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Summary: Entertaining...Could have been better...Still worth it...
Review: At the risk of appearing to be the dog in the manger while everyone else is giving this book glowing reviews I'm going to add my 2 cents worth. I've read all of the Stephanie Plum novels and felt that this one was the weakest of the five. While I always enjoy Stephanie's antics I felt that the author is introducing too many wacky characters. By novel #4 we now have crazy Grandma Mazur, flamboyant Lula the ex-'ho and now Sally Sweet the cross dressing rock star. It's beginning to look like a dog and pony show in here! I also thought that the central crime story was boring in this one. BUT, I still do love the Stephanie Plum character and the author's following book, High Five, was an improvement over this glitch so I'm giving Janet Evanovich my vote of confidence and looking forward to book six of the series. Bottom Line: Read Four to Score for the full Stephanie Plum experience!
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Summary: Score a Ten!!!
Review: This fourth book in the series is one of nonstop falling off your chair laughter. Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter is after Maxine Nowicki, who is free on a stolen automobile charge. Her boyfriend, Eddie Kuntz, also offers Stephanie money in hopes that she can retrieve something extremely valuable to him...love letters, he claims. The chase is on in this page-turning craze, and all of the extra added details that makes this adventure that much more funny! The cast of characters is helpful to Stephanie once again. Stephanie's family, especially Grandma Mazur, add pizzazz, depth, and a heck of a lot of humor to this great plot.
Joe Morelli is also back and yes him and Stephanie finally get together!
Lula, the large prostitute-turned-file clerk-slash-wannabe is hysterical in this book. Her quick wit and street humor keep you rolling.
This fourth book also introduces Sally Sweet, a code-breaking transvestite 'drag queen" musician. Grandma Mazur comes right out and asks Sally what a drag queen does with his ding-dong and I died laughing. Stephanie's enemy, Joyce Barnhardt, also has a larger roll in this book, as the newest bounty hunter at the Vincent Plum bail bonds agency. This book is truly hysterical, pages keep turning with the fast paced humor and wit. This is the best book yet in the series and I thought three was good. This series is highly recommended!
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Summary: Best of the Series So Far
Review: Wow!! Just as I had written off the series as nothing more than rehash and repetition (Book III) here comes Janet with the best so far. I wanted to shout a loud "hurrah" when Stephanie got together with Joe - this has been one long foreplay and now they get down to business. Then there is the addition of arch-rival Joyce (we also get to meet ex-hubby/lawyer) as a bounty hunter. Almost as good was the treatment Lula dished out to poor Joyce. Finally new character Sally, a transvestite, makes the novel a rollicking, frollicking picnic from beginning to end. Poor Stephanie has more problems with cars than the rest of Trenton put together but she still has the old Buick and her family is still around, harping and carping. "Four" is a classic!!
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Summary: I love this book almost as much as I love Joe Morelli!
Review: I will be forever grateful to my friend who recommended the Stephanie Plum series to me. I love these books. Janet Evanovich creates such memorable characters. Four to Score, in particular, has an outstanding "cast." There's Sally and Sugar, the local drag queens who head up a band called The Lovelies. Maxine, the one Stephanie is hunting for, who is playing a hilarious game of revenge with her ex-boyfriend. And, of course, the familiar stand by's: Joe Morelli (he might be fictional, but I seriously love that man), Lula the former prostitute, and Stephanie's Grandma Mazur. In Four to Score, I was able to figure out who was stalking Stephanie early on, but Evanovich still kept me guessing on the "real" bad guy. I was sorry to see this book end. All the books in the series are entertaining, but I found this one particularly enjoyable. It's a quick, fun read. I can't recommend it enough!
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Summary: This Book Is So Explosive, Your Home And Car Will Blow Up
Review: Nah, that would be just too unbelievable. Not for the bad-luck-with-hair bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum. This fourth book in the series is one of non-stop outrageous humor. Stephanie Plum is after Maxine Nowicki, and FTA who is free on a stolen automobile charge. Her boyfriend, Eddie Kuntz, also employs Stephanie's services in hopes that she can retrieve something extremely valuable to him...love letters? The chase is on in a page-turning frenzy, and all of the extra added elements that Janet Evanovich throws in makes the adventure that much more complete. The cast of characters is sensational once again. Stephanie's family, especially the show-stealing antics of Grandma Mazur, add color, depth, and a heck of a lot of humor to the already well-developed plot. Straight-faced cop Joe Morelli is also back to steam up the personal scenes, and do they ever get hot in this epic. Lula, the large prostitute-turned-file clerk-slash-wannabe skip tracer is also back, adding a hilarious friendship element with a touch of street humor. This novel also introduces Sally Sweet, a code-breaking "regional" transvestite musician who spouts out the F-word every chance he can get. Stephanie's main nemesis, Joyce Barnhardt, also has a seemingly larger voice in this novel, as the newest bounty hunter at the Vincent Plum bail bonds agency. This book is outright hysterical. Evanovich weaves together an amazing story of intrigue and thrilling suspense that flows so nicely, and ends in high speed mayhem that is just truly unbelievable. The witty dialogue, sensational Trenton setting, and fast-paced thrilling plot make FOUR TO SCORE a real winner. This is one of the best books in the series.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This was the first of Janet Evanovich's books I read, one I picked up on a whim at a used book sale, lured in by sheer curiosity and impressed by the number of positive reviews on its back cover from prominent literary critics. I must say, it was one of the better impulses I've ever had, as it was immediately obvious from the first chapter how well-deserved the praise truly was. This is a book that will make you laugh out loud and hold your attention until the last page, where you will inevitably be left wanting only to continue with Stephanie on her next adventure. I could hardly get my hands on the next book fast enough, and now proudly declare myself a Stephanie Plum addict. She is a character that stays with you, more real and likeable than a lot of people you'll encounter in reality. Kudos to Evanovich - don't miss this series! It's golden.
