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Summary: Laugh-out-loud hilarious!
Review: This is the funniest Stephanie Plum mystery ever! I kept laughing out loud (good thing I was reading it at home and not on the bus!) Although I figured out pretty early on what was happening in the plot, the wacky characters were so funny, the dialogue so peppy, the situations so very fast and breaking in-your-face, that the story just marched on briskly to an ending that came much too soon. I saw a movie called Snatch yesterday, and the two dumb hired guns threatening our Steph, Habib and Mitchell, could have stepped out of the book and into that movie. Best line: in thinking about Habib and his many digressions on what the men in his Pakistan village would do to independent women like Stephanie, she muses that on second thought, she didn't think Habib came from a village in Pakistan, but directly from Hell. New to this book are the two stoners, The Mooner and Dougie, and Carol Zabo, who makes a habit of threatening to jump off bridges. The old gang, though, is back in full force, esp. my favorite, the plus-size ex-'ho, Lula, the slimy Vinny Plum, Joyce Barnhardt, bounty-hunter-wannabe (who gets a delicious, delicious come-uppance!), and the two sexiest men in popular fiction, cop Joe Morelli and the enigmatic Ranger. Stephanie's cup runneth over with these two hunks to play with :) And how could I have forgotten Bob, the dog, whose digestive processes save Stephanie at a pivotal point in the story? (How Stephanie winds up a dog-owner is also very funny.) Love it, love it, love it! Janet Evanovich, you are a treasure!
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Summary: A Peach of a Plum
Review: No mystery author has yet to give zits quite the zest that Janet Evanovich has in "Hot Six." "Six" is the latest in Evanovich's oft-zany, yet startlingly real-world-in-many-ways, detective series featuring the somewhat successful Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter. Plum #6 is also the sweetest fruit produced by Evanovich since we first met Steph, Grandma and the gang in "One For The Money," which actually ranks just below "Hot Six" in quality.A mystery writer with only one protagonist (as opposed to Agatha Christie, for example)must meet at least two difficult standards on which the bar gets raised for each new book. Readers want the feel of familiarity, of "being family," but need more than nuturing. Readers need the satisfaction of a sustainable product, one in which the protagonist grows as a "person" or her accompanying cast of characters grows, changes, becomes more "real," whatever. Example -- Sara Paretsky, one of the genre's crown princesses, is facing a lack of character development in detective V.I. Warshawski, her protagonist. In the past Paretsky has gotten around this problem by enriching the supporting cast including her friend the doctor and her neighbor with whom she shares dogs. Example -- Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone is a well-developed character. And Muller clearly is also accruing some sweat equity by enriching the cast, including chronicling the evolution of the "All Souls Legal Cooperative" as it enters the 21st Century and by introducing new characters such as the latest love interest. "High Five" had me worried that Evanovich was burning out. Steph's "people" were more interesting and multi-dimensional than Steph. "Hot Six" shows every sign that Evanovich has recognized the problem and set about rectifying it. She took what could have been a mystery writer's deadly melanoma and turned it around with the help of a brilliantly written zit. And she remains the only writer who has ever made me want to visit Trenton
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Summary: Stephanie Plum has never let me down
Review: I enjoy entertaining mysteries. I'm pretty fastidious about the authors I like, and Evanovich is one of my favorites because she has such great wit, her dialogue is terrific and every book gets better, the latter trait being quite rare in my mind. Love her, love her books.
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Summary: As always - a laugh-a-minute! The best yet!
Review: I always expect fun when Stephanie Plum is in the picture and Janet Evanovich doesn't disappoint with Hot Six. This is my favorite so far of the series - probably the funniest and most entertaining. I wish there were more Plum books, so I could go back and read them again.
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Summary: MORE ! MORE ! MORE !
Review: Very few writers make me laugh out loud. Thank you so much, Ms. Evanovich, for sharing your outstanding sense of humor. This entire series is a "hoot". As an avid reader, I just keep hoping that the next one in any series will, at the very least, be as good as the previous book. This series just gets better! Not only are her quirky characters richly drawn, but her wild story lines keep the reader wondering how the craziness could possibly end and make any sense at all. This wonderful writer gets the job done. Oh, and I haven't mentioned the snappy, amusing dialog and enough sexual tension to turn on a corpse. (Yes, there is always one of those popping into our favorite imposter bounty hunter's life.) Morelli and Ranger will make you drool a little on this book, so keep a tissue handy. But, on my laugh meter, it's Grandma Mazur who rings the bell. Thank you, Ms. Evanovich for a fabulously entertaining series. KEEP THEM COMING!
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Summary: BEST ONE YET!!! KEEP THEM COMING!
Review: Janet Evanovich has done it again. I think the interaction between Stephanie and her new roommates: her grandmother and the dog, have made the story more interesting and funny. You can't wait to see if Stephanie ever gets a break and things will go her way, especially when it comes to her relationships with Joe and Ranger. I had a hard time putting it down.
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Summary: The Car Carnage Continues ... and So Does the Fun
Review: Stephanie Plum is a walking, talking riot. Grandma Mazur is even more of a pistol - and she has a falling out with mama and moves in with Stephanie. The continuing saga of Stephanie's car carnage, girls of the 'hood, and wonderfully troublesome men will not disappoint, but the reader will meet a wonderful new pet too. Another bounty hunt, another huge laugh, with the slapstick irreverence that Ms. Evanovich takes very seriously. You will need to watch where you read this book, for you will be hooting and laughing out loud all the way through it. If you have not read the delightful books beginning with "One for the Money" - I'd suggest you do that first.
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Summary: Very Enjoyable
Review: I enjoyed this book. Miss Plum gets a lot of action, some with cop Morelli. The bounty hunter business can be very humorous. Steph has a hamster named Rex and in this book appears a rambunctious dog named Bob. Her Glock totting voluptuous partner( in some cases), Lula, is becoming a tuff broad. Ranger, the mysterious Latin investigator, makes your mouth water. The plot about the Ramos family, gunrunning, drugs, missing cash, dead bodies turning up, is a little vague. But Hey! go get um Steph.
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Summary: Yum! Wow! Zounds!
Review: More, more, more, PLEASE! Can't wait to see what kind of trouble Stephanie can get in and out of next. And I'm still holding my breath waiting for Grandma Mazur to plug somebody! Laughs, thrills, romance, and mystery all in one. Brava, Ms. Evanovich!
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Summary: Avid Mystery,Detective Fan Finds Delightfully Different Type
Review: Being in many Detective, Thriller, Mystery, and other book clubs,(7) I grabbed this as part of "pick free 6 books." I had no idea it would be a keep me up all night. It IS a mystery and with a bounty hunter has action though from many of the other reviews you may get the idea that it's "just" a comedy. It is funny, in many ways like life just gets wierd and funny, yet gets you upclose and feeling like you know the quirky characters, and I certainly enjoy Stephanie Plum, as in "I'd love to have lunch or go for a drink with her." Now I want to get all her others. If your regular cup of tea is Kellerman, Cannell, Cornwell, Sandford, Patterson, etc. etc.- give this a try and you may be as surprised and delighted by this very cleaver,talented writer who's genre is a wonderful mix.
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