the last three books had a slightly different plot point - “the treasure of the laz-y boyz” and the hunt of it with hidden clues and keys and stephanie and her grandmother as the main hunted since basically everyone that wanted the treasure was sure the plum women knew something.

and this slightly different focus of the story made it better.

what i enjoyed most about this book was that it wrapped this particular plot up.

it’s nice to finally see that the author knows how to actually start and finish a plot instead of just copying and pasting the same old onto every book.

what i wish would finally be a bit different is the constant back and forth between stephanie and ranger and morelli. mostly because i don’t get it.
steph keeps saying she doesn’t want marriage she doesn’t care about that and and then turns around and basically a says that she can’t have anything but fun with ranger when she has a short break with morelli because ranger doesn’t want marriage?! doesn’t make sense to me.

i also wish we could stop blowing up cars.
it was fun for the first maybe five books? but we are not approaching book 30 and it’s getting old.
i don’t want the same joke being told over and over and over again. no matter of funny it might have been, the Reputation wore it out!

also i do not want to know how much money steph would have lost ranger in real life with the amounts of cars she got from him and totaled. also how mich insurance would she have to pay after all those car totals?! would she even be able to afford a car? or is the USA so different with insurance that past experiences don’t count?



all in all?

it’s okay.
it was similarly better as the last one was compared to the (what? 10 or so?) books before #26.

i do wish stephanie would finally get to a point where she is either committing to bounty hunting or move on and find something else -which we all know she won’t! so can we just get her accepting that and actually deciding she wants to learn how to be good in the job instead of bumbling along in hopes everything works out or calling in help and muscles from every person she knows?

i also already mentioned i wish steph would finally make a decision with the guys and stick to it.

but i am guessing that the next books will continue the endless „will she won’t she“ until the series might finally come to an actual last book, but who knows how many books this series will continue to be dragged out into, with the never aging characters?