Seven Up

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Summary: Seven is one too much
Review: Puhleeeeze. Okay the book is somewhat humerous and halfway well written, but come on now. Just give me one scene that is halfway believable. I like my fluffy summer reading junk too, but this one stinks like Jersey. So enjoy it before you tire of it and also enjoy 8, 9 10..... and so on.You will make the next ones #1 anyway before reading Page 1 or 2 or 3......

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Summary: Please find a new reader!!!!
Review: I started this series at the end, I listened to 8 first. I hunted down all of the audio cassettes. I think the readers hepled me imagine that sassy italian Jersey girl. I fell in love with the humor and mishaps that seem to always find Stephanie. Joe Morelli is to die for, Ranger is definately a hot cookie. I hated the reader, Tonya Eby in Seven Up. Ugh! I feel as though the whole Jersey persona was gone. Please dont listen, get a paperback, its cheaper and you will enjoy the story alot more.

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Summary: Disappointed and worried....
Review: I just finished Seven Up and have to admit I am a little worried to read the next book 8. I enjoyed Stephanie and Joe Morelli so much, they have their problems but are wonderful together. A very playful, funny, sexy couple!! I want more of them! The returning characters were wonderful with the addition of Stephanie's sister and neices. The plot again was zany and unrealistically fun. The only problem I had with this book 7 was Ranger. I have come to dislike this character. First he was a sexy man of mystery that was tempting yet unreachable to Stephanie, which was intriguing. But in this book he becomes overbearing, demanding, and controlling. And Stephanie accuses Joe of this? PLEASE!!! Ranger makes Stephanie a proposition of sleeping with him in order to... What kind of over powering man is that, and what kind of whimp has Stephanie become to take that. The next book better not have him collecting on this debt or it will really distroy what Janet has built in the charater of Ranger, and the love potential for Joe and Stephanie. Let's hope that Stephanie has more pride and self respect then to let Ranger collect. Or that will take away from a wonderful 7 book sexual build up of Joe and Stephanie, and their love story! Bring back the old lovable Ranger or loss him!!!

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Summary: SEVEN UP
Review: S tephanie Plum returns in yet another humorous mystery
E ddie DeChooch is the object of her attention this time.
V aliently evading capture is a variety of creative ways.
E vanovich prvides us with the usual mayhem we've come to love.
N ow it's a question of who will win the heart of Stephanie

U ncertainty abounds. Will it be Morelli or Ranger?
P lum's a peach but Grandma Mazur's a gem.

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Summary: More Plum pits
Review: OK, Evanovich is kind of a one-trick pony. Her protagonist, Stephanie Plum is about the most unlikely bounty hunter you can imagine, and her all-to-human errors in her job performance are completely predictable if you have read any of the previous Plum novels. Yet, I keep buying the books and reading them as I eat potato chips. You can't eat just one, even thought they all taste alike. At least I did wait for the paperback edition of this one.

In this episode, Plum is after old Eddie DeChooch who is in trouble himself for having stolen the heart from the corpse of a mafia-type. The old guy keeps escaping Stephanie's inept clutches, but Stephanie is intrepid in the hunt. Her surrounding cast -- Vinnie, Lula, Ranger, Morelli and the lovable Grandma Mazur are always amusing. And in this novel we meet her perfect sister for the first time. You'll learn more of her in "Hard Eight" now in hardback.

It's funny fluff!

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Summary: COULDN'T STAND THE AUDIO READER
Review: First of all, I want to make it clear that I love Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. They are unlike any series I have ever read & strongly recommend them.

I loved Lori Petty's performance in the first few abridged audiobooks. Then, they switched to Debi Mazar as the reader for the 4th-6th abridged audiobooks. The voices of Lori Petty & Debi Mazar are very different, but I still was able to enjoy their individual performances. (I think that, if I was forced to choose, I would probably choose Mazar's style & performance over Petty's. But, Lori Petty comes in a decent second-place.)

