterly stupid and ridiculous at all times
- stephanie is accident prone as usual
- there is yet another fire (this time a building not a car so i guess that’s something)
- stephanie still can’t get her act together and decide if she wants ranger or the cop.
- steph can still only constantly complain about her job (or jobs in this case since she not only sucks at bounty hunting in this book she is also “working” in a dinner that was taken over by vinnie)

- the author still finds it necessary to over explain and re introduce every single person in the worst ways possible.
but let’s be real here.
if a book is the 25th on a series und your staring with that one? you don’t need introductions to characters you already decided you just want to be thrown into a story you are missing parts from. so could we please just stop with reintroducing and describing every single freaking character in every book? each book could be 100 pages shorter if those descriptions would be left out!!

the horrible:
- everything is the same
the author basically copies and pastes at least half the books. the only noticeable differences in this one is the pretty constant mentioning of apple products that is especially noticeable in the second half of the book. maybe the author hoped to get a sponsorship? she certainly name dropped enough products.

- the utterly ridiculousness of the “crime mystery” in this book.
now this series is utterly stupid to begin with but it’s starting to get to the point where is actually questionable of the author is aware that’s she’s not writing something with supernatural elements.

or maybe she does.
which would explain why the heck at book 25 the hamster is still alive, the grandma is still the liveliest of the entire plum bunch and nobody ever seems to die or be able to make actual real life choices! maybe they are in some type of timeloop?

- the constant name calling, over describing of skin colors and unnecessary mentions of mental health problems that are more treated as jokes than actual health problems!
honestly that is one of the most grating things in this book! mental health is not a joke people! can we just get over that and remember that we wouldn’t try and make fun of for example cancer patients?!

- how old is stephanie?!
she has to be at least nearing fourty now right?!
35?
time stopped for her somewhere in the early 30 i think but the books kept on going.


- also is america really that brutal and utterly reckless with their guns?
everyone just had them constantly with them and waving them around as if that’s normal?

i am not sure if those sections where supposed to be funny or realistic but i don’t find either very entertaining!



to be honest the only reason i keep trying and reading those books is that i keep thinking it can’t get any worse. and i got this far. i can’t quit a series 25 books in!

but after every book i just... i don’t get it how they can still be published?
they keep getting worse and worse and i keep hoping it might finally get better.
that stephanie finally finds a job she likes enough to actually try being half way decent at it or at least makes enough money for her to survive on.

the author keeps proving me wrong.
but at some point rock bottom has to be reached right?!
or hopefully someday in the very foreseeable future an actual ending of this train wreck of a series?!