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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at,...
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Jun 12, 2008
Jessica
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There is only so much a girl can take. And this girl has had enough! Enough of chasing bad guys, wrestling them to the ground, having them shoot at her and always ending up covered in garbage. So Stephanie Plum quits her job as a bounty hunter. She quickly finds out there are other jobs she is much worse at! She can’t seem to keep a job. She temporarily works at the button factury, a fast food place, a dry cleaners, before landing a gig at a security company, with the very good looking Ranger as
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Jun 11, 2008
Amylou1977
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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. She wants something safe and normal. As it turns out, jobs that are safe and normal for most people aren't necess
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Jul 15, 2008
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Jan 31, 2008
Christy
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Number 11 in the Stephanie Plum series proves Janet Evanovich could go on forever. This best-selling author keeps the humor flowing with the wacky situations Stephanie and her cohorts manage to get themselves into.
Stephanie is beginning to question where her life is going and makes the drastic decision to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She ends up working in a button factory but gets fired the first day before she even begins work. Her next job at a dry-cleaning establishment ends More...
Stephanie is beginning to question where her life is going and makes the drastic decision to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She ends up working in a button factory but gets fired the first day before she even begins work. Her next job at a dry-cleaning establishment ends More...
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Jan 25, 2009
Barky
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In Evanovich's most recent Stephanie Plum novel, Stephanie quits her job as a bounty hunter because she’s getting tired of all of the shooting and explosions. She decides to try her hand at something else. Lula, the one-time filer down at bounty hunter headquarters, decides to take her vacant position – and SHE manages to keep Stephanie busy helping HER with apprehensions. What’s more worrisome is that the explosions don’t stop, and now they’re accompanied by death threats. It seems as thoug
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Dec 10, 2011
Tim
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OK, my (**%)^$%!! laptop wiped out my review TWOCE before I could finish it, so let's try again. Latest fun Plum novel, narrated by Lorelei King (I like both her and C.J. Critt, both of whom have about perfected their characterizations and pacing, after so many of these works). This one involves Stephanie quitting Vinnie's Bail Bond business from getting just tired of chasing all these losers; however, her subsequent jobs are short lived and disastrous (just think of her jobs as not dissimilar
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Jul 13, 2011
Chy
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Okay, so I promised myself this had to be the last one for a while. And it was a great one to end on. Got to see Plum try to leave the bounty-hunter business behind and, of course, it was just one glorious disaster after another.
I still get mad about her, "He's sexy, oh no he's sexy" stuff. I realize it's a tension-building love triangle...thing. I guess I just don't get into those when the one stuck in the middle stays (mostly) in a relationship. You're in a relations More...
I still get mad about her, "He's sexy, oh no he's sexy" stuff. I realize it's a tension-building love triangle...thing. I guess I just don't get into those when the one stuck in the middle stays (mostly) in a relationship. You're in a relations More...
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Mar 04, 2011
Fen
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These really are the perfect books to read while on an airplane. They're sort of like popcorn for the brain... fun, enjoyable and quick. I know some of my friends started to get tired of the series after awhile, but I actually do think the books keep getting better (or maybe it's just that my mindset about them has changed enough that I'm enjoying them more).
Oddly, one of the biggest complaints I've heard about the series is how the whole love triangle just drags on and on... but I More...
Oddly, one of the biggest complaints I've heard about the series is how the whole love triangle just drags on and on... but I More...
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Jul 04, 2010
Jerry
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Shake the other ten in a bag, dump out a bit at a time, & you get 11 !!
We hate to say it, as some of the other ten were definitely amusing, but there's not much smile factor left in Plum et al that we haven't heard or seen before. While there is a smidge of a plot (four small business owners are missing, and Steph keeps getting threatening notes and cars bombed), one can almost predict the rest: Lulu can't get her bond jumpers, so eats fast food; Steph shacks up with Morelli (again) More...
We hate to say it, as some of the other ten were definitely amusing, but there's not much smile factor left in Plum et al that we haven't heard or seen before. While there is a smidge of a plot (four small business owners are missing, and Steph keeps getting threatening notes and cars bombed), one can almost predict the rest: Lulu can't get her bond jumpers, so eats fast food; Steph shacks up with Morelli (again) More...
