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Summary: Pure Pleasure!
Review: Stephanie Plum is hilarious. I can't put these books down and can't stop laughing. A unique experience, you will love the Stephanie Plum series.
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Summary: one great one for the money...
Review: Stephanie Plum is a down on her luck Jersey girl. Her parents want her to marry and settle down, or at the very least get a decent job at the button factory or a nice filing job. How does this idea sit with Ms. Plum? She goes to work for an Uncle as a bounty hunter.With no previous experience in this field the possibilities for danger are unlimited. She is shot at, handcuffed, threatened with rape and this is just the beginning. Janet Evanovich has created a wonderful, interesting and very funny character and then proceeds to surround Stephanie Plum with a crazy array of Jersey-ites that are sure to keep you riveted in the frightening and also funny adventures of this female bounty hunter!!
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Summary: This series is hilarious. A must-read!
Review: Heroine: Average "Bawdy, raucous, and outrageously sexy" don't even begin to do justice to this thriller series which reads like an episode of "Moonlighting" meets "Married to the Mob". Heroine Stephanie Plum is from the Burg, a close-knit neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey where the gals wear their skirts tighter and shorter than their spandex biker shorts, their make-up is louder than their booming car stereos, and their ultra-tall back-teased hair barely fits under the doorways at the mall. Formerly a discount lingerie buyer, Italian-Hungarian Stephanie falls on hard times and, in a fit of desperation, approaches her sleazy cousin Vinnie about a job as a bond recovery agent at his bail bonding business. Murder, mayhem, and mishaps abound as Stephanie tries to get her "collars" and discovers the job is far more difficult when you're the only unarmed person in Jersey. (Stephanie actually owns a piece but prefers to leave it in the cookie jar in her kitchen.) What worked for me: As much as I enjoy the zany plots and wacky secondary characters, I think what keeps me coming back to the series the most is Steph's tangled love life. (It must be nice to have not one but two delicious hunks chasing after you!) Janet Evanovich honed her word craft skills while writing romantic fiction, so she certainly knows how to spin out the sexual tension between the superbly-drawn characters of Stephanie, Morelli, and Ranger. In fact, it takes several books of the series before there is any culmination of lust and love whatsoever. Talk about extended foreplay! Some folks might not find the mysteries convoluted enough, but not being a Perry Mason myself I like the fact that I catch on to the clues before Steph. Makes me feel quite the sharp cookie. :^) As far as size goes, Stephanie lays a few numbers on you weight-wise, but you get a sense that she's fudging them a bit. There are some characters who have a decidedly fat-phobic view on life but fortunately Lula is there to straighten them out.
What didn't work for me: Serial writing is a great gimmick. It's all about leaving the reader hanging by a thread waiting desperately for the next installation in the series. I was lucky, having jumped on the band wagon late I was able to zip through all of the books back-to-back. Now that I am all caught up, though, I too shall have to endure the agony of waiting to find out what will happen in the next book. Overall: Excellent writing, interesting plots, wildly colorful recurring characters, and an infusion of humor make this series a great joy to read, with each book even better than the one before! Since the novels build on each other it's best to read them in order. Warning: there is coarse language used in these books, and they must be read while eating pizza and/or doughnuts. If you liked the "Stephanie Plum" mystery/thriller series, you might also like "Plum Girl", "Fast Women", "Lola Carlyle Reveals All", "Walking at Midnight" and "Looking for Laura". The who's who of the Stephanie Plum series: Joe Morelli: dedicated cop; known for having the best buns in the Burg. As the neighborhood wolf, he's had dozens of mothers saying rosaries for their daughters over the years, including Mrs. Plum when she learned that 8 year old Joe had lured 6 year old Stephanie into his father's garage to play "Choo-Choo". Ranger: Ultra-fit, dark, mysterious former military man, now mercenary bounty hunter with questionable side-businesses. So gorgeous that women walk into walls when he flashes a smile. Once had to release Stephanie from a pair of handcuffs which held her chained in the all-together to her own shower stall. Grandma Mazur: Stephanie's 70-odd year old grandmother, who doesn't look a day over 90. Likes