Full House

 

Shirley J.                Adult Fiction                      Divorced Mother Seeking New Hobbies

Full House by Janet Evanovich   352 pages

I really like Janet Evanovich's writing and her characters, however, I have to say that even though she has different series going simultaneously, all of her female characters are Stephanie Plum just with different names.  Now, this may be because she bases Stephanie on herself thereby putting herself in all of her stories, but, I am finding a continual pattern here in the three different series of hers I have read now, everyone is basically Stephanie and all of their love interests are the same guys Morelli and Ranger though, also with different names and in this particular story, her Ranger character is her gardner and Morelli is a polo player and instructor but so similar as to be clones.   Once you get past that, the stories are good and well worth the read.  In this series, Billie Pearce is a divorced mother of two who shares custody of her kids with her ex who has them for the summer.    She is thinking of exploring new hobbies while the kids are away and decides to learn to play polo.   Through much plotline she ends up allowing the polo instructor/love interest, Nicholas Kaharchek's weird spoiled relative DeeDee to move in.   This brings a whole bag of good and bad and some really funny dialogue and situations - DeeDee is dating a professional wrestler and fixes Billie up with one of his friends.   Later in the story the kids come home to find that Mom has now "taken up' with the polo player and who is that strange woman living in there house?   The house gets fuller as the story goes there is a double wedding, a mass bomber and loads more just like in a Stephanie Plum story, but, keep an eye on everyone even the bugs in this story!   Yes, I recommend it to teens on up.