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Summary: Best of the Series So Far
Review: Wow!! Just as I had written off the series as nothing more than rehash and repetition (Book III) here comes Janet with the best so far. I wanted to shout a loud "hurrah" when Stephanie got together with Joe - this has been one long foreplay and now they get down to business. Then there is the addition of arch-rival Joyce (we also get to meet ex-hubby/lawyer) as a bounty hunter. Almost as good was the treatment Lula dished out to poor Joyce. Finally new character Sally, a transvestite, makes the novel a rollicking, frollicking picnic from beginning to end. Poor Stephanie has more problems with cars than the rest of Trenton put together but she still has the old Buick and her family is still around, harping and carping. "Four" is a classic!!
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Summary: Four to Score, scored a lot of points with me
Review: Four To Score
Janet Evanovich's Four To Score keeps readers minds going and their hearts beating faster. Janet Evanovich is an author of comedic mystery with a definite element of suspense. The characters that she develops are a perfect fit for the style of writing. I believe Lula to be the most original character of them all. The things that she says and the way she acts keeps a readers laughing and peoples minds twisting and turning with thoughts.
For a person to read and enjoy this book, people need to like suspenseful mysteries that have a romantic and sexy twist to them every once in a while. I recommend this book to women more so than men because it is written with a woman's point of view. Overall, this book is great and once you read this you will want to read all the rest of the Stephanie Plum series. I definitely recommend the Stephanie Plum series to a person who is able to handle the thrills of these wonderfully well written books.
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Summary: Stephanie and Rex become homeless
Review: What's a girl to do when handcuffed to her own refrigerator? For those readers unacquainted with Stephanie Plum, she's a skip tracer, i.e. bounty hunter, working for her cousin Vinnie in Trenton, NJ. She's also a disaster magnet. So, when her latest assignment, Maxine Nowicki, who jumped bail after being charged with the theft of her estranged boyfriend's car, handcuffs Plum to the door of her own fridge, what's left to do while awaiting rescue but finish off the leftover banana cream pie, a jar of peanut butter, and a bag of baby carrots? And that's before her car explodes, her apartment is gutted by fire, and she gets raw egg in her hair. As I work my way sequentially through the Stephanie Plum series, I stand amazed at the imagination of author Janet Evanovich that continually ups the ante on the absurdity of the situations in which Stephanie finds herself and the eccentricity of the characters that gravitate to our heroine like lint to a black dress. Yet, the craziness never seems pushed or over the top, but is just Stephanie's karma in a nutty world. The continuing "male lead" in all of Plum's adventures is Joe Morelli, the rascally plain-clothes Trenton cop with whom Stephanie has a long love-hate relationship. When they were just pre-pubescent kids, the sexually precocious Joe lured Stephanie into his father's garage to play choo-choo. As teenagers, Plum ran down Morelli with the family Buick after Joe relieved Stephanie of her virginity on the floor behind the eclair counter in the pastry shop in which she worked. Yet, when Plum and her pet hamster Rex are left homeless after their apartment is torched in FOUR TO SCORE, it's the extra room in Joe's house into which Stephanie moves. Will she and Joe find True Love before they kill each other? Like its predecessors in the series, this book is exceeded in trashiness perhaps only by a lurid bodice-ripper. But, should you pick up a Stephanie Plum adventure, I virtually guarantee you a good time.
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Summary: She's the Tops!
Review: It's when I read Janet Evanovich that I appreciate how much she outshines others in the comedy-crime genre. Stephanie Plum is back on form here: droll, determined and a doll. I love her eccentric side-kicks too: the stunning (in every sense) Lula; the redoubtable, pistol-packing Grandma Masur; and this time a cross-dressing drag artist called Sally, with a nice line in code-cracking. The plot races; and it was good to see the Stephanie/Joe Morelli 'thing' take off again. I'm just glad I've been saving 'High Five', so that I still have a published treat in store!
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