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Jan 19, 2012
Duchess Nicole
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Still frustrated. Still love Lula and Grandma Mazur. Problem is, I love both Morelli and Ranger. I used to lean more toward Morelli, but lately he seems sort of apathetic towards any relationship with Stephanie. It's Ranger that tries to help her out and take care of her, and he seems genuinely worried that she'll get hurt. Morelli just complains that she gives him heartburn.
This one was still definitely worth reading, though if your looki More...
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Still frustrated. Still love Lula and Grandma Mazur. Problem is, I love both Morelli and Ranger. I used to lean more toward Morelli, but lately he seems sort of apathetic towards any relationship with Stephanie. It's Ranger that tries to help her out and take care of her, and he seems genuinely worried that she'll get hurt. Morelli just complains that she gives him heartburn.
This one was still definitely worth reading, though if your looki More...
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Feb 06, 2012
Tori
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I liken this series to an original document that you print out all new, and fresh, and perfect. And then the copy get's copied, and that copy gets copied and so on until you end up with a faded, scarred, crooked, ghost of that perfect original. It's old and it's tired and as much as you used to love it, it's time to let it go and start a new, original, document.
When I first discovered this series a few years ago, I absolutely loved it! I'm talking fan girl, crazed, running to the bookstor More...
When I first discovered this series a few years ago, I absolutely loved it! I'm talking fan girl, crazed, running to the bookstor More...
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Feb 04, 2012
Kristi
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I like Stephanie Plum, I really do, but this series has failed to make any forward progress for at least ten books now. It's the same story over and over (and over) again. It's getting kind of pathetic that Stephanie can't pick a man. And we know that Lula's fat, and wears tacky clothes, and eats more than most circus animals... We don't need constant reminders. Please, please, please add something fresh to this series to keep the reader interested!
Nov 29, 2011
Erika
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So, here I am again. I swore I wouldn't read another Evanovich Plum Novel--after my last review of 17, I swore tooth and nail to my husband, my mom, and my blog readers that I wouldn't read it! So...I went to the library. I really just had to know if it was as bad as the previous one. After being teased that she might make a decision in 18, I let my small curiosity overshadow my intellect.
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So, here I am again. I swore I wouldn't read another Evanovich Plum Novel--after my last review of 17, I swore tooth and nail to my husband, my mom, and my blog readers that I wouldn't read it! So...I went to the library. I really just had to know if it was as bad as the previous one. After being teased that she might make a decision in 18, I let my small curiosity overshadow my intellect.
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Nov 29, 2011
Sue
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You know what, I was actually real hopeful that there would be some development in this book. For the whole series Stephanie and Lula have bungled along.
For a moment I thought there would be some sort of character development. Especially over the whole Hawaii ordeal. I was flipping pages like mad to find out what happened. It was kind of a let down.
We do have some introspection by Stephanie, but she said she's not the introspection type. She remarked abut how she knows it More...
For a moment I thought there would be some sort of character development. Especially over the whole Hawaii ordeal. I was flipping pages like mad to find out what happened. It was kind of a let down.
We do have some introspection by Stephanie, but she said she's not the introspection type. She remarked abut how she knows it More...
Nov 27, 2011
Heather
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Here's the thing. I love Janet. I love the Stephanie world, I really do.
However - after 18 books a lot of things are starting to get very old.
Let's start with:
Lula's eating habits: It's getting really annoying, book after book, listening to her bitch and moan about what she eats, what she doesn't eat etc. etc. Either stick the girl on a complete diet or shut up about her eating habits. I really don't care that she's about to get sick after eating 10 cream filled d More...
However - after 18 books a lot of things are starting to get very old.
Let's start with:
Lula's eating habits: It's getting really annoying, book after book, listening to her bitch and moan about what she eats, what she doesn't eat etc. etc. Either stick the girl on a complete diet or shut up about her eating habits. I really don't care that she's about to get sick after eating 10 cream filled d More...
