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 enlarge | Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  393 reviews
Sales Rank: 173
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0312349513
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312349516
ASIN: 0312349513
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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 Quit whining! Evanovich is hilarious! September 3, 2008
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you want mystery, fun, adventure, and the occasional sexual escapade, this is the book for you.
Some people just spend too much time whining because the book isn't high art.
Get off your high horses. Evanovich is hilarious. You are just jealous.
Not up to par September 3, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am still a huge fan of the series and will read them as she makes them but this book was a huge letdown.
Time to wrap it up September 2, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book seemed a repeat of the last book, which indicated to me that Janet has no more Stephanie stories to tell. Thirteen and Fourteen seemed as if she'd picked three minor plots for each out of a jar of possible subplots, and then tried to connect them instead of starting off with one big, absorbing plot and working from there.
She's got the characters down cold. They're the reason to buy the book. For the most part they're wonderful and LOL.
Even the text this time tells us that bounty hunters abound in the media these days, and it's certainly become true (though Stephanie was one of the first and certainly the most original!). The concept of Steph as a bounty hunter is not as exciting these days as it once was -- especially since JE's had everyone in the books try their own hands at the job, which imho was a huge mistake each time it happened. I even give points off for Lula after she stuck around with the job.
But if JE's burned out on Stephanie (as it seems she is), why not take the next two installments and wrap up the series with gusto? We could see relationships and skill sets improve... and what kind of different situations would THAT get us into? I think readers would LOVE to see this! And it might inspire JE in other directions, who knows?
Wrap up the series, JE. Let Stephanie go out in style instead of fizzling away to nothing.
I loved this book! September 2, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
It is not easy to make me laugh out loud but this book did it more than once. Fun!
 Reviewing: Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel September 1, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
It begins as many of these do with Stephanie Plum out on a bond recovery. This time it is Loretta, suicidal, and in her pajamas in her kitchen while Stephanie tries to convince her everything is going to be okay. Loretta wanted a Tom Collins as she was thirsty so she held up a liquor store. She made bail and missed her court appearance and now has to leave her home and go back to jail. They negotiate and finally she surrenders and goes semi-willingly to jail. Now, Stephanie has to take care of her teenage son, Mario.
Mario looks way too much like Joe Morelli for Stephanie and just about everyone involved. Sure, Loretta, her brother, Dom, and Joe are all cousins so that could explain it. Or, it could be the fact that according to Dom, Joe years ago got way too close to Loretta and fathered Mario. Dom hates Joe for many reasons and being the father of Mario is just one of them. He wants Joe Morelli dead. Of course, things just get more complicated from there. Stephanie ends up doing body guard work for Ranger while Joe tries to figure out where the money is from a long ago bank robbery that Dom was a part of and Joe Morelli has made the money hunt more complicated without trying to do so. And Lulu is working an agenda all her own with her usual results.
So, there are some good ideas here. But, this latest novel is a rather dull read even by the standards of the last several novels in this series. Something is missing and it is not easy to explain what exactly is missing from the book. It could be the fact that the rest of Stephanie's family is accounted for, but missing in action for almost the entire novel. There is only one dinner scene with the family in this novel and dinner scenes always provided a lot of humor earlier in the series. It could be that while her car is graffiti painted, Stephanie's car doesn't suffer a fiery death as we all expect in book after book. It could be that the spark between Ranger and Stephanie is dim in this one and the spark between Joe and Stephanie seems to have been snuffed out. Not that there are romantic comments and flirtatious teasing, but there is little passion involved among any of the parties.
It could be a host of things. I don't know what it is. I do know that for this reader there were only a couple of amusing moments and one laugh out loud one. The rest of the time the pages turned, the story flowed, but, it never came alive or moved me one way or another. Instead, it seemed lifeless and just a book used to crank out another notch on the series hamster wheel.
While die hard fans may love it, those new to the series are advised to skip this one.
Kevin R. Tipple (copyright) 2008
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