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Summary: Stephanie Strikes Again!
Review: Once again I found myself drawn into the world of Stephanie Plum and her wacky bunch of friends. Janet Evanovich has a rare talent for penning a humourous, fast paced, don't-want-it-to-end kind of book. My kind of read!
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Summary: Summer Fun
Review: Janet Evanovich's sassy, sexy heroine, Stephanie Plum, is a bounty hunter. Her usual targets are those who have skipped out on her employer, Max: A purveyor of bail bonds for some of New Jersey's most laughable--as well as most dangerous--alleged criminals.She's a very likeable character, and her snappy dialogue, everyday tribulations, and downright nasty encounters with the bad guys keep you glued to the book. Unfortunately, "Hot Six" is that the plot is filled with holes, the characters and their actions are often way beyond believable, and the mystery is solved partially--through withholding some important information from the reader. Yes, this is a farce, and should not be taken too seriously, but Evanovich needs to infuse a little more credibility into the book to rank with the likes of Sue Grafton and other contemporary authors. Evanovich is wildly popular right now, and I do recommend this book for breezy, page-turning fun. However, a little more credibility and development would put this in a higher echelon. Perhaps her newest book, "Seven Up" accomplishes that. This book, however, rates 3* as a mystery, but 5* as a fun vacation read. It averages out to 4* for breezy, snappy, page-turning fun.
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Summary: 6th Book - 6th HIT
Review: There is only one thing wrong with Janet Evanovich's books. THEY END!! Once again Janet has managed to write a book that cannot leave your hands until you have read the last sentence (and eagerly read the sample of the next one). Steph's family and friends are still as entertaining as they were in the first book and every suspensful section with included Ranger had me glued to the pages. You won't be dissapointed with this one. But if you are familiar with the Stephanie Plum series you already knew that.
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Summary: Stephanie Gets Funnier...
Review: Stephanie Plum is one of my all time favorite mystery genre heroines! Why? She's cute, she has holes in her jeans, she's smart and sassy, and she's funny! Not just snickeringly funny, but gut-straining, bellylaughing funny. Imagine yourself curled up in front of a Michigan fire on a chilly spring day, all alone in your house, and laughing out loud...the dog looks at you in puzzlement, and the cat jumps off your lap. And you just keep laughing! Stephanie Plum is THAT funny. And she's the lead character in a good mystery story as well. It's a good investment in a weekend, this novel. I recommend "Hot Six", and not just for laughs.
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Summary: Hot Six
Review: Lauged out loud most of the way through. Romance, mystery and suspense in one package. A total winner!
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Summary: She's ba-ack!
Review: Stephanie Plum fans are certain not to be disappointed in "Hot Six." Stephanie gets into just as many crazy scrapes, and she and the other characters are funnier than ever. This time the ever-mysterious Ranger (who is suspected of murder) is the fugitive. Stephanie knows she has no chance of capturing Ranger, so the case gets handed to her arch-rival, Joyce Barnhardt. Soon, Stephanie ends up with Joyce and two mob thugs following her around, thinking she will lead them to Ranger. Meanwhile, Grandma Mazur has moved in with Stephanie -- creating a huge crimp in her sex life. (Ranger and Joe Morelli are sexier than ever in this book.) Stephanie has more wacky adventures with Lula (one involving a flaming shirt and another involving flying cheese balls). All in all, it's a typical Plum mystery -- with everything fans of this series have come to expect and love. There's some new stuff, too. New characters: Bob the dog and the duo of The Mooner and The Dealer, all equally hilarious. This series keeps getting better; "Hot Six" is the best to date. The only problem with it is that it's so short; I can't spend a long time enjoying it. But it's so funny it deserves 5 stars anyway.
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Summary: Absolutely Hilarious
Review: Not realizing Hot Six was the sixth in a series of books about the lead character (Stephanie Plum), I bought this book in London's Heathrow airport so I'd have something to read on the flight home. I'm glad didn't know there were earlier Stephanie Plum books because I doubt I'd have picked it up, electing instead to start at book one when I returned home (and probably forgetting all about it.) I laughed so hard at some of the passages that people seated around me started to stare! Trust me, it makes no difference if you've read the previous Stephanie Plum novels, this one stands on its own as hilariously funny and a great mystery at the same time. The entire "Jersey" culture is marvelously rendered and the characters are wonderfully drawn. In fact, I'd be surprised if we don't see a Grandma Mazur fan club before too long! I had never heard of Stephanie or Janet Evanovich but now I'm going back to read all the books in the series. If you like to laugh and you enjoy a good story, you'll like this book.
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Summary: Just like all the others
Review: Ok, I know we read these books because of their entertainment value. But, please! The woman is stupid and would have been fired from McDonalds (or anywhere else) in 24 hours. She has a gun and is afraid to use it because she might shoot someone?! But she is around the dregs of humanity who would shoot her without thinking twice about it. She is afraid of the people she has to apprehend...who would want a job that you were afraid of. I enjoyed the first one but this woman would get on my nerves after a while.
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Summary: Hot Six
Review: After rampaging through the first five novels in as many days, I was really looking forward to Hot Six, especially with that cliffhanger from High Five needing resolved. I expected what I got with that, and that was one of the first disappointments of this book. Don't get me wrong, Hot Six is fun and funny, most of the time, but some of the humor seems a little forced and juvenile. I didn't find the dog funny, much less all the references to his bowel movements. YUCK. I just wanted Stephanie to take him to the pound where he would (hopefully) be put to sleep. The plot dragggged along so much that this was the first Plum book in which I found myself skipping paragraphs, then pages to get to something more interesting. About 3/4 of the way through, I finally skipped to the end. I find the love interest, Morelli, repulsive. He's a cookie-cutter romance book type of hero, and his nickname for Stepanie, "Cupcake," drives me up the wall. The sooner he's outta Steph's life, the happier I'll be. Ranger has possibilities. I do like how JE has been ever-so-slowly peeling back his layers. With each book, he gets more fascinating. On the positive side, I simply adore JE's often brilliant observations about the Jersey mindset, like how Steph knew that the woman attempting suicide at the beginning of the book wouldn't do it when she was wearing a great leather jacket. No, she'd give the jacket to a sister THEN jump. These little gems of insight are what make JE such a delightful author to read, even when the whole of a book falls a tad short of the mark, as in this case.
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Summary: Fun
Review: Anyone who knows North Jersey will hoot over these characters -- terminally sleazy but with good hearts (well, sort of). This is the sexiest of the six books with Ms. Plum, although it is very tame by contemporary standards. Sexy, yes; but funny sexy. At one point Plum's boyfriend says if they don't get into bed soon, he will self-combust. "I self-combusted in the shower this morning," replies Plum, whose sex life is severely complicated because her pistol-toting, Spandex-wearing grandma moved in with her. The entire book is funny, but there are places in the book that will cause you to laugh so hard the people around you will think you've lost your mind. That is, unless they've also read this book. Then they will say, "The place where the dog who ate the the prunes got kidnapped?" and you'll say "Woooo! Heeeee!" and such. It's a delightful book and Evanovich is a gem.
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