Seven Up

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Summary: Plum Crazy
Review: I just finished Book 7 having read 1,4,5,and 6. While i did think that the plot was a tad tired, I just love the bizarro world Evanovich has created for these bigger than life characters to inhabit. It is our world on steroids... or worse. She doesnt take herself too seriously or worry overly about little things like reality or the need to have her characters "grow". She simply makes them hilarious. Bigger, badder and twisted to the tune of Trenton. This series is fun. End of story. "Light" reading at its finest. If u are looking for a deep introspective read, look elsewhere. The characters border on cartoonish, the situations unbelievable, and the car thing-- OMG!
Even with all that-- I still laugh out loud at least once a chapter. That alone makes this a worthwhile read. Stephanie is everything I wish I could be and everything I'm glad im not, all rolled into one neurotic bimbo. Grandma, Lula and all the other wacky people that inhabit the "burg" universe make me giggle. The Ranger/Morelli thing is just a hoot. The Tag-team romantic life Steph leads is just her style.
I found this,and all the Plum series, vastly entertaining. Are they going to change my life, cause me to have monumental insights into my character or even cause me to think overmuch about what Evanovich was trying to say? No. What they will do, however, is put a grin on my face as i close the cover.

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Summary: NOT C.J.Critt
Review: I LOVE ALL OF THE STEPHANIE PLUM NOVELS! I loved all of the unabridged Stephanie Plum audio novels read by C.J.Critt. In fact, I own them all.
BUT, Tanya Eby made this audiobook into an audio headache. I don't know why they changed a great thing... but they did. I feel ripped off.
The book itself is AWESOME though, so don't get the wrong idea that it's the material. Janet Evanovich has definately done it again. It's just that C.J. Critt made it come alive with all of the different voices. You can't tell one person from the next when Tanya Eby reads . I will not be buying future Audiobooks done by her.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I have not read any other of her books, but I was disappointed with this one. Really silly, juvenile and amateurish.

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Summary: Laughed Out Loud!
Review: This is my first Stephanie Plum book, and I listened to the unabridged audio version. In my car, laughing hysterically a lot of the time. Not having encountered the characters (or situations) before, I found them fresh and very funny. And the reader was perfect! She really enhanced the humor, I thought. I look forward to starting from the beginning and reading the whole series.

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Summary: Excellent, Entertaining
Review: A perky, young bounty hunter has a job filled with adventure and suspense, a comedic family and an exciting and *suspenseful* sex life. What more could you want? I love this book and all the Stephanie Plum Books by Janet Evanovich.

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Summary: This series needs a pick-me-up.
Review: As with all of the Stephanie Plum novels, this is a quick, easy read. There were parts that were hilariously funny, and some that made you wonder. However, there wasn't much about it to distinguish it from the others. You've got the same characters acting the same way and doing the same thing. It's still a good series, but could use some fresh blood injected into it along with a few new ideas and characters for some variation.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I listened with fascination to the previous six books read by C. J. Critt. The reading on this does not measure up at all. For example, Grandma Mazur sounds like a nice sweet little old grey haired lady, not the outrageous senior citizen we have come to love. Lula has faded into almost nothing. Let's hope that when (if) there is an eighth book that we get C. J. Critt back to read it. (This review applies to the audio cassette version.)

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Summary: A Letdown
Review: I waited with baited breath for this book and boy what a let down. The reader just does not cut it and I believe had the book been read by C.J. Critt (as the others were) it might have been so much better. I enjoyed the other 6 so much but this one was slow, contrieved and anti climatic. I hope book 8 lives up to it's six predecesors

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Summary: ...
Review: If you want to read this book, wait until it comes out in paperback... I just loved this series for the first several books, but it's gone downhill, and in truth I don't know if I'll even read "Crazy If You Pay for Eight." There is virtually no plot in Seven Up, and the tired same-old, same-old characters do little to disguise this fact. There's nothing new, including the ending, which is yet another "cliffhanger"... When the series was better, this contrivance worked, obvious and money hungry as it was. By now, however, I at least am so bored with the Stephanie-Joe-Ranger scenario that it matters not to me what they do. This series needs a major overhaul, or maybe it just needs to end. There are a few very gifted writers who can keep a series going, each book a masterpiece of depth and good, solid writing. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Ms. E. is one of these writers.

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Summary: As funny as the rest, not as good of a "mystery"
Review: This book is somewhat of a letdown after the previous 6. As a humor story, it is every bit as good. As an actual story, it is a bit weak. The love triangle is beginning to feel a bit contrived and annoying rather than maintaining tension.