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Summary: It Is What It Is...
Review: I have to agree with most of the other reviews. I am a die hard Evanovich fan and I had a hard time getting into this book. When I finally made up mind that this is not the "Stephanie Plum" series and a fluffed up book of Evanovich's earlier writing... I allowed myself to go with the flow and enjoyed what I could. I found myself feeling embarrassed for the author. It is ashamed that this book was not edited properly. Besides the Nick/Neil mistakes there was Detective Ferrell/Farrell misspelling and a few other obvious mistakes. I have to admit that the carelessness taken to produce this book made me feel a little taken. On a positive note ... the book was a cute fantasy story. Being a single mom at one time it was fun to fantasize that there would be someone like Nick, a knight in shining armor, that would fall in love with the "whole package." And, at least there was enough humor in the book to leave a smile on my face. I can't say that I will recommend this book like I have most of her others. I love Evonovich and that is the only reason this book gets a 3. I hope "Visions of a Sugar Plum." will hold up to her previous high standards.
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Summary: Devoted Evanovich readers BEWARE!
Review: Do not go into reading this novel expecting a characteristic Plum adventure! Take it for what it was intended to be...a lighthearted, wispy romance. Since it's from the beginnings of Evanovich's career as a writer, the story does not have the same depth and character development as seen in the Plum series. The attempts at wittiness are hindered, I believe, by the collaboration with fellow writer Charlotte Hughes. The secondary characters, in their outlandishness, are comparable to those in the Plum series. However, the main characters, Nick and Billie, don't hold their own among the minor characters. I can't say I was disappointed with this novel because I read it without expecting much from it. I think this was an attempt to tide over fans that eagerly await the next installment of the Stephanie Plum series. While this was a pleasant enough read, it just didn't accomplish that for me. I'll pass the time some other way as we all wait for the return of our favorite zany Jersey girl.
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Summary: Full House is a Bluff
Review: A Full House is what Janet Evanovich claims to have in this alleged improvement on an early novel -- but she's bluffing, big-time. Stilted writing, a banal plot, and characters shallower than most politicians. I'd feel guilty re-selling it for 50 cents at a garage sale. Shame on the publisher and Ms. Evanovich for conning those of us who enjoyed her later writing.
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Summary: Fun and Slapstick, a Romantic Farce!
Review: "Full House," took me about three hours to read, cover to cover, and thankfully I was only in public for about forty minutes of that, on a bus. I laughed out loud at least once a chapter at Evanovich's typical slapstick style of storytelling - enough to earn strange looks from the other passengers on the bus.
This is no Stephanie Plum mystery - and I didn't go into it expecting one, which I think many others might have and would explain the overall low rating this book received. I enjoyed it as what it was: crazy fun romantic hijinks with impossibly neurotic characters aplenty. When you put in a blonde bombshell airhaid into the home of a strict but fair schoolteacher, add in a young genius who blows things up, a wrestler and his wrestling buddies, a polo-teaching rich man and his crazy ex-fiance, and, of course, an ineffective bug killer, you can't help but set the stage for typical Evanovich fallout. When the schoolteacher falls for the playboy, despite the airhead's attempts to set her up with "Big John" the anatomically exaggerated wrestler, things are sure to fire up as zany as ever.
My one real frustration with the book was how terribly it was edited. Nick, the love interest of our heroine, is referred to as Neil a few times (why would you have to change the name of the character when this book was re-written?), and there are a large enough number of other small mistakes that derailed my train of thought just often enough to make me drop this review from four stars to three.
This book was candy, not a three-course meal, and as a candy-book, it was wonderful. You read it quickly, enjoy it, and then move on to another book. Go in expecting a light and quick read, and you'll be happy.
'Nathan
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Summary: Er, a romance novel?
Review: That's definitely not what I expected when I picked up this reworked and rereleased novel from Janet Evanovich, but I still enjoyed it. I'd give it 2.5 stars, if that were an option, just because the plot is one giant cliche. Fortunately, the cliched plot is somewhat saved by Janet's humorous writing. This story is nearly every girl's secret fantasy - rich, handsome, funny, suave womanizer falls madly in love with Everyday Woman Like Us. Ugh, predictable! I should hate this! Sadly, my inner teenage girl ate it right up, rather voraciously - she loves that whole gratification of desires thing. [sigh] OH, the humanity... I much prefer Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, but this wasn't bad, especially considering it's an early work for her. Hopefully this won't get me hooked on romance novels in general - I'm not quite sure I could cope with that. ;-)
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Summary: A Knight In Shining Armor -- A True Romance Story
Review: Like must readers, I am a big fan of Ms. Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series but, I did not set my hopes on this book being like or written in the Stephanie Plum style. I think must of Ms. Evanovich's readers were looking for or expecting this book to contain funny and outlandish characters like the Stephanie Plum Novels. But this is a romance book and not really a mystery. Like most romance novels, the setting is the same; a man and woman meet, they feel this special chemistry and they feel this physical attraction but they try to fight off. The woman is portrayed as an old-fashioned gal, the one who will never trust another man because she was hurt in a pass relationship, don't kiss on the first date and just a miss goodie, goodie. The man is this big strong playboy, who is drop dead gorgeous, can have any woman he wants, who has many of girlfriends, but does not want to settle down, so he breaks up the relationship, when they fall in love with him. Basically, the book starts off slow and boring and at one point, I was ready to put the book down. But when I continue to read, I noticed that strange and bizaar incidents were happening to the characters and I found myself wanted to know who, what, and why. So the novel did contain mystery and I could detect some of the author's writing style that she uses in the Stephanie Plum's series. My suggestion when reading this book, don't look for the Stephanie Plum environment or characters but tell yourself, this is the author's earlier work and this is romance.
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Summary: Full House
Review: I'm a hopeless Evanovich fan, but even so, I couldn't make it through this book. It's very poorly written with implausible characters and situations.
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Summary: Full House
Review: Having just recently found the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series, I was excited about something "new" from the same author. As it turns out, I'm glad I read the Plum series first. If Full House had been my first Evanovich novel, I might not have returned as a Plum reader. This book was disappointing, to say the least. I read 76 pages and couldn't bring myself to continue, even though I rarely leave a book unfinished--this was the exception! It was dull and plodding, the characters were not believable, interesting, or entertaining, and there was absolutely nothing in the first 76 pages that made me want to know more about any of them. I'll continue to read the Plum series, but I'll leave Evanovich's attempts at light romance alone.
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Summary: Fun at the Zoo
Review: Fans of the Plum series seem to find the more classic romantic comedy in FULL HOUSE unsettling. They look for Ranger and he just isn't here. But what is here is a zooful of colorful characters, a sweet romance (the heroine is a housewife, not a bounty hunter) and a book with more depth and fewer car explosions than Plum fans have come to expect. If you are looking for a warm and funny reading experience, then Full House will bring a smile to your lips. I loved it.
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Summary: Do I really have to enter at least one star???
Review: Don't the stars for the review come in negative? I vote -1 star. I'm with the person who said this book cheated them out of money. I LOVED all of the other books written by Janet Evanovich--did I say loved, I meant devoured. I went to the bookstore the day they came out. But this??? Anyone who gives this book anything more than a star is wacked! I didn't laugh once and felt annoyed that I spent the time to get to the end.
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