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Summary: This Seven Up is flat
Review: Easy read but nothing new, not as funny or sexy as her previous work. The big draw back was the lack of dialogue to move the story, in the previous 6 Evanovich's her use of dialogue has been fantastic. This book is much more narrative and looses the depth of characters. The Joe/Stephanie on-off again theme, Ranger should she or not, and space cadet pot heads were done better in the previous books so try to borrow it instead of buying. And spend your money on one of her earlier works.
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Summary: Seven Up is alright!
Review: Evanovich does it again in this seventh installment of her Stephanie Plum series. As usual, fast-talking Stephanie bites off more than she can chew when she has to bring in Eddie DeChooch. She's got Joyce on her tail, mob guys on her tail, and Joe Morelli AND Ranger on her tail (though they're the only two who don't want to do her bodily harm). Of course there's a brand new car which must be disposed of. This novel was as enjoyable as the previous six, though the cliffhanger endings are starting to kill me. If you are looking for a light read with New Jersey attitude, pick this up.
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Summary: Painful experience
Review: I loved Janet's previous six audio books so very much, I bought them. I am now in the process of replacing my cassettes with CDs as I have listened to them over and over and over and they are wearing out.That being said, I HATED SEVEN UP and will not buy it. I regret that I cannot rate this less than one star (like maybe a negative five stars). It was boring and actually painful to listen to. Words and names were midpronounced as compared to previous books. The reader was AWFUL!! Janet, what happended? Have you lost your pizazz? I hope not. I live for your next releases. Please, go back to the previous readers (Lori Petty or Debbie Mazar). I don't know who CJ Critt is (I am sure she is a fine person), but she does not convey the Stephanie Plum we all know and adore.
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Summary: Bad Listening
Review: I love all Janet's Stephanie Plum books. I have read them several times. I have listened to the audios more than once when I run out of new audios. I prefer unabridged audios. I very much prefer a company, which shall go unnamed, that is not releasing an unabridged audio copy of this book. The much lauded narrator, C.J. Critt, of the unabriged audios is very much missed.
I am saying all this to say basically, that this is not a put down of the book itself, but the production of the audio. I have listened to a lot of audios, both good and bad, over the years. Like a really horrible date, I was trying to remember when I'd had a worse experience. I still cannot think that I have had a worse audio experience than this performance gave me.
I had already seen the bad reviews of this audio, both on Amazon and on the author's official website. I already knew the fans were not going to get the usual reader from the company that has done the other six books. But I thought, how bad could it possibly be? Well....
The production of this audio is so bad, words pale. One very obvious thing is that the reader was apparently told to clip along at a very fast pace. I can picture the director telling her she gets bonus if she gets the whole book on less than six tapes-which she did. Compare that to the other brand's eight to nine tapes and you will see the big huge difference. It is literally hard to follows some of the dialogue because she is reading so blasted fast. No dramatic pauses. No deliberation of words is used. Another bad thing that compares horribly with the other unabridged audios is that the changes of voice for different characters is way off the beam. Imagine if you will an average woman's voice used for all the female characters. No real changes are made among the female characters. Imagine if you will the same female voice "fake deepened" for the men. This would be what I as a non-actor person would do for a guy's voice. But to hear this on an audio tape is beyond distracting. I cannot believe it was deliberately done for an audio they actually intended to sell!! What were they thinking?
The reader also uses a fake New Jersey accent on just certain words, which you would think would work given that it is set in New Jersey. Sometimes it was okay to hear "cah" for car and "pahk" for park and other times it was very distracting.
My final analysis is to recommend you READ the book; but save yourself the money and the angst and don't LISTEN to the book.
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Summary: Just Okay
Review: Let me say first off that I love this series and will always be interested in Stephanie Plum's wacky life. However this wasn't the strongest book in the series. Some of the situations such as the Joyce Barnhart stun gun thing are getting really old! Even Grandma Mazur's getting to be a bit tiresome. I'd be interested to know more about some of the other characters like Lula and Ranger and I hope Evanovich will give us something more in depth and funny next time around. She seems to be relying on the same old situations and they're wearing a little thin.
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Summary: Rate the book not the Reader ?
Review: Well, I thought about this a couple of times... How to review a book I loved. Okay, I loved the book in Hardcover. Stephanie is evolving and her life is it's usual topsy turvy roller coaster. The tension is great between Stephanie, Ranger and Joe Morelli. Maybe the story is typical in the sense that Stephanie is searching for someone she can't find so easily and bumbles around trying to catch the guy, so what, I love her for it. Janet writes them well enough that like it or not I can imagine myself there in the scene as it is happening. However, this AUDIO VERSION with TANYA EBY was a pitiful audio production of a book that deserved much more from an audio performance. Tanya Eby's performance took so much away from this book. Janet Evanovich's previous books have been read by a variety of readers from Lori Petty (abridged), Debi Mazar (abridged), Lorelie King(unabridged) and CJ Critt (unabridged through Recordedbooks.com). Out of the three CJ CRITT is fantastic and has my vote for any future performances of the Stephanie Plum series. I can not say enough about how disappointed I was in Tanya Eby's performance of this book, but don't let that stop you from reading this book because the series is a great deal of fun and SEVEN UP is one of my favorites and hopefully you'll enjoy it as well. I'll tell you I was so desperate to find out if I was in a nightmare in regards to the narrator I wrote the Brilliance Audio who produced the book. The answer I got from them was that No they weren't going to re-record the book that unlike me many people enjoyed the audio version. Not me my ears were bleeding afterwards. I wish as fans we had some say in who recorded the books CJ would be my choice, but anyone other than Tanya Eby would be a step up. It only proves that these companies no longer care about the quality, but how fast they can get it out and sold. I'd rather wait for Recorded Books quality version than the poor substitute I was sold.
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Summary: Won't Let You Down If you Like "Stephanie Plum"
Review: The Stephanie Plum series are so funny. My husband and I both enjoy these books and Seven Up is just as good as the rest. It is a great Summer Read. We read it in one day while on vacation, it was a fabulous relaxing form of entertainment. Stephanie, Granda Mazur, Ranger and Joe Morelli are at their best.
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Summary: Evanovich does it again.
Review: I love Stephanie Plum. She makes me laugh even when I'm having a horrible day (She's usually having a worse one)! I love her crazy grandmother and this book even introduces a crazy sister. The former "perfect sister" is now in the middle of a divorce/sexual identity crisis that makes Stephanie look stable. Stephanie doesn't know what she wants and she doesn't know how to set goals, time manage, cook, create a stable relationship, career plan, or anything else that so many of us are trying to exceed at. I love her, I think she's my alter ego.
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Summary: Too Funny
Review: I think the Evonovich novels are a riot. They take you on a wild romp through the streets with Evonovich's hero- Stephanie Plum. From grandmothers and dysfunctional families to funerals to boyfriends, these are hands down, some of the funniest books I have read. ANXIOUSLY awaiting number 8 (and more).
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Summary: Seven Up is Down
Review: This audiobook is not up to Janet Evanovitch's standard. I also did not like the reader.
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