Hot Six

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Summary: Stephanie hunts Ranger?
Review: Yep, that's the story in Hot Six, and what a story. Stephanie needs every trick Ranger taught her - and that's just to deal with her new roommate - Grandma Mazur (just imagine trying to maintain a relationship with Joe with Grandma avidly watching!)

The wait for the latest offering in this series seemed forever, but it was well worth it. I couldn't put it down.

Sigh. But now I have to wait for #7.

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Summary: HOT SIX is one HOT READ!
Review: Stephanie, Joe, and Ranger are back, marking the sixth in the "Stephanie Plum" series. From the closing of "High Five" the reader was left with the picture of Stephanie in a "hot" little black dress and someone saying "..nice dress, take it off." The reader has waited a year to discover who that person is. I'm not telling! As for the rest of the story...Trenton, NJ is still full of Characters who forget their court dates, one of whom is RANGER! The book is awash with the usual wonderfully whacky people who make Stephanie's job as a bounty hunter so challenging .PLUS....Stephanie's grandmother driving! This marks the official start of summer...DON'T MISS this BOOK, but you have to read 1-2-3-4-& 5 in order to appreciate "HOT SIX."

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Summary: HOT SIX by Janet Evanovich
Review: This latest entry in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich is hilarious and fully up to her usual standards. Fans who have followed Stephanie's progress as a bounty hunter will be proud of her as she tackles some of the biggest challenges in her new career: bringing in a homicidal rapist FTA, babysitting a friend's dog, and providing room and board to Grandma Mazur. If you liked HIGH FIVE, you'll love HOT SIX. And yes, you'll find out who was at the door.

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Summary: "Boy was it worth the wait"
Review: For a year now, Janet has kept us waiting and hoping and discussing what actually happened at the end of "High Five." Well, now we know, and it was well worth the wait. Stephanie, Joe, Ranger, and the gang are back in another funny, quirky outing for Trenton's most challenged bounty hunter. This time Steph has to find Ranger, who is wanted by the cops (and Steph's favorite cop, Joe Morelli) and an assorted bunch of bad guys because of his alleged involvement in the murder of a mobster. Did he do it? Can she find him? Can she stay a step ahead of the others? Can she solve the murder? Can she make up her mind between the two men in her life? Well, it's a wonderful laugh-a-minute romp, as only Janet Evanovich can write. Can hardly wait until (Wild, Deadly, whatever?) Seven in 2001!

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Summary: "Plum" Gets Pluckier
Review: As I wrote in my review of Evanovich's 1st book in this hilarious mystery series, "One For The Money", this woman can create more comedic havoc than senior citizens bumping & nudging their way into some small restaurant, making sure they get that early bird meat loaf special. And that goes for the authoress as well as our New Jersey heroine, Stephanie Plum.

Sue Graff has the "alphabet"--Ms. Evanovich has the "numbers". These are fast paced, easy to read, fun mysteries with a cast of characters we feel right at home with.

Stephanie is still having car problems. ( AAA's nightmare member) I was laughing so hard when she had to use a "Rollswagon"--yep, half VW, half Rolls Royce. Add a new bounding dog, Bob, who has bad hair days, a whacky maniac Munson who keeps attacking Stephanie with fire, aimed moving vehicles, tire irons--as she tries to bring him in for skipping bail and --whew--let me catch my fingers here-- I think I am TYPERventilating.

Any ole hoo, smoldering Ranger is in trouble this time. Crime family Ramos has set him up and plucky Stephanie Plum is there for him--in any way he wishes!

You know, I'm thinking this series would work on T.V. And I see Fran Drescher (of "The Nanny" fame) as our lovingly manic Stephanie Plum.

The jacket cover is as wild & hot as Evanovich's plots. Great fun reading. Thanks for your interest & comments--CDS

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Summary: Plum Perfect, Again
Review: Janet Evanovich has created a most hysterical heroine (yet again) in Stephanie Plum in this sixth adventure. Let me just say this about "Hot Six" I bought it 10 minutes after I finished High Five. No joke, I couldn't wait to find out who the lucky man in her life was, and what other FTA's might come her way, and how she will (eventually) get her man. I didn't really think I could ever like someone more than Kinsey Milhone of the Sue Grafton fame, but I do. "Hot Six" should keep you pretty much in stitches, or tears from laughing at the countless shenanigans Stephanie falls victim to. From the dog, to the Dealer and Mooner to her gun carring grandma, Stephanie handles it all with...ease? Oh, and don't let me forget about the two men in her life, Ranger and Morelli. Better yet, don't get me started. It's too good to tell! You'll have to read this book. There are no two ways about it. I would have given this book more than 5 stars on the rating scale, but they don't allow it! Anyway, READ it, LAUGH, and PASS IT ON to your friends and family. I bet a dollar to a doughnut, you'll hardly be able to wait for the next Stephanie Plum adventure!

