Series in order?

I looked again through my pile of unread books. I have a couple of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. I have numbers 8 and 10 yet to read. Problem is, I've only read the first three novels in the series. A friend of mine who has read them all says it doesn't really matter -- I could read them out of order and not get confused. And I've done with other books, like the Angel books I have or the American Dreams series. What's your preference? Would you rather read the books in order of just dive right in to whatever is on hand?

Janet Evanovich

If you haven't read any Janet Evanovich books yet, you are really missing something. The best by far are the Stephanie Plum books. I have only read the first 3 in that series, but I kind of skipped around a little and read two of the in-between-the-novels books: Plum Lovin' and Plum Lucky. These are short holiday books that use the Stephanie Plum character without getting too much into the main storyline of the series. Check out my reviews of Plum Lucky and Plum Lovin'.