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Jan 03, 2012
Terri
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Stephanie Plum is back with "capers" (read the book - you'll get it) aplenty - each of them more hilarious and scandalous than the next, in Janet Evanovich's latest, "Explosive Eighteen." I give it four stars just because it made me laugh out loud and shout "oh no" and "ewwwww" several times. Evanovich, though not known for her literary merits, is certainly a master entertainer! All of my friends are back - Lula (who was in rare form for #18), Morelli and
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Nov 29, 2011
Elizabeth (Book_Attict)
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Okay, I admit it -- I'm a Stephanie Plum sucker! I read Smokin' 17, and until the last chapter of the book, SWORE that I'd no longer be running out to get the hardcover edition another Stephanie Plum book as soon as it was released, Instead,I'd be looking for the paperback at one of the used bookstores I frequent...
I love Janet Evanovich's writing style, her dialogue is hilarious, the characters are great, and reading the latest installment is like going home to visit with old fr More...
I love Janet Evanovich's writing style, her dialogue is hilarious, the characters are great, and reading the latest installment is like going home to visit with old fr More...
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Jan 04, 2012
Heather
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I reorder but im hoping that she finally picks a man and moves on to the level. how long can this series continue the way it is? I really like morelli but pick already. I would love to read about Lula or grandma and could handle a little Stephanie thrown in.
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Feb 22, 2012
thrilled that we dont have to wait until next summer for another book - hopefully she'll choose between Morelli and Ranger...getting tired of that.
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Feb 08, 2012
michelle
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Well, that was incredibly disappointing.
I get that when reading this kind of series it is going to be repetitive. It's a comfort thing - formula is good because you know what you're going to get.
Yet after 22 books (18 novels, 4 novellas), you expect /some/ character development. But it was just the same old thing.
Like many others, I want Stephanie to just choose a guy already or just accept that she is a two guy girl. The latter is unlikely because of the u More...
I get that when reading this kind of series it is going to be repetitive. It's a comfort thing - formula is good because you know what you're going to get.
Yet after 22 books (18 novels, 4 novellas), you expect /some/ character development. But it was just the same old thing.
Like many others, I want Stephanie to just choose a guy already or just accept that she is a two guy girl. The latter is unlikely because of the u More...
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Nov 30, 2011
Brittany
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I really couldn't get into this one. At first, I really thought the author realized that the same old formula and indecision between the characters was becoming absurd and tiring, but obviously not.
The plot was slow and half way through the book I didn't care. It took me less than six hours to read this book due to the enormous margins. There was less humor in this book than in her previous novels- more than a bit disappointing. Thank goodness the library buys these books do I don't More...
The plot was slow and half way through the book I didn't care. It took me less than six hours to read this book due to the enormous margins. There was less humor in this book than in her previous novels- more than a bit disappointing. Thank goodness the library buys these books do I don't More...
Dec 29, 2011
Heather
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I enjoyed this book just like I have enjoyed all the others. I find them entertaining and laugh out loud funny.
It doesn't seem to bother me, as it does others, that the character Stephanie Plum is sleeping with more than one man at a time. She's young, not in a permanent relationship and FICTIONAL.
It doesn't seem to bother me, as it does others, that the character Stephanie Plum is sleeping with more than one man at a time. She's young, not in a permanent relationship and FICTIONAL.
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Feb 03, 2012
Franny (The Reader's Edge)
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I really think this series needs to reach an end. The books are full of the same stuff different title. I think she needs to pick a guy and wrap it up. This book was better than the 15, 16 and 17, but it really hasn't been the same since 12. An author really needs to know when the money train is over and the fans deserve a resolution. I keep holding out for it to get back to the magic at the beginning of the series. In addition to all this, the ebook prices for these books are unreasonable
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Dec 17, 2011
Wendy F
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I'm stuck between a 3 and a 4 star rating.
On one hand, all my old complaints still stand firm. She has got to start putting more time into this series. They all just seem so rushed and like she's not TRYING anymore.
But! I have to say that I have been waiting for <spoiler>Morelli and Ranger to finally come to blows</spoiler>. That makes me want to bump it up. Plus I laughed a bit more in this one then in the last two... oh and man, those are two hot men. More...
On one hand, all my old complaints still stand firm. She has got to start putting more time into this series. They all just seem so rushed and like she's not TRYING anymore.
But! I have to say that I have been waiting for <spoiler>Morelli and Ranger to finally come to blows</spoiler>. That makes me want to bump it up. Plus I laughed a bit more in this one then in the last two... oh and man, those are two hot men. More...
