The Grand Finale

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a revised, repackaged novel sure to please her many fans. She writes "high speed comic mayhem" (Detroit Free Press); she's "a blast of fresh air" (Washington Post); "side-splitting funny" (Publishers Weekly) and "a winner" (Glamour). In other words, she's Janet Evanovich.

Berry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when she climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn't prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window, or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer's pizza and won his heart! But was there room in her chaotic schedule for a risk-taking inventor with dreams? She took classes, delivered pizzas, and cared for three eccentric old ladies she rescued from the train station. But Jake thrived on a challenge, and he could be very inventive. Could he teach her there was time to make butterscotch pudding and let herself be loved?

What Customers Say About The Grand Finale:

Just couldn't put it down. I easily read this book in one day. The Grand Finale is probably my favorite of her romance novels. It had me laughing the whole time.

I always look forward to the next read. As always, with Evanovich, the humor is wonderful. This book isn't a "Stephanie" but there is only one of her.

I can not help laughing out loud when I read any of Janet Evanovich books.

I thought that the book's value was mostly to be found in exploring the idea of trying to be kind to others, and how that affects how you organize your life. The book's story primarily depends on two plot devices: an attractive man, Jake Sawyer, who is ready to settle down with a woman he just met, and continuing failures to communicate between Berry and Jake. Fans of Stephanie Plum will see parallels between that wonderful, goofy character and pizza-store owner and college student, Berry Knudsen. I also enjoyed comparing Berry and Stephanie to better understand the brilliance of Ms. but will be disappointed that they lack the total daffiness of Grandma Mazur's fixations. If you have a choice between reading the romance, The Grand Finale, and re-reading a favorite Plum, go ahead and stick in your thumb and pull out the Plum.

but the book quickly runs downhill from there. The former device works much better than the latter, which comes across as strained and more than a little unrealistic. Then you'll have a grand finale to your evening, rather than the experience of reading a book about a grand finale. The familiar pratfalls are here, but they come a bit too fast and too frequently to be continually funny. Evanovich's writing about Stephanie Plum. that isn't totally satisfying.The opening of The Grand Finale is strong.

Fans of Grandma Mazur will enjoy the plot complications of having three somewhat similar characters in the story.

I am on page 80 but I am not even sure I am going to bother finishing it. It is almost like someone other than Janet Evanovich wrote it. I have read two other of Janet Evanovich's romance novels and all of the Stephanie Plum that are out (17, I think.and am anxiously waiting for the Finger Lickin Fifteen due in June). Grand Finale is a romance novel and I am finding it silly and boring.