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Summary: Stephanie Evanovich does it again!
Review: Someone has shot Homer Ramos in his father's office building and then set the building on fire. Trouble is, there's a security tape showing the delectable Ranger as the last person out of the building. Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum needs to find Ranger fast, for both professional and personal reasons. While Stephanie is busy looking for Ranger, her Granny Mazur moves in with her. Granny's taking driving lessons and the proud owner of a red 'Vette bought at a 'fire sale.' She's still toting her .45 in her purse and is as big a hoot as ever. Between Granny's snoring, arch-rival Joyce's hounding her, Ranger's midnight break-ins, and Morelli's proximity, Stephanie isn't getting a lot of sleep and a regular job at McDonald's is starting to look pretty good to her. To further complicate matters, Stephanie's being tailed everywhere she goes by two goons who work for a man who thinks Ranger has something that belongs to him and that Stephanie will lead him to Ranger. Lula and Connie are back in 'Hot Six', plus Bob, the dog Stephanie has inadvertently acquired. Bob is a loveable idiot who I hope sticks around. All of these volatile characters combust off the pages in an explosion of lunacy and laughs which is just sheer delight to read. I laughed out loud 'til my stomach hurt. The mystery gets solved and Stephanie escapes immolation by the seat of her pants; alas, another couple of her cars aren't so fortunate. Stephanie proves once again that she can get the job done, but her love life is as schizo as ever. Evanovich just keeps getting better and better. Bravo!
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Summary: Stephanie Plum Has More Crazies On Her Back!!
Review: Here we go again. Stephanie Plum is faced with her most daunting task yet: bring in the mysterious former Special Forces agent Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger). Ranger has taught Stephanie everything she knows about fugitive apprehension, and Stephanie knows she will be testing her skills against the master. But if she does discover where he's at, (which she does), she can't turn him in, even if he is supposedly wanted for murder.And, if this isn't enough already, her very eccentric Grandmother Mazur is crimping her sex life. Grandma Mazur can't get along so well at home with Stephanie's parents, so she moves in with Stephanie. Now Stephanie can't exactly mess around with Joe Morelli, her cop boyfriend with Grandma around. And last but not least, Stephanie has two threatening goons on her tail, and three corpses-so far-it's getting a little too hot for Stephanie as she tries to solve all these crazy dilemmas she's in. A great fun book to read!
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Summary: Stephanie's back and sassy as ever
Review: Homer Ramos has been killed and the building he was in set on fire. The accused is none other than Ranger! When Stephanie's cousin Vinnie tries to assign this FTA to Stephanie she refuses big time. No way will she even attempt to bring in Ranger. The file is then given to Stephanie's rival, Joyce Barnhardt. Stephanie has other bad guys to catch though and somehow becomes employed by Ranger. She also has two new roomates when Grandma Mazur moves in after a disagreement with Stephanie's parents, and when she is conned into "dog sitting" cop Brian Simon's dog while he's "away". The Golden Retriver, Bob, becomes part of Stephanie's wacky family, and wins the hearts of the reader. This book was awesome. Stephanie is as sassy as ever, and Grandma Mazur is as wild and loveable as expected. The addition of Bob to the mix was entertaining and made the book fun to read. There were also two new off the wall characters--Mooner and Dougie, a.k.a The Dealer. These two seemed to be molded after Beevis and Butthead. They were likable in their own odd way. And of course, no Stephanie Plum novel would be complete without the irresistable Joe Morelli and the dangerous Ranger. The plot of this story was great. It was well written and moved along at a fast and steady pace. There is enough action and laughs to keep the reader turning pages as fast as they can. The characters are all charming and quirky, if not a little (ok, maybe a lot)mixed up in the head. This just adds to the entertainment of the book and makes it more fun to read. Also, the prologue of Hot Six answers the mystery at the end of High Five. If you've read High Five and wondered about the mystery man at the end, the beginning of Hot Six will end the suspense. Hot Six is a fun, wacky, crazy, entertaining read. Packed with laughs and chills it is a book to recommend. A keeper by far.
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Summary: I Laughed So Hard, I Fell Out Of My Chair
Review: This was my first Stephanie Plum novel, and it will not be my last. In fact, I now have to go back and read them from the beginning. I was laughing so hard as I was reading this book that I fell right off of the couch and on to the floor. And you know what, I just stayed there and finished reading (I kept thinking it was probably safer for me). Anyways this book starts out with Stephanie trying to talk her frined Carol out of jumping off of a bridge. This is just the start to a funny (I mean exasperating)week for Stephanie. Her mentor Ranger is accused of murdering a crime boss and has skipped his bail. Stephanie being a bail bond anget is told to track him down (which she refuses). So, she is sent after three other people, two of which come nicely. The thrid tries to kill her multiple times. Add in a grandmother who is sick of living with Stephanie's mom, a bunch of hitmen from the crime family, some cars being blown up, and a co-worker who wants Stephanie to dog-sit and you have a teriffic receipie for disaster and adventure. I totally loved this book and would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: The long wait is over!
