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Jun 18, 2008

Cherise rated it:

I’m not going to give a book synopsis. What I am going to do is say goodbye to one of my all time favorite series. The last couple of books have been horrible, silly and ridiculous; this one was no exception.

The characters I once loved and look forward all year to hearing from are barely visible. The little quirks that used to make them unique and funny are now taking over their entire persona making them slightly moronic. The dialogue that used to be naturally witty seems forced More...

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Oct 26, 2008

Julie (jjmachshev) rated it:

OK. I may have my breath back now from laughing so hard. I just finished Janet Evanovich's "Fearless Fourteen" starring Stephanie Plum, Ranger, and Joe and I literally laughed, snorted, and guffawed my way through this book. I've read and heard some of the bad-mouthing this book has gotten and although I understand some people are anxious for Stephanie to make a choice between Ranger and Joe, I, for one, am just happy to keep reading about Stephanie's wild and zany life.

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Aug 14, 2008

Julie rated it:

After Lean Mean Thirteen I swore I was not going to go out and buy the hardcover off the shelf. I was disappointed. And then I listened to the Audio book and the interview with Janet at the end. I was more then disappointed I was MAD. JE and other people I gather, since reading other reviews, keep rambling on about this love triangle. Joe Steph and Ranger and Steph not being able to choose. Choose? Steph is living with Joe, sleeping with Joe. Ranger gets what? Not much of anything. He's i More...

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Aug 05, 2008

LJ rated it:

FEARLESS FOURTEEN (Ama. Sleuth/Humor-Stephanie Plum-New Jersey, Cont) – Poor
Evanovich, Janet – 14th in series
St. Martin’s Press, 2008, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780312349516

First Sentence: In my mind, my kitchen is filled with crackers and cheese, roast chicken leftovers, farm fresh eggs, and coffee beans ready to grind.

Stephanie keeps suspecting someone has been in the basement of her boyfriend, police detective Joe Morelli. Stephanie is baby-sitting teenaged More...

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Jun 18, 2008

Lindsay rated it:

I was very frustrated with this one.

I almost gave up several times, but stuck with it. If this had been a stand-alone book it would have immediately gone in the garbage, but since it's a Plum, I'm obligated to keep it along with the rest of the collection.

The side characters are downright annoying in this book (Brenda, Dom, Carl the Monkey to name a few) and even the regulars just didn't seem right. The whole thing felt thrown together, almost like Evanovich just want More...

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Jun 21, 2008

Dolly rated it:

What a nadir for this series. Mystery? There wasn't one. Mr Secret Identity? I'd spoil it for ya, but it wouldn't really be a surprise. Or in any way interesting. At all. The whole who-is-Zook's-baby-daddy thing? I'd spoil that for you as well, but again: it would be a big ol' letdown.

Even the funny bits weren't funny in this book. Ms Evanovich apparently got ahold of an online dictionary for MMORPG slang and made up a subplot based on it. She got some of the terms way wrong. It was More...

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Jun 18, 2008

Dianna rated it:

Okay, my rating isn't really objective - I'll admit that now. I'm a Ranger girl, and he doesn't figure prominently in this book, so I gave it a poor rating. Otherwise, it's a good, average member of the series. Not really worth the wait, imo, but once again, I'm biased. I'm also a bit disappointed that she seems to be writing towards making Joe and Steph a permanent couple.

There's an interview with Evanovich on the web (romancenovels.tv) where she says she wanted to make this series More...

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Jun 17, 2008

Shazzy rated it:

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Jun 22, 2008

Caitlin rated it:

NEEDS MOAR RANGER. I thought this book was less eventful than your average installment of Stephanie Plum's misadventures, and I thought the Brenda-related story line was a bust. But what the book lacked in plot, it made up for with actual progress in the love triangle, GASP. Or maybe not so much *actual* progress as really hitting home how much progress there's been already. I talked about it in detail over here.

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Jun 26, 2008

Deborah rated it:

Not as good as her last few. I still enjoyed it of course, there were some fun moments as usual, but I thought it kind of drug on a bit.
I think she needs to do something a bit different. Maybe concentrate the main story on one of the other characters, Grandma or Lula, or even Ranger. One of them could get in a fix and Steph could help get them out of it. Give some back story on them etc.
She seems to be in a bit of a rut, and needs a bit of change.

