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Summary: One Good Book For Your Money
Review: This is the first book in the Stephanie Plum mystery series. It sets the stage for the following books, and it happens to be one excellent story.Stephanie Plum is a broke, out-of-work lingerie buyer, with mounting bills and a repo man after her car. She has a nagging mother, complacent father, and a wacky, off-the-wall grandmother. And that is just in the first chapter. She goes to work as a skip tracer for her Uncle Vinnie. Her first assignment, which would bring her $10,000, is to bring in a cop named Joe Morelli, who happens to be the guy that stole her sweet virginity years earlier. Janet Evanovich brings together an outstanding group of characters who are all pretty well-developed. The storyline is very nicely defined behind her descriptive writing language, peppered with humor that will make you laugh out loud several times. Stephanie Plum is a smart, witty, exciting character in the world of mystery novels, and this first one is a good, solid effort. The book is loaded with plot twists, and the ending happens so quickly in this already-fast-paced book, it totally comes about as a shocking surprise. The suspense is superb. ONE FOR THE MONEY is a very entertaining read, and Evanovich does a super job of setting the stage for the following novels in the series.
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Summary: Should be a six star comedy
Review: This is the only series for which a new six star catagory ought to be made which I normally describe as 'pants wetting funny'. I found this, the first of the series, from amazon browze, and thought I'd be getting another tough gal private eye, coroner, detective, etc. It's helpful if you just consider sugarplums to be a christmas special. In this first book you are introduced to ex lingerie buyer Stephanie Plum and the first of her cars, and many lovable secondary characters. As soon as I saw she was an unemployed lingerie buyer I almost quit, but the hysterical dinner with her family won me over. Stephanie stumbles into a job as a bounty hunger because the filing job with her cousin is taken and slogs through the adventures with a combination of guts, luck, and a scary lack of reality about how underskilled she is for the job which comes naturally to the girl who once tried to fly off the garage roof. I expected to her to toughen up as the series continued, but with a sneak peek I'll admit that by book eight she is still scared of guns if much more used to exploding cars and finding people waiting in her living room who picked her lock. The book and series would be totally unrealistic if Stephanie wasn't sel admittedly 'lucky' rather then skilled. Her relatives on the police force and her home grown knowlege of the 'Mafia retirement community' in New Jersey with its net of families and friends makes her survival more plausible. Delightfully nearly all the wonderful secondary characters grace the sequels (including her hamster), something I really enjoy. It's a good crossover of romance, comedy and mystery for those of us that like our books varied. The sicker your sense of humor, the funnier this book is. Titled numerically I don't have to include a sequel chronology here, except that 'visions of sugar plums' (a christmas special) comes between eight and the soon to be published 'nine'.
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Summary: Not as good as i thought
Review: Well all I hear about is how these books are so great. Well I wasn't that impressed with it. The beginning was Pretty good and the ending was alright but the middle of the book, just plain ol boring. I heard the books start to get better after the first so hopefully they aren't as bad as the first.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: What a fantastic book! This is the funniest mystery/detective book I have ever read. Janet Evanovich is inspired in her book about an inept, but totally endearing, bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum and her crazy family, weird clients and outrageous friends.
You cannot put this book down and I know you will laugh out loud. You get the feeling of Trenton through Stephanie's eyes, the taste of her mother's meals, the pithy asides of her father, the eccentricity of her grandma and you will be totally absorbed from beginning to end.
I'm a Sue Grafton fan, and this is every bit as good and a whole lot funnier. I am not going to tell you the plot, because that would spoil some of the fun for you. Just buy it!!
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Summary: A Fun Read!
Review: You will fall in love with Stephanie Plum! She's a hard headed, smart mouthed, witty babe packing more attitude than you could imagine! This book is absolutely hilarious! It's fast pace keeps you turning pages! A very entertaining read!
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