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remember if this is the one where she flirts with Joe or flirts with Ranger, but love all of them because hey, it's Stephanie Plum.
This was a fun story, It had a bit of action, a bit of mystery, and plenty of crazy humor, The story was fast paced and pretty light in tone for the most part, but it did have a few dark happenings that injected some tension into the story.
Down on her luck Stephanie Plum needs a job fast before she runs out of money and ends up getting evicted from her apartment.
She askes her cousin Vinny if she can get the vacant secretary job at his business only to be told the position was just filled! Not to be discouraged Stephanie blackmails cousin Vinny into giving her one of his bounty hunting jobs.
She could hardly pass up the chance to drag exboyfriend Joe Morelli to jail and earn,in the process! Unfortunately for Stephanie, Joe is a excop who skipped bail on a murder charge and is not eager to be jailed before he can prove his innocence.
The story was pretty fun, Stephanie was a likeable character and it was entertaining to follow her as she learned how to be a bounty hunter.
She and Joe had good chemistry and their crazy exchanges were hilarious, The mystery of who set up Joe gave the plot an extra dimension as did the inclusion of the menacing and crazy stalker Stephanie picked up in the form of local celebrity boxer Benito Ramirez.
On a random note I thought it was pretty interesting to read a book set in
the mids.
It is easy to forget there was a day when mobile phones and the internet did not exist forof people.
I'm looking forward to the next book in the series!
Rating:,stars.
Audio Note: C, J. Critt did a great job with the audio version, My only issue was that she sounded a bit old foryear old Stephanie, but ultimately that was a minor issue.
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My wife and I were heading to Philadelphia for a long weekend, and decided to get an audiobook for the road trip.
After a short conversation about how that "female bounty hunter movie" was based on a best selling book, I downloaded this.
I was slightly curious, as I have seen the author's name on bookshelves for years now, and didn't know anything other than that she was very fond of numbers in her titles.
Eight minutes into our road trip my wife asked me to shut the book off, as she had a headache.
All we heard was a childhood flashback about the main character getting tricked by a neighborhood kid into playing "train tunnel" in her pants.
I was happy to acquiesce, as I thought both the book and the narrator were dreadful,
But now I feel compelled to finish what I started, since I paid for it, and I have to listen to something while commuting in rush hour traffic.
So either the book is going to improve significantly, or I am going to have fun writing a scathing review when it's finally over.
UPDATE:
I finished listening to this yesterday, It was beyond awful.
The main character, Stephanie Plum, makes stupid decision after stupid decision, In fact, I cannot think of a single rational, logical decision she made at any point in the novel, And all the while, the reader is subjected to constant descriptions of her clothing, jewelry and makeup,
Supporting characters around her appear and disappear, serving only as thinly veiled plot devices, Her family, her boss and Ranger are never mentioned after the halfway point of the novel, I lost count of how many times Plum catches up to Morelli only to not even try to apprehend him,
Deus ex machina moments occur regularly, More than one character seems clinically schizophrenic, The "mystery" would have never been solved, if not for a sitelinklengthy expository speech by the villain right before he plans to kill the protagonist.
No way would I ever pick up another one of these books, Oh, and why am I not surprised to learn that Janet Evanovich is one of Stephenie Meyer's favorite authors I've been seeing Evanovich books for years and not even once was I compelled to give them another look or find out if they were worth my time.
I kind of regret it now,
Thisst book in the series about a female bounty hunter set in New Jersey ethnic neighborhood was quite a pleasure to read.
The book was written aboutyears ago and definitely felt dated in many ways, especially in regards to "fashion" spandex shorts, big hair, hoop earrings and all that.
But the humor remained fresh, Plum/Morelli dynamic duo was a lot of fun to follow, and the mystery involving Hispanic and Italian gangsters, prostitutes, a crazy boxer and drugs was an original one.
I am not rushing into reading thend book in the series, mostly because I don't want to overdose on them and there is like a million books in the series, so catching up is impossible.
But I will definitely check the next book out whenever I am in a mood for a fastpaced funny mystery, Find all of my reviews at: sitelink blogspot. com/
Dear Janet E:
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Actually, thats a boldface lie, I obviously have no desire to ever give up on our onesided relationship, I mean, Ive faithfully read about Stephanie Plum, her exploding cars, her guntoting Granny, her former ho bestie, and her will shewont she relationships for overyears now.
Not to mention all of her other series Ive dabbled in, as well as some of her romance books, and dare I forget the pretty godawful movie version of this one that I just haaaaaad to watch.
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When I saw my friend sitelinkBeverly was giving this a listen, I thought it might be right up my alley.
Since my commute isnt very long, I prefer shortie shorts that dont require me to remember a lot of details in order to stay involved in the story.
My mind tends to wander when dealing with the spoken rather than written word, You know what I mean,
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Twentyplus books into this series, I forgot how solid this first one was, The slapstick level had not yet appeared, nor had the neverending love triangle, Lula was still an actual ho and Stephanie had to contend with a pretty rough bad guy instead of the flashers of her future.
But the most important thing Lori Pettys narration, .
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Holy crap she was good, Which means Ill probably end up falling down this dang rabbit hole and reexperiencing these all over again,
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"You say it's 'nothing personal' You've harassed my mother, stolen my car, and now you're telling people I've gotten you pregnant! In my opinion, getting someone pregnant is pretty ing personal! Jesus, isn't it enough I'm accused of murder What are you, the bounty hunter from hell" Joe Morelli, the initial 'failuretoappear' case assignment, on page
Author Evanovich is doing something right, with a total of twentyseven ! Stephanie Plum dramedy crime adventures published over the course of twentyseven years starting way back in.
In the debut One for the Money we meet Ms, Plum, an earlythirtysomething single gal from 'the burg' the hardscrabble workingclass section of Trenton, New Jersey who has just lost her fulltime gig as a lingerie buyer for a local department store.
With limited job options she turns to her shifty cousin, who runs his own bail bonds operation, Very quickly Plum jumps headfirst into service as a novice bounty hunter a title which smacks of a Wild West origin the position also referred to as a 'skip tracer' or, officially, a bond enforcement agent, as her cousin's usual goto operative is on medical leave.
Her initial 'failure to appear' fugitive retrieval assignment is a personal and complicated one it involves a former classmate / onetime romantic fling named Morelli, who is now a scruffy vice investigator who has disappeared as he is suspected of a murder.
Evanovich has crafted a very readable and occasionally suspenseful story that segues rather skillfully between the comic scenes and some fairly dark moments, and then populates it with a nice ensemble cast of characters.
Sometimes you just need to read a book like this, With mediocre writing and a plot as seethrough as Grandma's underpants, it will take your mind off life's more substantial material for a while.
bozanstven humor, zabavno autorka je divna koliko i njena junakinja Stefani Plam, . . imala sam to zadovoljstvo da je upoznam na sajmu u Njujorku davne, I divna je koliko i njene knjige, . . To mi je jedno od najdražih iskustava :
First in the long, long series of Stephanie Plum books, It's snappy, sassy, and short, maybe,words, As with the other books, a lot of New Jersey flavoring, and the setup for Plum's career, love life, and friends.
I guess the story works: it's all a bit tongueincheek, so if somebody you want to talk to is murdered, or a psycho killer calls you up and says he's coming over, these are just everyday irritations in New Jersey, things to be dealt with like a dead battery or an unpaid parking ticket.
The pace is relentless so the reader does not have time to think: murder is serious! It's just another plot twist, and we've moved on to hilarious lowlifes who have missed their court date.
The violence is not cartoonish, but the reaction is, and that's part of the fun, .