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Summary: Hot Six
Review: I saw the book, went to the library and was told to read these books in order. I was so happy that the librarian went against policy and found One for the Money. Went home thinking it would be a fast read since I wanted to buy Hot Six. Wrong. How do you read while crying of laughter? Through the tears, I found a good plot and mystery that followed through and left no loose ends. All the books have followed the lead of the first book. I am surprised Janet Evanovich din't go for it and call the book Hot Sex. I could see her doing it though Stephanie Plum does have her morals and they pay off, I think. Book seven will give the clue or answer. I must admit I do understand the profession she has stumbled into and she is perfect for the part. At least she is very honest about her world of reality due to her background. Read the first and definitly read HOT SIX! Read all six.
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Summary: Fast and Funny
Review: This is my first Janet Evanovich book but not my last. Pure screwball fun, if over the top. If you can completely suspend your disbelief, it's worth taking a trip into Stephanie's universe.
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Summary: Best Female Detective of the Decade
Review: Do you know how difficult it is to find contemporary female detectives who aren't overshadowed by romantic love interests, lesbian relations, high-tech computers/detection, inaccurate historical settings etc? Writers seem to change about their fifth novel--not so Evanovich--she just keeps churning out high quality Steph Plum stories.I came across these when seeking texts for my contemp fiction class. I rejected the expected ones for detective fiction because they lacked some of the exuberance of what I feel is best in contemporary fiction. Evanovich created the perfect 90s female--youngish, single-ish, capable-ish, attractive-ish--Steph is never superwoman or frustratingly incompetent.... Read them in order--I started with _High Five_ and thought the romance got in the way. Then I went back to _One_ --ahhh, I got it. Zany family, weird assortment of characters, this series *IS* laugh out loud funny--but for those who like their detective fiction pure ratiocination, then perhaps this is not the series of them.
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Summary: Something to remember when reading Evanovich
Review: Don't buy Evanovich when you're after a nail-biting, logical, dark, deep, keeping-you-up-all-night thriller. Don't read Plum when you want something that makes sense, no loose ends, all tied up nicely. Buy her when you care about laughing-out-loud, read her when you like a hilarious character. She's top of line when it comes to the absurd (Grandma Mazur is only one "item" to mention). Maybe this series can't go on much longer without getting repetetive and ridiculous, but I'm sure Ms Evanovich will come up with something new and equally entertaining! Just one thing - DON'T ever make it a movie! Leave it to our imagination! I'm sure we all know how Ranger and Morelli just HAVE to look like in our (okay - female!) minds. And I just can't think of any actor playing Rex...
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Summary: Laughing out loud
Review: I read a lot and when I found the first one of this series, I had to have the others. Well, they were all great but this one is something else. I have not had to hold in the belly laughs for ages. I mean when you get older you can read humor without it taking control. But there are places in this book where there was absolutely no way to keep from an absolute belly laugh. So I don't recommend this book for a plane unless you want the extra leg room when folks get up and move away from that giggling person who is going to explode from fighting to keep it in. Whatever you do don't miss it though. When is the next one?
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Summary: Trenton's Answer to Buffy
Review: Hot Six is quintessential Evanovich. From the first moments spent talking a friend out of jumping off a bridge by pointing out that it would ruin her hair to her final confrontation with her cop boyfriend's psychic grandmother, Stephanie ricochets from adventure to adventure. When her friend/mentor Ranger jumps bail to avoid being questioned on a murder rap, Stephanie comes to the rescue. She is aided by Dougie the Dealer, Lulu the retired ho', her own gun toting grandmother, and a bewildering cast of crazies as she takes on a group of criminals that are only slightly less inept than Stephanie herself. If you think that humorous crime novels are a limited genre, prepare for an embarassment of riches. Only in an Evanovich novel will you find such moments as the dog poop car bomb or the stiff in the lounge chair. The author seems to have an unlimited supply of novel twists and turns. So if you are prepared to faced such agonizing questions as 'what to do with a dog that eats everything' and 'will Joe Morelli ever have sex again' you are ready for Hot Six. Actually, you think you are ready for Hot Six. Maybe you should have a cold shower first!!