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Nov 25, 2008

Margarita rated it:

I really enjoyed this series early on. Now it's getting a little old, and this book in particular was quite thin on story. I got pretty impatient with Stephanie always being called, alternately by the men in her life, "cupcake" and "babe". I would like to see this series take a fresh new turn.

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Jun 20, 2008

Alison rated it:

I like some of these books better than others, I think they started going down hill after 11 (even though, as a whole I believe I gave them all 5 stars) but until this book I have never been completely disappointed.
I am so sad to say goodbye to Stephanie Plum. She did give me many hours of enjoyment.

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Jul 14, 2008

Christel rated it:

I will be serious this one time. I could not finish it!! I have loved all the Plum books until this one and I have never been so disappointed in my reading life as of a book. I probably will not read another one.

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Sep 04, 2008

Kattie rated it:

I gave this book two stars because eleven thru thirteen were so much better.

When I read the synopsis on the back cover that there were new thrills including a monkey named Carl, my first thought was, "oh man, she is way out of ideas for these books and is now resorting to gimmicks like adding a monkey."
I was relived to find that not only did Carl the monkey not have a substantial part in the book, he was barely mentioned in two places. Still don't know why he was ad More...

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Aug 31, 2008

Relyn rated it:

OK. This is the first time I have ever admitted to reading these books. Make that the second time. I told a friend who I already knew loved the books. I am taking a big leap of faith that I don't loose serious-reader points in my friends' estimations. I've talked about brain candy before. These books aren't even candy. They are more like, a dessert buffet. Absolutely no redeeming nutritional value, but a real pleasure to consume.

These books are funny! FUNNY! They are. Ye More...

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Jul 26, 2008

Betsy rated it:

I became a fan of the Stephanie Plum Series a few years ago and quickly read all of the books up to that point. I must say that I enjoy the earlier books better. Over time, just as happens with many long term sitcoms, the characters have become more "comic strip"-like and the story lines serve to showcase the characters rather than the reverse.
In book 14, there is less tension in the long-running love triangle between Joe-Stephanie-Ranger, and can anyone believe that a true lov More...

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Jul 15, 2008

Aimee rated it:

Stephanie Plum is back along with the regulars - Lula, Connie, Mom, Dad, Grandma Mazur, Tank, Bob the dog and of course Joe and Ranger. And some new characters were introduced - a young boy named Zook who is into video games; a once-famous but now sort of has-been singer named 'Brenda'; her stalker Gary and of course various 'skips' that Stephanie tries to apprehend along the way. I will admit that I still get excited when Evanovich comes out with a new book in this series. This is simply bec More...

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Jun 30, 2008

Rhonda rated it:

If you love Plum for the edgy writing, great wit, fantastic plot, and wonderful characters, forget Fearless Fourteen. Plum has always been more than just a breezy, silly, summer read for me.

I am invested in the lives of these characters. What I got this year is slapstick, unresolved sub plots, villains with no names, subject matter bordering on the distasteful, recycled plots and my favorite characters very out of character. I even recognized things said by one character in past boo More...

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Jun 27, 2008

Trudy rated it:

Here's the bottom line for me: I laughed harder at the book jacket and the first paragraph than I did at anything I remember from the rest of the book. I usually have underlines and stars all over the book to highlight funnies for my mom, but in this case, I didn't find myself reaching for the pencil all that often. I do generally love these books, but in this case, I just didn't feel it.

The plot was pretty solid (at least compared to other JE mysteries), but there were too many su More...

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Jun 17, 2008

Gdh2005 rated it:

These book have been a favorite of mine since my first year in college. They quickly became my favorite books and each year I look forward to June so I can get my "fix". Imagine my surprise when I found this book early at the grocery store, I called in sick to work just to read it. I was disappointed with Lean Mean Thirteen last year but I stuck with the her because everyone is entitled to an off year and I knew she had a lot on her plate with her daughter's wedding, etc. I refused More...