Review: Like almost anyone who has read any of the other Stephanie Plum books, I was agonizing over the arrival of this one - luckily, I found her late, and read the first five not to long ago, but, boy, does six months seem long with a cliffhanger like that in High Five... And Janet Evanovich does not disappoint, producing a book as funny, engaging, fun, surprising, enjoyable and likable as the first five. The book picks up exactly where the last one left off, and goes from there into another of Stephanie's chases as the 'Bounty Hunter from Hell.' As always, she picks up some 'friends' along the way, and this time her new friend contributes much to the story - somehow, Janet makes this character seem well-rounded, yet all we get is a little bit of information... how does she do this! However trite and formulaic this may sound, it's really not - somehow, it remains fresh, new and exciting. And this comes from someone who has wedged in her Evanovich books between George Eliot and Faulkner... Stephanie, Morelli and Ranger - for those who know the series - are as wonderful as ever, as are all the other and new players. Janet lets characters change without losing what made them so appealing in the first place. For anyone who has read any of Janet's book, this will be quite a fun romp, but I think having read High Five made it much more interesting since it starts at the EXACT point that the previous left off. Anyone picking up a Janet Evanovich mystery for the first time will, I think, enjoy this one as well - and perhaps be inspired to go backwards in the series. But above all, just read this book! Hey, I went from being a huge skeptic when someone lent me the series to a devoted fan in about ten pages of the first book. It can happen to anyone...
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Summary: Irresistably Fun
Review: I'm normally turned off by the fodder usually topping the bestseller charts, finding it to often be mindless, formulistic garbage like "The DaVinci Code," overhyped and poorly written. Evanovich's work, however, truly stands out as endlessly entertaining, full to the brim of original characters, snappy dialogue, bizarre adventures, and a consistently lovable heroine. Don't miss this series - you WON'T be disappointed.
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Summary: So much fun! Please keep these books coming!
Review: HOT SIX by Janet Evanovich In the sixth installment of the Stephanie Plum series, HOT SIX is yet another fun and exciting novel featuring this accident-prone bounty hunter. This time around, Grandmother Mazur has had a fight with Stephanie's father, so guess who is moving in with Stephanie? Besides dealing with Grandmother Mazur's snoring at night, Stephanie's latest assignment is to track down her old buddy Ranger who is now a fugitive with the law. She also has two bumbling idiots following her wherever she goes, thinking that she would lead them to Ranger. Morelli is of course in the picture, and things are getting hot and heavy between the two of them. And Stephanie has also temporarily acquired a huge dog that cannot seem to stop eating. I cannot express how much I enjoy this series. HOT SIX was yet another fun read and I am looking forward to the next one. Janet Evanovich, please do not stop writing these books!
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Summary: Stephanie and Grandma Mazur become roomies
Review: At the end of my review of the previous book in the Stephanie Plum series, HIGH FIVE, I wondered if author Janet Evanovich was on the verge of trying too hard with her plotting. Then, of course, there was thread left dangling on the last page. Whose name, Morelli's or Ranger's, did Stephanie pull out of the bowl in her Night of Passion Lottery? In HOT SIX, it seems to me that Evanovich is indeed pushing it. And it turns out that Joe Morelli is the one that got lucky. Plum is a bounty hunter in Trenton, NJ, employed by Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, the owner being her scummy cousin, Vinnie. Stephanie's modus operandi is either Keystone Cops or Bull-In-China-Shop, depending on her mood and the amount of junk snacks that she's consumed. The fact that she ultimately succeeds is based purely on dogged persistence and good fortune. The skeleton of the HOT SIX plot is that Vinnie tasks Plum with apprehending Ranger, his best bond enforcement agent and Stephanie's friend and frequent mentor. Ranger has skipped bail on a ridiculous concealed weapon charge - everyone carries in Trenton - and it doesn't help that the local cops want to question him about the recent murder of a crime kingpin's son. Plum wants no part of it, least of all because she hasn't the skill to nab the ex-Special Forces soldier. But, as the bodies pile up, bagging Ranger becomes the least of her worries. Don't get me wrong. HOT SIX is as funny as any previous book in the series. It's just that Janet's imagination has, in my opinion, finally gone over the top in populating the storyline with weird characters and dropping her heroine into bizarre situations. It's gotten to the point where less wackiness may be better. It's fine that her feisty Grandma Mazur, reminiscent of Sophia (Estelle Getty) of American TV's GOLDEN GIRLS sitcom, must move in with her, but not necessary that the former take driving lessons, date the ancient geezer upstairs, or purchase a red Corvette. It's not unusual that Stephanie apprehends a couple of oddball fugitives over the course of the book, but not required that one of them here be costumed as Captain Kirk at a Trekkies gathering during the takedown. And not surprisingly, Stephanie is followed by a couple of goons who also have an interest in finding Ranger. But does one of them really have to be a Pakistani emigre who, back in the old country, used to beat unruly children working in the village rug factory? What has before simply seemed to be Plum's bad karma is now too heavy a concentration of weird to be believed. Finally, the reactions of Stephanie's mother to her antics - she say's "Why me?" and makes the sign of the cross a lot- are getting old. And Stephanie's long-suffering Dad continues to be a virtual cipher. It's time both characters were fleshed out. At least Stephanie is making progress in her love life. Is that a proposal of marriage coming from Morelli at the book's end? You think? After finishing this review, I'm off to purchase SEVEN UP.
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Summary: Ranger = HOTT!
Review: Ranger is FTA!! Hehe, and Stephanie just keeps on making the readers crack up!
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Summary: This one burns up the pages!
Review: This book is so hot, you burn your fingers while you turn the pages. Stephanie is out dealing with the dregs of society while she tries to bring in her bond jumpers. But in this one she's got two new roommates. Grandma Mazur has moved in with her and she's acquired a part Golden Retriever dog called Bob. Stephanie's mentor and friend Ranger is in trouble in this one. It appears that he was seen leaving the scene of a fire where a corpse that had been shot was found. Stephanie's boss Vince wants him brought in, but Steph can't convince herself that Ranger could possibly have killed someone, and like she says, "he's smoke", so how could she catch him. But she tries to help him and by doing so gets involved in a mafia gang turf war that almost costs her her life. This book rollicks through to the conclusion like only Evanovich can. It's unputdownable, and the best in the series so far.
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