to wear the same wild clothes as her granddaughter, especially to viewings at the local funeral parlors, which is the main social activity in the neighborhood. Recently learned the joys of sharp shooting when she shot a roasted chicken "in the gumpy". Lula: full-figured former hooker with a heart of gold and knuckles of brass. Loves to ride shotgun with Steph to pick up skips, but pouts when she is told not to actually shoot anyone. Mom and Dad Plum: Stephanie's parents. Dad is retired but drives a cab just to get away from Grandma Mazur and his wife. Mom is the ultimate hausfrau who lures food-loving Stephanie to the house with wonderful home-cooked meals then subjects her to hours of nagging, which gives Steph an unfortunate twitch in her left eye. Joyce Barnhardt: our heroine's nemesis who was once caught using Steph's now ex-hubby's backside to polish to the dining room table. Joyce "persuades" Vinnie in a similar manner to hire her on as a skip tracer, much to Steph's everlasting exasperation. Big Blue: An ancient powder blue Buick with windows like portholes. Steph hates this car because it's old, ugly, and turns on a buck-and-a-half. It sticks out like a sore thumb on stake-outs and is likewise useless for tailing people, but on the plus-side it's the only car to-date that Steph's managed not to blow up.
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Summary: Too dumb to live
Review: Evanovich is a wonderful writer, giving a great sense of place and well drawn characters. But Stephanie Plum? Oy! I wanted to throw the book across the room. She drags an injured woman through her apartment window? Even a high school student would know better. She hears, on the phone, a man whose identity she knows torturing a woman. Does she call the police? No. She plugs in her answering device. Dozens of other utterly absurd actions show her to be a total [mindless person]. She is so stupid that she becomes a primary cause of another person being shot! I must say this is the absolute worst book of its kind I have ever read.
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Summary: Please read the first one before you read the others!!
Review: I liked this book alot, Stephanie Plum, is a young girl some of us could totally relate too. I loved the author's description of Jersey. I am very anxious to read the other books that follow this one.
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Summary: Great Book-Lousy Audio
Review: I enjoyed all the Stephanie Plum books and rated them 5 stars. I was looking forward to sharing them with my husband while on vacation, but the audio version was very disappointing. Ms. Petty's voice was so annoying I barely made it through chapter 1 of book 1. Four hours in a car with that voice is worse than listening to the kids fight! Forget this audio version-try to find the orginal unabridged version!
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Summary: ONE FOR THE MONEY
Review: This book in the series was my first look into the world of
Stephaine Plum. I love the off-beat characters in her story.
I especially liked the Bounty Hunter that taught her. I
definitely will read more!!!!!!!...
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Summary: Fun story
Review: Love the witty personality of Janet Evanovich! I enjoyed the books so much I passed it on to my husband and he couldn't put it down either. I'm thrilled to have this author on my list!
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Summary: Just too funny
Review: I am a total romance person. I don't like to read anything else, but I decided to get Janet's books(really I got them for my husband because he likes mysteries). I am currently on Four to Score and I'm here to tell you---GET THEM. They are really funny. My husband keeps giving me wierd looks because I'm just setting there laughing. Janet's books are on my shelves to stay. I don't think she is going to be able to write fast enough to keep up with her fan club of devoted followers.
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Summary: Entertaining & Just Compelling Enough To Get The Next Book
Review: This is a good book, not great but deffinatly a solid and entertaining read. I am reviewing this one after having read all seven books in this series. The first book is a short easy read that basically introduces you to the main characters you will see thru the rest of the series. The story line is good and well written but it only gets better from here. For me One For The Money was good enough to interest me in the second book and from there the plots took off! When I was done reading Seven Up i found myself upset that Hard Eight was not released yet. I am Jonesing to find out what happens next! I highly reccomend this book because it is the first, even if not the best, in a fantastic series!
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