Nothing to Lose -- Alex Flinn High Five -- Janet Evanovich

Two books that were just more of the same.

I read the newest Alex Flinn book, Nothing to Lose a little while ago. It was good, but honestly, how many domestic abuse books can one person write? (Actually, she's only written two that I know of; Breathing Underwater is the other one. Breaking Point looks completely different—and really good). It isn't that they're bad books—they're well written, plotted, etc. But they're somehow still the same. It's weird that Chris Crutcher can write book after book, all of them dealing in some way with some form of abuse, and every single one of them is different and wonderfully good.

I did like the stuff about carnival folk and the way they create family. I'll have to read Geek Love soon.

The fifth Stephanie Plum book, High Five, was just more of the same. More of the funny, crazy, totally entertaining same. I was not happy to see that Ramirez made a comeback. Ick.