This gender stuff gets everywhere!

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Reading my new book tonight by a favourite author and had to laugh at the below :

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It gets better 
This is Janet Evanovich's latest (?) Stephanie Plum novel.

I think that about covers what a lot of people I’ve met think 😂

This is really cheering me up tonight

The writing is dreadful though.

They are real laugh out loud books though

That's Lula in the last quote right? I love Stephanie Plum, they're just quite off the wall.

Just out of interest - how is the make character here being portrayed? As a "bit rough round the edges but blunt spoken" protagonist or "trailer trash/redneck/middle class social conservative" antagonist?

I guess the bits I've posted are out of context. Stephanie plum is a bounty hunter. Zero slick is a criminal she is trying to find. He was cooking meth and blew up a building. The conversation is with his parents. I wasn't paying much attention but pretty sure he's not a red neck. He's a "paid activist" and cooks meth on the side. Stephanie is incredibly inept and Lula is a former prostitute with a whole lot of attitude. The books are fun and make me laugh. The film of the first book was embarrassingly awful and nothing like the book.

They are not realistic in any way at all, none of this would actually happen, but that's the joy of them. I can't really think how to describe them. They are not classic fiction but it's great to read about women characters doing and saying perhaps what we'd all like to but can't. And Lula being an ex-prostitute perhaps allows her to say things that a character otherwise couldn't.

I've dropped my children at school and am on my way home to curl up with the book and a cup of tea. Perfect escapism
I love the way that because it's fiction anything goes and can say things we'd all like to say.

I used to love Janet Evanovich. She's brave writing that but good for her! She's only saying what other people are thinking

They're tongue-in-cheek send-ups of the "hard-boiled" private investigator genre. Where VI Warshawski had a golden retriever, Stephanie has to make do with a hamster named "Rex". It's all very good-humoured, though, and Stephanie is very endearing. The humour comes from the absurdity of the situations she gets into, but at the same time there is an underlying feminist message, IMO.