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Hot Stuff
by
Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author),
Leanne Banks
Dear Reader,
If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you're going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like men and marriage. She spends all day in school, earning her teaching degree, and all night workin...more
If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you're going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like men and marriage. She spends all day in school, earning her teaching degree, and all night workin...more
Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Published
April 3rd 2007
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
(first published April 1st 2007)
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Nov 30, 2008
Loreta
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Those who like to laugh!
Recommended to Loreta by:
Previous experience with Janet Evanovich.
Shelves:
fun
This was a quick read, very amusing characters and rhetoric. There were some sexy incidents but not overly so. I found myself laughing out loud (which is usual when I read Janet Evanovich). This was a good pairing with Leanne Banks and, if they write another together, sign me up!
The main character is a student working as a bartender evenings to pay for her classes/living expenses. She rents a room from a female impersonator who disappears but sends her a big slobbery dog for protection while he'...more
The main character is a student working as a bartender evenings to pay for her classes/living expenses. She rents a room from a female impersonator who disappears but sends her a big slobbery dog for protection while he'...more
Loved it...similar to Stephanie Plum series. Read all Janet's books and as along as Lorelei King iks performing - sure to please. Get the audio to enjoy it at its best.
STUFF introduces Cate, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like men and marriage. She spends all day in school, earning her teaching degree, and all night working as a bartender in Boston's South End. Ex-cop Kellen McBride has decided t...more
STUFF introduces Cate, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like men and marriage. She spends all day in school, earning her teaching degree, and all night working as a bartender in Boston's South End. Ex-cop Kellen McBride has decided t...more
3.5/5 (C+)
Review: So, this book was all right in my opinion. It had it funny moments where I did laugh out loud, but that's to be expected from Ms Evanovich and Ms Banks. I'd say the book sounds a lot more like most of Ms Evanovich's books though with a very similar style. All in all, you'll get a good laugh, but it's not the best book by either author.
The Character - Cate's character was okay, except for the fact where she swore off man. I mean, I understand why, but when someone's yummy as Kel...more
Review: So, this book was all right in my opinion. It had it funny moments where I did laugh out loud, but that's to be expected from Ms Evanovich and Ms Banks. I'd say the book sounds a lot more like most of Ms Evanovich's books though with a very similar style. All in all, you'll get a good laugh, but it's not the best book by either author.
The Character - Cate's character was okay, except for the fact where she swore off man. I mean, I understand why, but when someone's yummy as Kel...more
"Hmmm" comes to mind, but I think I will settle with I liked it. It kind of has the first Plum ideas in it even though I shouldn't compare the books or story lines.
I liked Cate and her family which with an Irish background is easy to do. Being the youngest in the family, not only the parents still worry about the mid-twenties Cate, but her brothers as well.
Cate sublets a room from Marty, who seems to be in trouble. Add Kellen McBride who is supposed to investigate, but does not only that, he f...more
I liked Cate and her family which with an Irish background is easy to do. Being the youngest in the family, not only the parents still worry about the mid-twenties Cate, but her brothers as well.
Cate sublets a room from Marty, who seems to be in trouble. Add Kellen McBride who is supposed to investigate, but does not only that, he f...more
This was very nearly a DNF for me. I really struggled with forming an attachment to any of the characters. I found the main character, Cate, to have too little common-sense and too much trust in complete strangers. I also thought she was waaaay too naive and kind of dumb. I know this was supposed to be a light-hearted, fluffy read, but I just couldn't get behind ANY of Cate's actions. Also, there was absolutely NO emotional payoff in this book. There is a death in this book, and not one of the c...more
Some books are meant to be read for the fun of reading. Hot Stuff by Janet Evanovich and Leanne Banks is one of those books. Janet is stepping away from Stephanie Plum on this one, but she's not stepping away from a fun mystery/suspense story that is full of humor and some zany characters. Zany? What is zany anyway? Zany is Patrick Pugg who is always saying stuff like "Pugg thinks....." Pugg doesn't use the word "I" until, Cate's neighbor Julie offers to rearrange certain parts of his anatomy!
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Jul 12, 2012
steph
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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4 stars.
This book was a perfect summer read. Very amusing characters, slightly formulic in terms of the storyline and the way the main character's family was portrayed (Irish, loud, nosy etc) but it was still well done. I laughed out loud quite a few times and even though the mystery was easy to spot a mile away, I still enjoyed the ending and seeing everything wrapped up. Really fun book.
