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Eleven on Top (Stephanie Plum #11)
by
Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
(from the back cover)
Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she quits. She wants something safe and normal. But the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of tr...more
Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she quits. She wants something safe and normal. But the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of tr...more
Paperback, 321 pages
Published
June 20th 2006
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
(first published June 21st 2005)
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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...more
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...more
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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 when the ow...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 when the ow...more
Too funny... I am reading this book and I keep picturing the people from the movie One For the Money.
This book was OK. Not as good as some of the other ones I have read. Was kind of boring to me.
This book was OK. Not as good as some of the other ones I have read. Was kind of boring to me.
Jan 25, 2009
Karin
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3 of 5 stars
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chick-lit,
funny,
mystery,
quirky,
romantic,
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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 though St...more
Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a 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. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. She wants something safe and normal. But trouble follows her, and the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now. Her past has come back to haun...more
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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, 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 want
Stephanie Plum is back and she has had enough with the Bounty Hunter business , so as she does Stephanie tries her hand at several other jobs but as we all know that trouble seems to follow Stephanie no matter where she is - she finds herself still shot at, car blown and in this one even Joe's garage goes ka-boom. With four people dead and a fifth one being searched for Stephanie seems to be recieving notes from a former disgruntled run-in , a blast from her past Spiro - the Trenton burg's funer...more
And I go to bed at night wondering where my life is heading.
- Stephanie
Well hell, when you smell that good and look that good who cares about anything else, anyway?
- Stephanie
I don't have a lot of domestic instincts, but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down.
- Ranger
I needed happy food.
- Stephanie
You should have called me, I have just the thing to make you happy.
- Morelli
And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out I only want to marry him on e...more
- Stephanie
Well hell, when you smell that good and look that good who cares about anything else, anyway?
- Stephanie
I don't have a lot of domestic instincts, but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down.
- Ranger
I needed happy food.
- Stephanie
You should have called me, I have just the thing to make you happy.
- Morelli
And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out I only want to marry him on e...more
Long stretches of tedium punctuated by episodes of laugh-out-loud fun
Published by Macmillan Audio in 2005.
Read by Lorelei King.
Duration: 7 hours, 48 minutes
Eleven on Top is my fifth in the Stephanie Plum series, having previously read 1-3 and 8. Technically, 1-3 were enjoyed thoroughly as books on tape. The fact that I heard them all as audiobooks is a source of my frustration with Eleven on Top .
You see, the first three that I enjoyed were read by the actress Lori Petty. In my mind, Petty accu...more
Published by Macmillan Audio in 2005.
Read by Lorelei King.
Duration: 7 hours, 48 minutes
Eleven on Top is my fifth in the Stephanie Plum series, having previously read 1-3 and 8. Technically, 1-3 were enjoyed thoroughly as books on tape. The fact that I heard them all as audiobooks is a source of my frustration with Eleven on Top .
You see, the first three that I enjoyed were read by the actress Lori Petty. In my mind, Petty accu...more
Like I said in my last review of Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series just keeps getting better. There is a ton more Ranger in this book, which is oh so nice, and a ton of twists and turns that I can hardly remember them all, which is also oh so nice.
Stephanie Plum just can't get a break, can she? Not from bad guys, not from explosions, and especially not from Ranger and Joe. This whole love triangle thing is absolutely killing me and I am seriously hoping it gets resolved soon....more
Stephanie Plum just can't get a break, can she? Not from bad guys, not from explosions, and especially not from Ranger and Joe. This whole love triangle thing is absolutely killing me and I am seriously hoping it gets resolved soon....more
Eleven on Top
Really ALL of the Stephanie Plum’s I have Read Thus Far
Janet Evanovich
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I started this series about 3 years ago. A friend of my mother-in-law raved on and on about them while we were at their pool one day, so I thought I would check them out. I picked up the first one in the series, One for the Money, at my local library. I remember reading it over the course of about 3 days.