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Summary: Better than five
Review: What makes a good detective thriller? Agatha Christie wrote books filled by dull cardboard characters in which the plot and the revelation of who had done it were paramount. Raymond Chandler wrote gritty and what at the time seemed realistic novels in which atmosphere was everything. Plot was nothing to Chandler at the end there would be ends hanging everywhere and not a lot of it made sense. Janet Evanovich in more in the Chandler class although her main character Stephanie Plum is light years away from Christopher Marlowe. Stephanie Plum lost her job, selling women's underwear and became a bounty hunter. She lives in a working class neighbourhood, and there are a number of characters who appear in every book. There is the good looking Italian cop Morelli who she grew up with and has a on again off again affiar. There is the mysterious and handsome Hispanic Ranger who sometimes works with her and other times fills in plot holes. There is also Stephanie's grandmother who is the comic relief. In Hot Six Ranger is wanted for murder and Stephanie has to track him down. She is followed by two inept thugs and she also has to capture a homicidal maniac. The book however moves more slowly than it sounds. You read he first sixty pages and you know what everyone is wearing and what cars they are driving. A plot starts to intrude but is not so noticeable that it interferes with the descriptions of the food the characters eat their sexual longings and the endless changes of clothes. The Evnovich's main strength is her comic writing. The book moves along from one comic scene to another until at last all the plot ends are tied together. Some people found this book a little repetitive and similar to the previous ones in the series. I actually enjoyed it a bit more and it seems that Evanovich is becoming more comfortable with her various comic inventions and her building up a sense of place and character. Short entertaining and easy to read.
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Summary: Evanovich is amazing!
Review: How does she keep them coming? Absurd situations, snappy one-liners, bizarre characters, and all kinds of other goodies abound in this book. I suppose it would be possible to get tired of seeing Stephanie Plum's car get destroyed, or watching the characters try to outdo each other in firepower, but in fact these have become trademarks, and I would be disappointed not to see them. Each new confrontation or car fire seems more hilarious than the last, like jokes that become funnier with each retelling. Evanovich writes slapstick; I hate slapstick on the stage, but I love it on the page. "Hot Six" is so irresistible that I've had to share it, reading it aloud to my husband (with the door closed so that the children don't hear the language!). Do yourself and your funny bone a favor. Read this book and the five that precede it. You won't regret it, although you may notice a temporary increase in socially unacceptable words.
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Summary: Laugh-out-loud hilarious!
Review: This is the funniest Stephanie Plum mystery ever! I kept laughing out loud (good thing I was reading it at home and not on the bus!) Although I figured out pretty early on what was happening in the plot, the wacky characters were so funny, the dialogue so peppy, the situations so very fast and breaking in-your-face, that the story just marched on briskly to an ending that came much too soon. I saw a movie called Snatch yesterday, and the two dumb hired guns threatening our Steph, Habib and Mitchell, could have stepped out of the book and into that movie. Best line: in thinking about Habib and his many digressions on what the men in his Pakistan village would do to independent women like Stephanie, she muses that on second thought, she didn't think Habib came from a village in Pakistan, but directly from Hell. New to this book are the two stoners, The Mooner and Dougie, and Carol Zabo, who makes a habit of threatening to jump off bridges. The old gang, though, is back in full force, esp. my favorite, the plus-size ex-'ho, Lula, the slimy Vinny Plum, Joyce Barnhardt, bounty-hunter-wannabe (who gets a delicious, delicious come-uppance!), and the two sexiest men in popular fiction, cop Joe Morelli and the enigmatic Ranger. Stephanie's cup runneth over with these two hunks to play with :) And how could I have forgotten Bob, the dog, whose digestive processes save Stephanie at a pivotal point in the story? (How Stephanie winds up a dog-owner is also very funny.) Love it, love it, love it! Janet Evanovich, you are a treasure!
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Summary: A Peach of a Plum
Review: No mystery author has yet to give zits quite the zest that Janet Evanovich has in "Hot Six." "Six" is the latest in Evanovich's oft-zany, yet startlingly real-world-in-many-ways, detective series featuring the somewhat successful Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter. Plum #6 is also the sweetest fruit produced by Evanovich since we first met Steph, Grandma and the gang in "One For The Money," which actually ranks just below "Hot Six" in quality. A mystery writer with only one protagonist (as opposed to Agatha Christie, for example)must meet at least two difficult standards on which the bar gets raised for each new book. Readers want the feel of familiarity, of "being family," but need more than nuturing. Readers need the satisfaction of a sustainable product, one in which the protagonist grows as a "person" or her accompanying cast of characters grows, changes, becomes more "real," whatever. Example -- Sara Paretsky, one of the genre's crown princesses, is facing a lack of character development in detective V.I. Warshawski, her protagonist. In the past Paretsky has gotten around this problem by enriching the supporting cast including her friend the doctor and her neighbor with whom she shares dogs. Example -- Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone is a well-developed character. And Muller clearly is also accruing some sweat equity by enriching the cast, including chronicling the evolution of the "All Souls Legal Cooperative" as it enters the 21st Century and by introducing new characters such as the latest love interest. "High Five" had me worried that Evanovich was burning out. Steph's "people" were more interesting and multi-dimensional than Steph. "Hot Six" shows every sign that Evanovich has recognized the problem and set about rectifying it. She took what could have been a mystery writer's deadly melanoma and turned it around with the help of a brilliantly written zit. And she remains the only writer who has ever made me want to visit Trenton
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