CHARGE (What is the author trying to say?): Can the popular Stephanie Plum franchise go stale?
fACTS: Stephanie Plum embarks on her thirtieth adventure and frankly, it’s not much different from her prior twenty-nine. Freaks will skip out on their bonds and elude capture, houses are firebombed, cars are wrecked, and tension erupts over Ranger and Morelli. What’s different about this episode? It ends with a cliffhanger. One last installment will be required to put Stephanie out of her misery!
VERDICT (Was the author successful?): Guilty, as charged.
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