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Feb 21, 2012
The Stephanie Plum series are my guilty pleasures. These are the books that I am ashamed to admit that I read. This is another series that I don't know why I still read. I loved the first few Stephanie Plum novels...hilarious!The more I started to get into the series, the more familiar they seemed.
Lula-enough already. She is getting on my nerves! I am so sick of hearing everything that she eats. We get that she eats all the time. We get that she's tacky and obnoxious. Give us someth More...
Lula-enough already. She is getting on my nerves! I am so sick of hearing everything that she eats. We get that she eats all the time. We get that she's tacky and obnoxious. Give us someth More...
Feb 20, 2012
TJ
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2.5/5.0
I know, I know... why do I keep torturing myself? I have no answer save that after reading 18 Stephanie Plum books, I want so badly for something to happen relationship-wise between her and either one of her guys that I delude myself into believing character growth is somehow still possible in the Evanovich world. It has to be... books 9 - 13 were rich with it. So..... there are no explanations for the constant, recent disappointments.
This book opens with Stepha More...
I know, I know... why do I keep torturing myself? I have no answer save that after reading 18 Stephanie Plum books, I want so badly for something to happen relationship-wise between her and either one of her guys that I delude myself into believing character growth is somehow still possible in the Evanovich world. It has to be... books 9 - 13 were rich with it. So..... there are no explanations for the constant, recent disappointments.
This book opens with Stepha More...
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Feb 20, 2012
Erin
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For literally half the book I was sitting there wondering if I had missed a book. I kid you not. 96 pages it took to finally get to the point (that is literally half the book in my edition). Pretty sure I hadn't (as thanks to the Between the Numbers books, it was entirely possible that I had missed something, but not this time), I was annoyed at this new tactic. JE was trying something new. Major plot point of the book too place before we the reader joined in.
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Feb 13, 2012
Kara
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I am so glad I didn't give up after a lackluster and disappointing 17! 18 was back on track! Lulu was the same (the characters aren't growing any) and this is a problem for the Plum novels, the characters do need to grow, however, Lulu wasn't saying the same things she has been saying for the past 17 novels either. Her expression she used to death in this one was something like Wham, I started skipping over it, it brought to mind Emeril the cook. She is funny again in her typical Lulu style,
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Feb 05, 2012
Romancing the
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I'll start this off by saying that there are possible spoilers coming...
I've been reading this series for years and I used to devour the books as fast as I could, but these days I wonder why I even bother. In the beginning, I loved the freshness of the characters, the situations that Stephanie found herself in and even the love triangle between Morelli, Ranger and Stephanie.
But around book 9 or so, the freshness wore off and I felt I kept getting a rehashing of the same More...
I've been reading this series for years and I used to devour the books as fast as I could, but these days I wonder why I even bother. In the beginning, I loved the freshness of the characters, the situations that Stephanie found herself in and even the love triangle between Morelli, Ranger and Stephanie.
But around book 9 or so, the freshness wore off and I felt I kept getting a rehashing of the same More...
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Feb 02, 2012
Crystallena
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I'm late to the Stephanie Plum Game, having just picked up the series a week ago. In my defense, I've also been late to catching on to the whole New Jersey phenomenon. I attempted to watch an episode of Jersey Shore once and other than an overwhelming urge to scrub my brain, I felt I had satisfied my curiosity and also proven my theory that most people are just fucking retarded. Why else would they watch this crap? I thought, maybe, due to my age demographic (not that a lady ever gives up her ag
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Feb 01, 2012
Nyimah
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I have a love hate relationship with this series. I actually proclaimed after reading #17 that I was no longer going to read them. But the movie came out and I went to see it and I was like... I’m sure I just over reacted. So on and so forth, and so I go and get #18.
OMG... there are so many things I can love about the book. I like that they have characters I know, and I do get some laughs out of it.
BUTTTT.....
They keep doing such stupid stupid stupid thi More...
OMG... there are so many things I can love about the book. I like that they have characters I know, and I do get some laughs out of it.
BUTTTT.....
They keep doing such stupid stupid stupid thi More...