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Aug 10, 2009
Drebbles
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Stephanie Plum is tired of her bounty hunter job. She's had enough of chasing after criminals, being shot at, her apartment always being broken into, and having her car blown up, so she quits her job. She has no problem finding a job, several jobs, in fact, but keeping them is a problem, as she manages to get fired as quickly as she is hired. Finally, Ranger hires her to work for him and she hopes her life will have some stability. But one of her past cases comes back to haunt her. Someone keeps
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Jun 21, 2009
Anne
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This is the best of the bunch, so far. In others, I got a bit weary of certain kinds of one-dimensional description. (Especially the gags about Lula, the animal print-loving black sidekick with excessive appetites.) This one, though, does what Evanovich does well: juggle many plots and subplots, integrate the James Bond-type gadgets (NASCAR & surveillance in this one), manage the simultaneous love plots between homegrown lover (Italian cop) and mentor with an opaque past (Cuban mystery man), the
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Jul 28, 2009
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A Stephanie Plum "Mystery." Stephanie quits her job as a bounty hunter, yet, despite this, continues to fail at common sense. Lula gets promoted and somehow proves to be even worse at the job than Stephanie. Morelli is hot and strangely calm. Ranger is hot and doing his best to save Stephanie from herself. Bob eats things he shouldn't, then does a lot of hunching and vomiting and crapping.
Look. It's a hundred degrees here. I wanted something mindless, and I knew Evanovich w More...
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Apr 10, 2010
Tristan
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A good solid entry into the "numbers" series from Janet Evanovich, although a wee bit thin on the plot. Let's face it: These books are sheer pleasure for no reason other than to watch Stephanie battle the various demons in her life (getting her cars blown up, dealing with her crazy family, and generally trying to toughen herself up to fit the role of bounty hunter) and wrestle, whether literally or figuratively, with the two men in her life (Morelli and Ranger). Earlier books had more
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Jan 31, 2010
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Stephanie Plum is tired of her job as a bounty hunter. It's dangerous, she's always stressed-out, and well, she just thinks it's time for something new.
So she quits. And then starts a series of nonsensical jobs (for her), discovering along the way that trouble finds her, even when she's not a bounty hunter! There are car bombings, garage bombings, and an "accident" involving a car running down her boyfriend Joe Morelli (a cop, no less!).
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So she quits. And then starts a series of nonsensical jobs (for her), discovering along the way that trouble finds her, even when she's not a bounty hunter! There are car bombings, garage bombings, and an "accident" involving a car running down her boyfriend Joe Morelli (a cop, no less!).
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May 08, 2011
Wai
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Once again we join the adventures of intrepid Jersey girl and ex-bounty hunter Stephanie Plum as she...wait a minute...ex-bounter hunter?
Indeed. As the book opens, she has just brought in the latest FTA (that's bounter hunter speak for 'Failure To Appear') in her usual way which involves rolling around in the garbage, getting her clothes torn and getting stuff in her hair and enough's enough and it's time to get a safe, proper job.
Of course. Stephanie's life is not in her con More...
Indeed. As the book opens, she has just brought in the latest FTA (that's bounter hunter speak for 'Failure To Appear') in her usual way which involves rolling around in the garbage, getting her clothes torn and getting stuff in her hair and enough's enough and it's time to get a safe, proper job.
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Oct 21, 2010
Iris
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I’m glad to say “Eleven on Top” is an improvement on the previous ones.
Steph quits her job as a bounty hunter. She wants a normal job with a regular income – and gets lucky almost instantly, though she loses the job just as quickly. After a short-lived job at the dry cleaners she ends up in cluck-in-a-bucket – which burns down after only a few days. No luck for Steph to escape the threats and being shot at; there’s someone out there to settle an old score.
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Steph quits her job as a bounty hunter. She wants a normal job with a regular income – and gets lucky almost instantly, though she loses the job just as quickly. After a short-lived job at the dry cleaners she ends up in cluck-in-a-bucket – which burns down after only a few days. No luck for Steph to escape the threats and being shot at; there’s someone out there to settle an old score.
