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Summary: Seven Up
Review: Great reading, makes you laugh out loud. I have read all 7 books, they get better and better.
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Summary: Wow! What a great series...
Review: A friend gave me One for the Money. I loved it so much, I ordered Two for the Show. After that I was hooked and ordered the rest. Seven Up, however was the best of them all. I can't wait for 8.
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Summary: I couldn't wait...
Review: After the build up of the past six books, I couldn't wait for it to come out in paperback to get my hands on this one. In retrospect, I should have waited. To be fair, it did have it's moments. I didn't laugh as hard as I had with the other books in the series, and there is a level of frustration I am feeling with Stephanie's character, but just like with certain story lines I watch on TV, I am still hooked on what will happen next. I recomend the book on the stunning ending alone, and I will be one of the first in line to see where Stephanie goes now.
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Summary: Oh, Please!
Review: I have to admit that I could not finish this book. After having struggled through two previous efforts, I thought I would give Evanovich one more chance to convince me that she had an original thought. Not to be. Her characters are caricatures - I've met them all elsewhere (and didn't like them much there either), and the Stephanie character strains all credibility. Every action and word is predictable - and predictably "kooky". She make the most obvious and stupid mistakes - over and over again. When the old man with the enlarged prostate gave her the slip twice in the first few chapters, I had had enough.
Please - put this series out of its misery!
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Summary: "Seven Up" a 10!
Review: When it comes to mysteries, no-one is as rude, raunchy and rowdy as Janet Evanovich. Once again she's offered up a fast-paced treat that's not just laugh-out-loud funny -- it's laugh-out-loud hilarious. But be forewarned: Evanovich and her bounty-hunter heroine Stephanie Plum are not for the prim and proper Miss Marple crowd. Plum and her many cohorts are not averse to throwing around the F-word, as well as sexual double-entendres (and some not so double). What else would you expect from a series that takes place in Trenton, NJ. Think "The Sopranos" mixed with a heavy dose of "I Love Lucy," or vice-versa. Whatever. Just sit back with a beer and some powdered donuts and enjoy!
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Summary: Same old, same old...
Review: Evanovich has done it again; yet another exciting, funny, frustrating installment in the misadventures of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.There's lots of action (romantic and otherwise), a great cast of characters, two hot love interests, some improbably hilarious high jinx, and the bad guys get caught again, somehow. But, it all seems a little too much of the "same old, same old...". It's getting kind of frustrating that Stephanie Plum seems never to learn from her mistakes, and never seems to get any less incompetent. Of course, this is the source of much of the charm and hilarity for the series. But it is starting to wear too, too thin. The first book in the series suggested that she might take some steps to learn those basic bounty hunger survival skills, such as shooting (and actually carrying a - loaded - gun). But, since then she has taken great strides... backwards. And, so have the plots of the books. Rarely is there anything new. Sure, some fun characters have been introduced, and the relationships that Stephanie has with Joe and Ranger have progressed somewhat, but now we're at the 7th installment (the 8th is just coming out) and not really any further ahead. Overall, I like the series for its levity and the cute ways that Evanovich has of making Stephanie survive. But, I wish that this bounty hunter would start learning how to do her job.
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Summary: Another hysterical Stephanie Plum outing
Review: Stephanie Plum is at it again, this time trying to bring in some little old guy named Eddie DeChooch but having her typical difficulties with doing so. She's also having to deal with Bob the dog, a couple of drug addicts named Mooner and Dougie, her "perfect sister" Valerie, who's returned from California after her husband's left her, and the usual cast of characters. She's also trying to sort out her romantic life, torn between cop Morelli and bounty hunter Ranger while trying not to let her relatives box her into a marriage to Morelli before she's ready. Any more would be telling, so I'll stop now. Some seem to think this book isn't up to the level of the previous ones, but I enjoyed it.
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Summary: Can't crank them out fast enough for me
Review: I have loved and laughed over every one of the Stephanie Plum books. I can't recommend them highly enough. For a good time - grab a Plum!!
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Summary: Make Seven. . . Up Yours
Review: Okay, sure -- the review title is shamelessly lifted from a recent "7 Up" ad campaign, but it fits the spirit of this novel and its sassy protagonist. I suspect that Stephanie Plum would approve. As a bounty hunter, Stephanie is no Lara Croft. Her gun is usually left in her cookie jar, and her idea of exercise is a brief, early morning walk to allow her oversized dog to do its business on a rival's lawn. Although she has her flashes of inspiration and is starting to develop something akin to instrincts, her successes are based in large part upon her wide networks of family and friends, and an occasional rescue by her enigmatic (and gorgeous) colleague Ranger. Much of the story's charm comes from Stephanie's wacky relatives, and from the cozy if slightly off-kilter world portrayed. Stephanie accepts all these odd folks and befriends most of them, and she describes "the Burg" with such affection that you find yourself nostalgic for meatloaf, air polution and retired mafia. At the heart of the series is hot-blooded Stephanie's on-and-off relationship with sexy cop Joe Morelli, and her fascination with Ranger. But the funniest moments come from the inspired pairing of Stephanie with former hooker Lulu. Their partnership brings to mind an updated Lucy and Ethel. And, like Lucy, Stephanie has a worried and patriarchal male fussing over her attempts to earn a living. The result of this interaction, however, is significantly different, and goes something like this: Ricky Ricardo: "Lucy . . . ."
Response: "Waaaaahhh!!" Joe Morelli: "Stephanie . . . "
Response: "Bite me." This plot revolved around Stephanie's attempts to apprehend an aging and impotent mafia hitman. (She knows of the gentlemen's medical problems courtesy of Grandmother Mazur, who dates the old gent.) Comic blunders abound, the obligatory vehicles are destroyed, but this time Stephanie doesn't stumble onto the solution. She shows initiative and ingenuity, not to mention considerable courage. And her quirky compassion is much in evidence, from the first scene in which she talks a friend down off a bridge railing to the denouement, in which she dutifully admires the effect that good news has on the old mafioso. (This "good news," by the way, is wonderfully absurd and not without a keen ironic edge.) I liked Seven Up a bit less than its six predecessors, but I still liked it very much. It's a chick book, and I mean that in the best sort of way. Reading a Stephanie Plum book is like spending a couple of hours with the Jersey-girlfriend we all wish we had.
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Summary: Good News; Bad News
Review: Good news is that I finished Seven Up; bad news is that I finished Seven Up! I just hate to leave Stephanie's side.
Exactly what is she getting herself into now? This, her latest
adventure, was the silliest and most "out there" of the seven but I still hung on every word. Quick pace made for fast page turning. What would happen next was always in the back of my mind when I wasn't there watching as Stephanie's adventures unfolded. Janet Evanovich, keep 'em coming............PLEASE!!
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