The book was well written, ha...more
Really ALL of the Stephanie Plum’s I have Read Thus Far
Janet Evanovich
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I started this series about 3 years ago. A friend of my mother-in-law raved on and on about them while we were at their pool one day, so I thought I would check them out. I picked up the first one in the series, One for the Money, at my local library. I remember reading it over the course of about 3 days.
The book was well written, ha...more
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 t...more
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 relationship, you chose to be in it...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 relationship, you chose to be in it...more
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'm finding I a...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'm finding I a...more
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) but hank...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) but hank...more
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...more
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),...more
Hands down Evanovich is my FAVORITE author!! You can always expect to bust out laughing when reading any book in this series. The antics of both Grandma Mazur and Lula make me laugh so much my eyes water...and I don't know who's hotter Morelli or Ranger :-) I'm not going to review each individual book since the series is so long but I will say that every book is well written and Evanovich has THE best writing style around. I'm always blown away by the strong and realistic dialogue which makes th...more
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 would deliver. I wasn't...more
Look. It's a hundred degrees here. I wanted something mindless, and I knew Evanovich would deliver. I wasn't...more
★★★½
Ok, so let's be honest. Each book in the Stephanie Plum series does not differ all that much from one another. Sure, this installment had a bit of a twist in that Stephanie decides that "enough is enough" and quits her job as a bond enforcement agent. But we all know that she is still going to get involved. It seems like in at least half of the books in the series, at this point (book 11), Stephanie is being stalked or harassed. And you can pretty much expect that she is going to disappear,...more
Ok, so let's be honest. Each book in the Stephanie Plum series does not differ all that much from one another. Sure, this installment had a bit of a twist in that Stephanie decides that "enough is enough" and quits her job as a bond enforcement agent. But we all know that she is still going to get involved. It seems like in at least half of the books in the series, at this point (book 11), Stephanie is being stalked or harassed. And you can pretty much expect that she is going to disappear,...more
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 developed...more
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!).
In the midst of ordinary life, she can't seem to catch an o...more
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!).
In the midst of ordinary life, she can't seem to catch an o...more
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Stephanie Plum is tired of being shot at, beat up, having her apartment being broken into, her cars bombed and set and fire, being kidnapped and shot at. She decides to quit her job as Bounty Hunter. She tries other jobs, button factory, Kan Klean Dry Cleaners, and Cluck-in-a-Bucket, onein which one where the old woman is murdered. Finally Ranger offers her a job at Rangeman to do investigating on line for perps. Sounds easy? Not for Stephanie. She has a stalker who is leaving her notes, blowing...more
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 control and it seems th...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.
Of course. Stephanie's life is not in her control and it seems th...more
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.
What else?
Stephanie’s giving up sugar an...more
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.
What else?
Stephanie’s giving up sugar an...more
Eleven on Top is the eleventh novel in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. In this novel Stephanie quits her job as a bounty hunter after another one of cars gets blown up again. She wants a safer job where she won't get shot at or have her apartment broken into again or her cars blowing up. This leads to her to working at the button factory (where she gets fired for being 3 hours late for work on her first day), to a dry cleaners (this one lasts until the second day when she gets shot...more
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 the...more
I've definitely got a love/hate thing going on with these books. Yes, having read 11 of them does make it more love :p (Fine, it's love with a couple of gripes.)
They are good. They're fun, light reads to have on the back burner for when you need something between books. They can be counted on for a few laughs, and the consistency of the small cast of characters and slightly predictable storylines means you know what you're in for.
What are you in for?
- Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter... not-extraor...more
They are good. They're fun, light reads to have on the back burner for when you need something between books. They can be counted on for a few laughs, and the consistency of the small cast of characters and slightly predictable storylines means you know what you're in for.
What are you in for?
- Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter... not-extraor...more
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Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and graphic novels, Wicked Appetite (the first book in the Lizzy and Diesel series,) and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.
Also published books under the name Steffie Hall.
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“Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex . . . a lot. But it's never going to replace cake.”
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“I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, "but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down."
I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file.”
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I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file.”