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May 13, 2009
Tracy
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OK! I laughed with this one . . . again. Stephanie finally tries to stop being a bounty hunter. She is fired from the button factory after 1 hr--she showed up an hour late after 'celebrating' the new job with Joe. She gets fired from Kan Klean for giving Lula a discount and Lula acts like Lula, and she blows up Cluck-n-a-Bucket after one day of work. In the background, Ranger is trying to find his missing FTA, who come to find out is connected to an old robery and a well respected person in th
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Aug 09, 2011
Kara
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Stephanie Plum has had it with tussling with the dregs of society, so she quits her job as a bond enforcement agent and tries a succession of other jobs that, of course, become disasters. Eventually, she winds up at Rangeman, Inc. running computer checks for oh-so-sexy bounty hunter Ranger. Meanwhile, Lula tries to take over Stephanie’s old job, but always requires Stephanie’s help, Morelli winds up with a broken leg, and somebody keeps blowing up Stephanie’s cars. It all seems to be tied to
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Aug 19, 2011
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Aug 16, 2010
Jen
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What happens when Stephanie Plum tries to quit being a bond enforcement agent? Everything blows up. No, really. I should have kept a tally of the exploding things in this book, and then smacked myself on the head for laughing each time. There's a reviewer (like, real reviewer, like San Diego Times or something) who talks about how Evanovich has a gift of turning what should be serious moments into absolute riots, and it's true. The garage blew up? Hilarious! Evil Mama Macaroni was blown t
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Sep 09, 2011
Cherie
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My ratings system is as follows. One star is GOOD. The book is entertaining, easy to read and you don't want to stop reading because something about the book is compelling you not to. Two stars is GREAT! This time the story is not only entertaining, but highly creative, unique, easy to read and hard to put down. Three stars is EXCELLENT. Here the book has all aspects of one and two stars, but now the book is thought and emotionally provoking. Four is AWESOME. This is the read that is not onl
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Apr 21, 2009
Patrick
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“I’m not the world’s best cook, but I have some specialties, and almost all of them include peanut butter. You can’t go wrong with peanut butter. Today I was having a peanut butter and olive and potato chip sandwich for dinner. Very efficient since it contains legumes and vegetables plus some worthless white bread carbohydrates all in one tidy package. I was standing in the kitchen, washing the sandwich down with a cold Corona, and Morelli called . . .” And, no doubt, Stephanie gets hot and both
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Feb 26, 2009
Christa
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Stephanie Plum books are what I like to read when I am tired and need a good pick me up. I was worried about this one at first because Stephanie seemed depressed and the normal humor wasn't evident. As I read on, the tone of the book seemd to lighten, and the humor increased. I loved the interaction between Stephanie, Morelli, and Ranger, as usual.
Stephanie is tired of being shot at, having her cars bombed, and being covered in garbage. She quits her bounty hunting job with her More...
Stephanie is tired of being shot at, having her cars bombed, and being covered in garbage. She quits her bounty hunting job with her More...
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Mar 03, 2011
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Dec 10, 2010
Tara
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As the holidays approach and I am spending more time cleaning in an attempt to "start the new year right" and frantically finish knitting assorted Christmas presents, I have been listening to these books, because I got them all from my library and I have to have them back by the end of the month-(the problem with reserving from the library is sometimes everything comes in at once.)
So this is the first full length book I listened to narrated by Lorelei King. She's not awful More...
So this is the first full length book I listened to narrated by Lorelei King. She's not awful More...
Mar 15, 2009
Dorothy
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This was a fun read. It may be my favorite installment in the series so far.
Stephanie's life is in crisis - as usual. She's having second and third thoughts about her choice of a career. On third thought, she quits and takes a series of boring, "normal" jobs, most of which last less than one day before she is fired.
Meantime, she's being threatened by someone leaving her nasty notes and blowing up or setting fire to her cars as warnings. To keep her out of tr More...
Stephanie's life is in crisis - as usual. She's having second and third thoughts about her choice of a career. On third thought, she quits and takes a series of boring, "normal" jobs, most of which last less than one day before she is fired.
Meantime, she's being threatened by someone leaving her nasty notes and blowing up or setting fire to her cars as warnings. To keep her out of tr More...
Dec 13, 2011
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[series; audio] Eleven is true to Evanovich's series, with Stephanie pulling us along on her wacky way through life. Like many of us, Stephanie thinks -- but finds out it isn't true -- that a change in the outside stuff will fix her life so she quits Cousin Vinnie's only to find her car keeps getting blown up, people keep turning up dead (so Grandma Mazur has to go to the funerals), and Morelli and Ranger keep worrying about her. Light entertainment!
I had a bit of trouble getting used More...
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Aug 14, 2010
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Feb 10, 2012
Laura
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Stephanie Plum has decided to give up on bounty hunting. She hopes that by quitting her job she can get rid of all the crazy in her life. Only trouble seems to still follow her no matter what she does, which is try out the button factory, dry cleaners and cluck-in-a-bucket. She doesn't disappoint as she finally settles on a job with Ranger while juggling her life with Morelli. She also is being stalked by someone with a penchant for blowing up things.
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Apr 30, 2011
Torimac
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Stephanie is doing a little soul searching, trying to give up bounty hunting and be "normal". At the end she realizes giving up bounty hunting is not going to normalize her life. I think that's pretty realistic.
But I don't read these books for their "realism". I read them to laugh. And this was another winner for me. I also really enjoyed her interactions with Lula.
I don't want to see Stephanie become a mother. Not everyone needs to be a parent. Joe and S More...
But I don't read these books for their "realism". I read them to laugh. And this was another winner for me. I also really enjoyed her interactions with Lula.
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