Seven Up

For almost $10 a book AND the fact that the series is going into book 25, I thought this must be a great series to get into and catch up on. I was wrong. Don’t fall for it.
1. Use adult language. Seriously, if charactera can curse then you can call male genitals what they are instead of twigs/berries, lumpy whatnots, etc. Grow up.
2. How can both sisters have college degrees and both be unable to obtain jobs except at malls or factory floors? What were their degrees in? They need to get those jobs, even entry level.
3. Is the author under the assumption that people from New Jersey are slower to mature and unable to grow as people? This love triangle nonsense WHICH APPARENTLY GOES ON FOR THE NEXT 17 BOOKS shows a lack of maturity I do not expect to find in 30-something year olds for extended periods of time. This isn’t Twilight or Hunger Games.
4. Who checks on continuity? One main blaring item already is how Vinnies bond business works and whose money is really on the line. It started with it being the insurances money and no real crisis for Vinnie. It has moved on through the last few books to coming out of Vinnies pocket and directly affecting him. Also the ownership changes by later books, making the business belong to his father in law Harry the Hammer.
5. Bestiality is not funny. It’s animal abuse. It may seem risque, but making light of it is wrong.
6. It’s OK for relationships to end and for characters to move on, but to make people cheaters unable to move forward or allow others to is just wrong.

BUY J.D. ROBB series. Character growth is continul through ALL BOOKS AND NOVELLAS.

The Stephanie Plum series will never win any literary awards, but they are my favorites. If you have never read one of Janet Evanovich’s books about this Trenton, NJ bounty hunter, you must. In these stressful days, it’s great to just laugh out loud. With this books, each page will have you laughing. The trials of Stephanie, both personal and professional are totally relatable.

I loved this book. The Stephanie Plum character is hilarious. It is hard to make me laugh that hard but this book truly does. Plum is a bounty huner from the burg who works for her cousin Vinnie. He owns a bale bonds in Trenton New Jersey. Word gets around that a seventy year old retired mobster by the name of Eddie DeCooch can out run her even though he has cataracts, loss of hearing and a bad prostrate. It is Plums job to bring him in to set a new court date since he skipped his first one. His charge is trafficking contraband cigarettes. Not such an easy job, it turns out, since DeCooch has learned a lot of tricks over the years and isn’t afraid to use his gun. Although, because he is pretty blind from his cataracts the bullets fly in crazy directions. Plum finds a dead woman in DeCooch’s shed when she trys to track him down. She also has two friends from high school that are stoned most of the time and Mooner’s brain is pretty fried from the drugs. Plum learns one one of her friens Doogie is missing and is somehow connected to DeCooch. All the twists and turns makes this book well worth the reading.

I was really into the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evonavich and kept buying one book after another. I told several people about them including my sister because Grandma Mazur reminded me so much of my mother. This particular book had too many characters, a convoluted story line and a disappointing love story. I’m going to take a break for a while and think about whether or not I’ll go back. Up until this one I loved them.

Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter working for her lecherous cousin Vinnie in Trenton, NJ. Klutzy Stephanie often mistakes her can of hair set for pepper spray, and forgets to charge her stun gun. It’s a wonder she captures anybody.
HOT SIX ended with undercover vice cop Joe Morelli proposing marriage – sort of.
In SEVEN UP, Vinnie assigns Plum to seize Eddie DeChooch, who’s jumped bail on a charge of cigarette smuggling. But Eddie refuses to be brought in until he finds something he’s lost, and he’s willing to resort to gunplay to make his point. But Stephanie hates guns – she keeps her .38 in a cookie jar. And what has DeChooch lost? All we and Stephanie know is that it has to be kept cold. In the meantime, Plum must mentally grasp Morelli’s marriage proposal. They’ve an on-again, off-again relationship ever since Joe took her virginity on the floor behind the pastry counter of the bakery where she worked at eighteen. Mrs. Plum, whose nightmare is her daughter as an Old Maid, takes Stephanie out to try on wedding gowns when the latter, in a desperate moment at the Plum family dinner table with guest Joe, blurts out “August!”. Will it happen, you think?
Now seven novels into the Stephanie Plum series, it’s evident that Evanovich writes to a fairly rigid formula, at least so far: Plum gets an ostensibly easy assignment that goes terribly wrong when her quarry proves elusive and one or more bodies are discovered; Stephanie has car problems; Stephanie must temporarily put up with an eccentric roommate; Stephanie dotes on her pet hamster, Rex; Stephanie is followed by suspicious characters; Stephanie takes her Grandma Mazur to viewings at local funeral parlors; Stephanie’s sidekick in dysfunctional fugitive apprehension is Lula, ex-ho and Vinnie’s file clerk; Stephanie has the hots for fellow bounty hunter, the mysterious Ranger. Whatever fantastical situations and characters the author additionally creates seem to be outlandish for their own sakes rather than maturing her heroine’s persona. While that’s not necessarily bad, it does lend each book a strain of boring predictability. The author needs to expand Stephanie’s horizons. And I’m becoming increasingly annoyed that Plum’s long-suffering parents remain ciphers.
Mind you, I still enjoy Stephanie’s adventures immensely. But I’m unwilling to award any more five-star ratings unless Evanovich provides something surprising or very clever.

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