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Summary: Stephanie is just Plum fun!
Review: I came late to this series, but I have enjoyed every minute of catching up. The Stephanie Plum/Joe Morelli relationship allows for more comic riffs in this book, as the various members of the Morelli clan run through pre-wedding rituals. The usual cast of characters (and they are, indeed, "characters") is joined by a new gem: Sally Sweet, the cross dressing "regional" rock star. It's not often that I laugh out loud while reading, but Janet Evanovich has me to the point where I have to read about Stephanie's exploits at an earlier hour because I'm waking other family members! This is a good fun romp through the wilds of Trenton. Do yourself a favor and join it.
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Summary: The plucky Plum and Big Blue are back...
Review: ...and they brought friends, including everybody's favorite 250-plus pound ex-hooker, Lula, and a codebreaking drag queen named Sally Sweet, brought in to help bounty hunter Stephanie Plum get her man, or rather, woman.Maxine, Stephanie's lastest bounty assignment, is a car theft skip which should be a simple pickup. Instead, Stephanie is subjected to a torturous scavenger hunt with the skip's ex-boyfriend, who accounts for 90% of the "torture" (mentally, anyway), and to some competition from her mortal enemy, Joyce Barnhardt. So now Stephanie has to get to Maxine, who knows more about other crimes than she wishes to reveal, before Joyce does, and before the Reaper gets to Stephanie. Four is funnier, and faster-paced than its predecessor. When Joe and Stephanie get together, it gets hot, too.
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Summary: Tee Hee, Stephanie moves into Joe's House.
Review: And don't you think that Joe Morelli's Italian mother doesn't know what's going on! Oh, my gosh! This is another great story by Janet Evanovich. Why do we read? Well, in this house, the books are hard to hold still. The stories are enjoyable, a breeze to read, funny, and a great way to lighten up life. Poor Stephanie goes into it swinging with high humor. She confronts the sleeze, Barnardt who did it with Stephanie's ex-hubby, and now wants to out-do Stephanie in Bounty-hunting. yeah right. She meets Joe Morelli's Italian relatives. Someone's picking on her cars again. Four To SCORE? A-plus!
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Summary: Stephanie's Got It Goin' ON!
Review: Another super Stephanie Plum book. Action, romance, ups, downs - not much more to ask for. Enjoy!
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Summary: Drag Queens, Counterfeiters, Fire Bombs, Jealousy, and SEX!
Review: Janet Evanovich has written her wackiest book yet. Some of the highlights include a coded set of mystery clues followed by a close encounter ending, a transvestite band, a jealous lover, a woman scorned, progress in the budding Morelli-Plum relationship, and torture. And those are just some of the complications. Each amazing complication is done with the maximum humor imaginable! The Sally Sweet character is probably her most memorable character. Old nemesis Joyce Barnhardt does favors for Cousin Vinny and gets to compete with Stephanie Plum for a job bringing in Maxine Nowicki. As usual, Stephanie can find Maxine, but has a hard time apprehending her. In the meantime, someone's making threats, pouring gasoline over her car, and firebombing wherever she lives. The people she contacts to find Maxine keep turning up with strange wounds, and are very silent about Maxine's whereabouts. She seems to hit cold trail after cold trail. You should be able to solve the mystery about half way through. This was one of Evanovich's more transparent efforts. But the mystery is really beside the point. To focus on that would be like studying history instead of partying during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The story of Stephanie Plum and her relationship to the other characters are where you'll find the attraction in this book. The scenes, the set-ups, and the dialogue are marvelous. If you have a friend who is also reading the series, you'll be trading lines before you're done with this book. After you have read and enjoyed this book, consider how little straight comedy is written now in fiction form. Almost all of it is in the context of crime and mystery novels. What does that say about our tastes and society's state? What would a non-bounty hunting, funny Stephanie Plum be like? I suspect she could be just as funny. In many ways, she is the Lucille Ball of the 1996-2000 period. Overcome your stalled thinking about how much fun a book can be with this one!
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Summary: A (Lucille) Ball!
Review: Janet Evanovich's "bounty hunter from hell" is back! Trenton, New Jersey's much put-upon Stephanie Plum has managed to burn down a funeral home and have three of her cars blown up in only a few years of work. In a state where seemingly everyone is "armed to the teeth for no good reason," people hate or disparage Plum for what she does. Even her parents feel that way: Why isn't she married already, or at least doing respectable work?
Stephanie's got two sidekicks now: a heavy metal cross-dresser and Lula, a black ex-hooker. With their help, Stephanie blunders her way through another skip trace. En route, she exhibits the funky chic of "Flashdance" and the wacky pratfalls of "I love Lucy." Of course her love interest/part-time nemesis is back: Joe Morelli, a sexy cop who "could look at water and make it boil." Stephanie's gun-crazy grandmother is also along for the ride amid plenty of high-speed comic mayhem. Go, Girl!
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Summary: Expect to laugh out loud!
Review: I never would have picked this book up on my own. A friend gave it to me and said it was funny and a good beach book. Turns out, I loved it! The book is an easy read, and very funny. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to be entertained.
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Summary: Guaranteed giggles
Review: Stephanie Plum, Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, smart mouth bounty hunter is back and better than ever. This time she's searching for a revenge-seeking waitress who has skipped bail. Stephanie's on the job and determined to nab her woman. As with all the other Stephanie Plum thrillers, Janet Evanovich delivers with lots of laughs and many colorful characters. Not to mention a little romance. Highly recommended.
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Summary: I wasn't disappointed.
Review: I've read each book in this series so far and have yet to be disappointed. Each has been as terrific as the next. The only time I'll have a problem is if the series ends.
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Summary: Four to Score...A Real Winner
Review: Stephanie's back and better than ever with Four to Score, a funny, sexy romp through Trenton, New Jersey. Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter from hell, is on the trail of Maxine Nowicki, who forgot about her court appearance and jumped bail. In the process of tracking Maxine down, she uncovers murderers, counterfeiters and a fire bomber. Unfortunately, Stephanie's apartment is at the top of the fire bomber's hit list and she moves in with Joe Morelli. Now the fun really begins. As always, Ms Evanovich fills her story with quirky, wacky characters that just add to the fun and we get to see a lot more of the Plum and Morelli families. The writing is smart and down to earth and Ms Evanovich has a wonderful ear for dialogue. You'll laugh out loud at the antics of this fine cast. Do yourself a favor, start with One for the Money and read the whole series. Ms Evanovich doesn't disappoint.
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