With SEVEN UP, a new audiobook reader is once again introduced, Tanya Eby. After the fantastic performances I was used to from Petty & Mazar, I couldn't stomach what I heard during the first tape of SEVEN UP. I tried to get used to the new reader, but as soon as I heard her try to differentiate between the characters' voices (and between male & female voices), I knew this was a lost cause.

I popped the tape out less than 1/4 of the way through that 1st side. I ended up buying the paperback version of the book and was much more content that way. I may not have been able to listen to it in the car, but I still got to read another great Stephanie Plum mystery in the end.

I wish the publisher would have had one reader do the abridged version of this book, and a different one do the unabridged. That way, if we discovered we did not like one reader's performance, we could still possibly try the other. Just a suggestion to anyone in power at the publishing house.

So, if you are deeply attached to either/both of Lori Petty and Debi Mazar's characterizations of Stephanie Plum and everyone in her life, I recommend that you DO NOT buy the audio version of this book. Buy the hardcover or paperback for a more satisfying Stephanie Plum experience.

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Summary: 7-UP..the "un"book, unpredictable, unstoppable, ........
Review: Janet Evanovich's seventh Stephanie Plum novel is as fun to read as the rest of the series. In this story, Stephanie is trying to bring in Eddie DeChooch, an elderly "former" mobster, who is going through a low phase in his life. Unfortunately for Stephanie, DeChooch is still wiley and unpredictable, as well as dangerous no matter his age. Along the way, a dead woman shows up in DeChooch's garage, an evil eyed woman appears, Mooner and Dougie disappear, there is a missing human heart...somewhere and Stephanie's and Joe Morelli's wedding plans get put into motion!! The date, the wedding gown and the Hall are all in place. Meanwhile Ranger is making interesting overtures......
The characters are as outrageous as ever, female mud wrestlers, crazed mob wife, Bob the dog, Stephanie's "perfect" sister and her two "perfect" daughters....not to mention Grandma Mazur and her preoccupation with everything sexual, alien or just plain wierd!!!
If you have enjoyed the last six Plum novels you will enjoy this one!If you are looking for a change in Stephanie's life and an everyday normalcy to set in while she matures and becomes a Burg wife, you won't find it here, but then who really wants her to do those things, NOT ME!!! I am looking forward to the next book, HARD EIGHT!!! Long may Evanovich write, and long may Stephanie Plum hunt.................

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Summary: A really fun read
Review: I always like the impish quality of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum. In any other venue she would be an aggravating ditz, but Evanovich manages to give her a down to earth quality that makes her an enjoyable character. I have read all the numbered Plum series, and each gets better than the last. My favorite character is the Grandma.

If you expect any insight, philosophical content and/or deep plot line, you shouldn't bother. This is just frivolous fun.

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Summary: Thoroughly Wonderful Mind Candy
Review: I grabbed this book at the airport, having read no prior Stephanie Plum novels. It was a day I expected to spend six hours in the air and several standing in lines. I had had no sleep the previous night. I felt like my only cerebral activity was sustained by caffeine.

Seven Up was the perfect book at the perfect time. Quirky characters, unusual situations, a streak of self-conscious "naughtiness" (without being offensive), made it funny and kept it interesting. None of the characters seemed particularly deep, and I wasn't left at the end trying to demythologize the text in order to garner meaning. By the time I reached my destination, I had turned all the pages and was wearing a contented smile.

I just gave it to my wife, the day after she had completed a huge research project and paper. As she started to read, she said "Oh, yeah, this is like Sue Grafton." Sure it was. Thirty minutes later I commented that I had never heard her laughing so much at Grafton. She agreed.

Other reviewers have complained about how formulaic this book is. I don't know, I haven't read the previous six, or the following one. I do know, that on its own it was delightful and entertaining. I think I'll start tracking down the other books in the series and play catch-up.

This isn't a thriller, it isn't a farce. It parodies the "expected" role of women in society without pedanticism. It treads on the teats of many a sacred cow, gleefully. It's a yarn, told through the eyes of a character I wish I could number in my circle of friends.

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Summary: seven up
Review: i think this book is a very entertaining and action-packed book. definatley highly recommened.