Jan 28, 2012
Katherine
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Like many of the other reviews here, I was disappointed again. Not with the book by itself. But at the series. I am tired of Stephanie not learning how to charge her damn stun gun. Seriously, even a moron would have figured this out by now, and Stephanie is not a moron, but we just keep reading the same bungles time after time. And really, Ranger and Morellie, used to be interesting about 5 novels ago, but I am so apathetic that I can barely care less. Even the characters themselves seen apathet
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Jan 25, 2012
I read a lot of comments and mixed reviews of how disappointed plum fans are after reading EXPLOSION EIGHTEEN. Most was disappointed that Stephanie hasn’t chose between Morelli or Ranger and some were burnt out on Lula’s eating habits and bitching about everything. From a male’s point of view, I have been enjoying all eighteen novels including the 4 between books. I don’t read for the romance but because Stephanie is a fun and hilarious character. Lula is only a bonus. Some of us are forget
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Jan 24, 2012
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OK…..when I picked up the latest Stephanie Plum novel, I couldn’t wait to find out which of the men in her life went to Hawaii with her. I hoped she would reveal this as soon as the book started as she usually does, but she did not. I found the beginning of the book to be exciting and it pulled me in immediately. Confession time! I was becoming wary of reading the books because More...
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OK…..when I picked up the latest Stephanie Plum novel, I couldn’t wait to find out which of the men in her life went to Hawaii with her. I hoped she would reveal this as soon as the book started as she usually does, but she did not. I found the beginning of the book to be exciting and it pulled me in immediately. Confession time! I was becoming wary of reading the books because More...
Jan 24, 2012
Kathy
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Eighteenth in the Stephanie Plum comedic romance suspense series revolving around a female bond agent and her sidekicks. The series is based in Trenton, New Jersey.
<h2>My Take</h2>
It's all about a photo of some guy that ends up in Stephanie's carry-on. Now all sorts of nasty people are after Stephanie. Including two separate teams of FBI agents.
Okay, it's taken a step up from the past three miserable installments and there were some laughs, but it's still fee More...
<h2>My Take</h2>
It's all about a photo of some guy that ends up in Stephanie's carry-on. Now all sorts of nasty people are after Stephanie. Including two separate teams of FBI agents.
Okay, it's taken a step up from the past three miserable installments and there were some laughs, but it's still fee More...
Jan 22, 2012
Norm
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I've been a big fan ... well, not big, more like tall and balding ... of Stephanie Plum ever since book one. I could overlook the icky romance stuff because they were just so fun and engaging. Plum's exploits never failed to amaze me. Like the time this former bra salesperson-turned-bounty hunter goes after some big dude who escapes custody by stripping and covering himself with Vaseline.
Priceless.
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Priceless.
I also have to admit to a bit of trepidation every time a new Plum novel came More...
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Jan 21, 2012
Teena
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Like Smokin' Seventeen, I borrowed this book from the library ... I won't buy them anymore. They have become a quick mindless read but not worth spending $30.
The main plot was silly, though I did enjoy the subplot with Joyce a bit.
As I said with the last one, the author continues to follow with her tired formula. Stephanie is lusting after Morelli and Ranger ... check. Grandma Masur needs a drive to the funeral home and tries to look at the bodies when the casket is close More...
The main plot was silly, though I did enjoy the subplot with Joyce a bit.
As I said with the last one, the author continues to follow with her tired formula. Stephanie is lusting after Morelli and Ranger ... check. Grandma Masur needs a drive to the funeral home and tries to look at the bodies when the casket is close More...
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Jan 13, 2012
Riccarla
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After being disappointed with Stephanie Plum book #17, I was a little worried about this one. However, my worries were gone like Cluck-in-a-Bucket chicken in Lula's presence. Stephanie is back and, although she is still a mess, it's getting less messy.
Stephanie arrives back from a trip to Hawaii, crushed in spirit and sporting a mysterious tan line on her land hand (ring finger). What happened with Stephanie, Morelli, AND Ranger in the sunny state? Well, no one's talking but there' More...
Stephanie arrives back from a trip to Hawaii, crushed in spirit and sporting a mysterious tan line on her land hand (ring finger). What happened with Stephanie, Morelli, AND Ranger in the sunny state? Well, no one's talking but there' More...
Jan 11, 2012
Michael
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Even though this series will never be the most engaging and well-written set of books I'll read, I still count down the days until the next installment is released. As I said in my Smokin' Seventeen review, the series had started to get back on track after a few poorly written installments (Thirteen - Sixteen). In Seventeen, there was pretty much anything a fan could ask for: a slight development of the love triangle, non-recycled humor, and a nicely-organized mystery plot.
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