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Jul 11, 2008

Holly rated it:

I love these characters, and have treasured reading the books each year as Janet Evanovich puts them out, but as many reviewers have said, the speed that she is cranking them out may be contributing to their less than stellar contents. Maybe I'm getting tired of Stephanie not choosing either Joe Or Ranger, maybe I don't find Dolly Parton-knockoff side characters interesting enough to carry a book, or maybe Stephanie, who was really starting to grow as a person in the 8-9-10-11 book range is reve More...

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Jun 24, 2008

Liisa rated it:

I love Stephanie Plum. Joe. Ranger. Grandma Mazur. But the last few Plum adventures by Janet Evanovich haven't had the same WOW factor as the earlier books.... or if I am being brutally honest, any WOW at all.

And I feel guilty saying that because I for one, don't want the series to end (or at the very least quite yet) but I also don't want to the series to continue if this is an indication of what there is to "look forward to"!

It hurts to remember the good old d More...

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Jun 22, 2008

Mahlet rated it:

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Jun 30, 2008

Julianne rated it:

All Done. To be fair to Stephanie, I started reading these books in November of 2006. When I caught up, 13 had just come out. I was able to read one after the other, without ever getting "geared up" for the next big one. This has kept my expectations just at an even keel.

Those who are giving worse reviews of this one are expecting too much. If I just started the series and this was in the middle, it would be fine (a "filler" book). I look at this series like The B More...

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Nov 30, 2008

Brionna rated it:

While none of the books in this series are quality literature - the writing is mediocre, stories formulaic and plots redundant - this book lacks what the other books had. The endearing, though insultingly stereotypic characters lost their appeal in this book. I poured through it out of a sense of obligation to the series and was glad to have wasted time reading on a holiday weekend during which one is supposed to relax. Relax, I did. Think, I did not. My brain became more and more numb with More...

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Dec 05, 2008

Heidi rated it:

i am done with stephanie plum. i couldn't even finish this book. i just didn't care. nothing about the plot grabbed my attention. not even ranger, my favorite character, could convince me to continue in this insipid waste of time. everything that i used to love about this series is gone. the quirky humor, the joe/ranger love triangle, grandma mazur, stephanie's love of highly processed junk food, none of this had any hold on me. now the series is just crude and dull with numerous sexual referenc More...

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Aug 10, 2008

Lain rated it:

Whew. After paying full price for this in hardback at an airport bookstore, I was so relieved to find that I enjoyed it MUCH more than the previous few entries in this series. Finally, I felt we were back to all that I loved about Stephanie and gang, without the formulaic feel that 12 and 13 had.

Sure, there's everything you can expect from a Plum mystery -- a wild Grandma Mazur, a hot Joe and Ranger, a crazy Lula, and more -- but Stephanie's quest for a missing $9 million and a kidna More...

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Jun 13, 2008

Traci rated it:

While Stephanie Plum is always fun to read about, this fourteenth installment of the series seemed to be lacking something. I THINK it was probably too little of Ranger, but maybe Evanovich is getting a bit tired of the series. Still, this one is just as worth reading as the rest of the series, especially if you need a good pick-me-up.

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Mar 24, 2009

Agathafrye rated it:

Another fun Stephanie Plum romp. As with the others in the SP series, this was a super quick read. I particularly enjoyed a few of the subplots in this one- Lula has decided she should get married to her strong, silent boyfriend Tank, so she buys herself a ring and slips it on while Tank is taking a nap, then tries to convince him that he proposed to her when he wakes up. Stephanie and Morelli also become responsible for caring for a teenage gamer and graffiti artist named Zook when his mothe More...

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Nov 15, 2008

Diane rated it:

Sometimes a girl just has to take a break from the serious issues of the day and read a Stephanie Plum book. This is book number 14 and Stephanie seems to be wearing down under the strain of all the mishaps that make her life a living hell. However, she still has the two men, Joe and Ranger, lusting after her body, a body that never seems to show the ill effects of chowing down on donuts, pizza, fried chicken, and whatever other piece of cholesterol-raising, high calorie food that comes her way. More...

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