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Summary: A hilariously good time!
Review: "You've got a pip of a life," Grandma said. "Never a dull moment. Fast cars, fast men, fast food. I wouldn't mind having a life like that."

And grandma means it. She sets out (bless her heart) to have a life just LIKE that!

Think of Hot Six as a mystery drenched in comic relief. Stephanie Plum is an unusual heroine with an unusual job description. She is a bounty hunter. She is also surrounded by a cast of unusual and very indiscreet characters, her "on-again-off-again" love interest police officer Joe Morelli, her 200+ pound side kick Lula, her "mentor-turned-murder-suspect" Ranger (who also contributes to her self-diagnosed "nymphomania"), a dog named Bob who has a ghastly eating disorder, and her less than cooperative grandmother who temporarily moves in on her (and tries to mimic Stephanie's sex life). This makes for one roaring good time, but lest we forget, there is still a mystery to be solved here!

And a whopping good mystery it is...Stephanie is forced to help her mentor, the man who taught her everything she knows about "fugitive apprehension" try to clear his name as a murder suspect. She also has to shoo away the killers who are trying to track her down, and avoid blowing up another car. You'll have fun keeping track of all the antics and mayhem, as well as the seriousnness of the case she is trying to solve.

With all the laughs in the first few pages, it's hard to believe that this could get any funnier, (just wait until grandma moves in...)but this book had me rolling right until the last page. The ending with Bella and Mrs Morelli nearly set me into a permanent laughing fit.

I was impressed with how Evanovich moved the plot along as well as the comedic dialogue. Her characters are very colorful, the plot is solid and the pace is smooth. This was a major departure for me, but I thoroughly enjoyed the diversion and can't wait to get my hands on Evanovich's next Stephanie Plum adventure!

Highly recommended...even for you fellow "suspense-thriller" loyalists

Cris

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Summary: NANA LOVES PLUM
Review: I love them all. Just love them. Never a fan of continuing characters in mystery novels, I tripped over the first one in a used book store and have kept coming back for the never ending saga of "Calamity Stephanie" the bounty hunter who cannot shoot straight but can recognize a bona fide jersey girl a mile away. This time Stephanie is plagued by the disappearance of her mentor Ranger, a serial nut who refuses to be brought to justice, two spacey "businessmen" who operate out of a party house, her "big-haired nemesis" and the untimely arrival of her swinging single grandmother who seems older than God and as infamous as Elvis. While Grandma takes driving lessons and sports a new boyfriend, Stephanie tries to decide who she loves and who she can trust as she tails her elusive mentor while questioning his guilt in a mob family murder. All this while paying some attention to her sometimes boyfriend and full time cop, Joe. Great dialogue and wonderful plot twists, as usual. Just read it! My own 84 year old grandmother demands each new Plum tale is Fed Exed to her in her assisted care home. Grandma is her hero. She'll be yours, too.

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Summary: Sparkle Hayter is Better & Funnier !!!!
Review: I finally got around to reading Evanovich. My expectations were high, probably because her books are always on the best seller lists and are always checked out at my local library. I was amazed to discover what juvenile and boring drivel her work is. For those who have convinced themselves they like Evanovich I recommend they try Sparkle Hayter's Robin Hudson novels which are 100% better than any Evanovich. The titles to look for are:
What's A Girl Gotta Do?, Nice Girls Finish Last, The Last Manly Man, Revenge of the Cootie Girls, and The Chelsea Girl Murders.

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Summary: Fun, easy read
Review: This book is hilarious. It is an easy read and keeps you laughing out loud all the way through. Stephanie and her fellow colleagues and love mates are interesting and snappy. Gotta love Stephanie Plum. I plan to read all of hers.