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High Five

High Five

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Fabulous and Funny Read!
Review: "High Five" by Janet Evanovich gets a High Five Stars from me! This fifth instalment in the uproariously funny Stephanie Plum series may just be the best yet. A well-written and suspenseful mystery is blended perfectly with Stephanie's hilarious misadventures to create an all-around wonderful read.

"High Five" begins with Stephanie, Trenton's "bombshell bounty hunter", in the midst of a financial depression. She is not making nearly enough money picking up FTA's to make rent and she needs to find a solution fast. It's not a whole lot of use to Stephanie when her family enlists her help to find her missing Uncle Fred the cheapskate, because there's no bond money involved when and if she does find him. But family duties cannot be ignored, so Stephanie sets to work trying to find out what happened to Uncle Fred, and why he disappeared on his way to the garbage company to settle a dispute over $2. Right at the start her investigation, Stephanie comes across some disturbing photos of body parts in garbage bags found in Uncle Fred's desk, which makes it clear that Fred had become involved in something very nasty.

But searching for Uncle Fred won't pay Stephanie's rent and when she turns to her mentor and fellow bounty hunter Ranger for help, he hires her as part of Rangeman Enterprises. This leads Stephanie to a string of disastrous and dangerous jobs of dubious legal validity that will have readers laughing out loud. Add to that a very small FTA named Randy Briggs who wants nothing to do with being brought back into the system and you have the recipe for a hilarious read.

But "High Five" has a dark edge to it as well. Benito Ramirez, the sociopathic boxer with a penchant for mutilating women who stalked Stephanie in "One for the Money", is out of jail and back to harassing poor Stephanie, who is justifiably terrified. On top of that, a series of mysterious murders all related to Uncle Fred's garbage company and a bomb planted on Stephanie's car, lead Stephanie to the conclusion that she is in the middle of something very serious, and that someone besides Ramirez wants her dead. Evanovich skilfully builds the suspense, and readers will be swept along with the intriguing mystery to a satisfying conclusion.

All the characters we have grown to know and love throughout the series are back and better than ever in "High Five". Gun-toting Grandma Mazur and 200+ lb ex-hooker Lula are guaranteed to keep readers laughing, while the sexual tension between Stephanie and the two men in her life, sexy vice cop Joe Morelli and enigmatic bounty hunter Ranger, is sure to tantalize and fascinate readers.

You just cannot miss with "High Five". Evanovich has crafted an enticing and exciting tale that will keep readers captivated and will leave them begging for more. It is downright impossible to dislike the intrepid Stephanie Plum, whose unique, sassy, and witty point of view makes this series so great. "High Five" comes very highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: CAPTIVATING
Review: Just when I thought the book series was getting a little repetitious with cars blowing up, Ramirez returning, and a lot of dead bodies ... I found myself captivated once again. Evanovich did it again ... she grabbed me and kept me turning page after page. As I was reading the last line of the last page my mouth dropped open and I heard myself say out loud "NO!"

What a wonderful series to read. You will never want for more colorful chartacters, romance, and laughter as Stephanie Plum "Bounty Hunter" coninues her saga. Her love interest with Moralli is a continuing thread throughtout the series BUT in this book we learn of a new possibility ... could there be someone else in Stephanie's life? Well, I for one can't wait to find out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Stepanie Plum is everyone's favorite bounty hunter
Review: Get ready to hold on Stephanie Plum is back and she is funnier and still as crazy as she always has been. This time instead of tracking down a FTA she is looking for her Uncle Fred.

When she first gets asked to look for Uncle Fred she thinks this will be a simple case that she will figure out and find Uncle Fred and get back to looking FTA's. But she is wrong. During her look for Fred she runs across Ramieriz again she is worried that he will try and hurt her again. She also goes on one of her FTA runs and comes across a angry little man Briggs who is out to make Stephanies life a living nightmare.

Stephanie is also trying to pick up some side work and agrees to work with Ranger and do some work for him, but while doing this she starts to feel an attaction to Ranger and is confused because she still has feelings for Morelli.

Overall this was another great Stephanie Plum book and I can't wait to read the next few books about Stephanie and her gang of friends.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another fun one
Review: Another installment in a cute, fun series. Stephanie Plum is as much herself as always. A quick, fun read perfect for a weekend at the beach. Enjoy!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not literature, but who cares?
Review: This is by far the most fun I've had reading a mystery series. Stephanie Plum is a wisecracking bounty hunter with a hamster, a spunky grandmother, and two men to choose from. Evanovich sense of place and time is terrific, her characterizations are individual, and her pace is quick.

She has said that she writes for people who don't have much time to read and if she can write on command like that, more power to her. She does not pretend to be writing literature, but that has its place, and so does this. I call it fluff, but in a good way. It's mindless fun, something you don't have to think about. And sometimes that exactly what I want.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wicked!!!
Review: Only once in a while do we get a book filled with thrills and laughters to satisfy even the most cold-hearted of people. Janet Evanovich not only does it with her 5th installment of the Stephanie Plum series, but with all of her books. This one being the last that i read and so far the funniest. It is just filled with mystery and quirky characters and enough laughs to keep you with a smile across your face during the whole book. Read this book

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Ho-hum
Review: I'm going against the tide here but at least its an honest opinion:- This one's a dud, folks.

In book 5, the mystery gives way to the romance. In fact, it gives a whole lot of way! Female readers will enjoy this book but the discerning crime-fiction fan probably wont (no matter what their gender).

If you already have the first four books and must have this one in your collection, then buy it. Its your money. But if you dont mind, then skip it. Its a dud. Unless of course if you enjoy reading romance novels pretending to be mystery novels.

The two stars are for Grandma Mazur. Otherwise, I'd give it just one star.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A fantastic demonstration of Janet's talent
Review: After absolutely loving the wonderful first book in this series, _One for the Money,_ I found the others somewhat lacking; they were still entertaining for the most part, but they lacked the same spark and didn't draw me in as fully as the first book. _High Five_, however, is fantastic!

Stephanie's inner diaglogue is as entertaining as ever, and the plot pulled me along right to the end. There are very few dull moments in the book, and the heat between Morelli and Stephanie is back, with the pleasant addition of some romantic interest from Ranger as well. Morelli's jealousy of this is really charming.

Stephanie's luck with vehicles holds in _High Five_, although it's taken a different tack; rather than having her cars sputter and smoke to a painful death, they are blown up and stolen. She has an FTA take up resident in her apartment, Ramirez the homicidal boxer is back, and her mother frets in the kitchen as usual, as Stephanie agrees to some side jobs working for Ranger that put her in even more interesting situations than usual.

A very quick and entertaining read. I highly recommend _High Five_.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another high 5 stars!
Review: I know Evanovich will likely get tired of Plum novels before her fans do, but in the mean time she doesn't disappoint us. I've just recently become interested in crime novels, so I bounce back and forth between Evanovich and other crime novel authors. However, the others fall short without the delightful element of humor I get from JE's Plum series. The little person in this one worked so well, I had hoped to see him again. Oh, well.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: HIGH FIVE WAS A LITTLE LOW!!!!
Review: Have read these in order and thought this one was a little slow in places. Thought it would just drag through many pages. Stephene is her usual self, trying to do her job. Of course, Mike, Lulu, Ranger and company make for good stuff. The question starts with where is Uncle Fred? He has disappeared and nobody knows what happened to him and no one really seems to care. Pictures are found with body parts in them, could Fred be part of this? There are the comic sections with Grandma and her funeral home visits and the elderly people in Stephenes apartment who are packing, guns that is. Cars get stolen, bombed and general mayhem. All in all a pretty good read.


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