I got this as a playaway (my first playaway!) and listened to it as I ran the last few morning and I have t...more
This book was a perfect summer read. Very amusing characters, slightly formulic in terms of the storyline and the way the main character's family was portrayed (Irish, loud, nosy etc) but it was still well done. I laughed out loud quite a few times and even though the mystery was easy to spot a mile away, I still enjoyed the ending and seeing everything wrapped up. Really fun book.
I got this as a playaway (my first playaway!) and listened to it as I ran the last few morning and I have t...more
I didn't get much read in April with all the travel and visiting I was doing. I was so tired on the flight over that I stuck to sudoku and movie-watching. A fellow passenger gave me a Janet Evanovich book on our way into Portland called Hot Stuff. It was very light reading, even more so than her Stephanie Plum mysteries, but it was cute and funny and suited my mood.
This is a typical Evanovich smut book. You'll laugh out loud many times. Don't know if this is the start to a new series or just a one off. It ended so if there aren't any more, that's fine. No cliffhangers or anything. Quick fun read.
I am having a hard time reviewing this book. The overall plot was great! I liked the idea behind it and I liked the mystery my problem is that parts of the plot development were severally lacking... The authors would have done well to add another 50 pages and explain a few more things instead of having some of the exciting moments happen in a "suddenly, almost out of no where" feel to them.
That being said, I liked the hero, I loved the main character, the secondary characters were wonderful and...more
That being said, I liked the hero, I loved the main character, the secondary characters were wonderful and...more
This book was lots of fun to read. It's a screwball romantic comedy, with an assortment of quirky characters, plenty of witty dialogue, some ridiculously funny situations, a bit of a mystery, and a Bullmastiff named Beast.
Title: Hot Stuff
Author: Janet Evanovich & Leanne Banks
Genre: Chick-lit/Romance
Challenges: 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, Chick Lit Challenge 2, Pages Read Challenge 2009, Books Around the States Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge
Rating: 5/5
No. of Pages: 352
Published: 2007
From the back:
Cate Madigan isn’t asking for trouble. Her wacky Irish family is constantly palying matchmaker for her with men who leave much to be desired. All she wants is peach and quiet and a...more
Author: Janet Evanovich & Leanne Banks
Genre: Chick-lit/Romance
Challenges: 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, Chick Lit Challenge 2, Pages Read Challenge 2009, Books Around the States Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge
Rating: 5/5
No. of Pages: 352
Published: 2007
From the back:
Cate Madigan isn’t asking for trouble. Her wacky Irish family is constantly palying matchmaker for her with men who leave much to be desired. All she wants is peach and quiet and a...more
If you're a Janet Evanovich and a Stephanie Plum fan, you will like this book. So I did like it (because I am a fan), but it was very formulaic. It has a lot of the same themes and character traits as many of Ms. Evanovich's other books. Basically, the main character, Cate, finds herself in the middle of an unsolved mystery situation with bad guys after her. The man in her life, Kellan, is hot, sexy, and helpful with the investigation and solving the mystery, etc., etc. The secondary characters,...more
What an adorable book! If I didn't know better, I would think Cate Madigan and Stephanie Plum are twins! They are SO alike it's scary!! =)
I needed a funny and not intense something to listen to. Hot Stuff fit the bill. The reader (who is the same for her One for the Money series) is fabulous. It is a cute romance with a great big dog, a thieving drag queen, a down home quirky commentator neighbor, a nosy neighbor, a stalker who refers to himself in 3rd person who tries to be a hero, and of course the main gal-the bartender struggling through school who bakes and the mystery man who shows up on a black horse (her dream-he drives a...more
I read Hot Stuff after reading the Stephanie Plum series and I was sorely disappointed. It was not funny....at all! The book is about a guy and girl who meet at a bar and fall in love within 3 days, oh and the girl also falls in love wiht a dog, whom she also met 3 days earlier. That's it. That's the story.
It is a mystery and there actually IS more to the story, but after reading it, that's all I got to tell ya. It was pretty boring. The story was a knock-off, the romance was mediocre, the char...more
It is a mystery and there actually IS more to the story, but after reading it, that's all I got to tell ya. It was pretty boring. The story was a knock-off, the romance was mediocre, the char...more
I'm a big Evanovich fan, and while this isn't her Stephanie Plum character, it was still pretty good.
I laughed out loud a lot! Don't remember vulgarity in this one (as opposed to the Plum series).
This book was a super quick read. The printing is VERY large, so it seems longer by page count, but it would probably be at the very least, half the size at least in pages, if the printing were normal and the pages werent small. The book itself was fluff, but not really interesting fluff. I often like fluff. It just never seemed developed. I liked that it was set in boston, because I used to live in boston. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t anything in the slightest way special. Still, I got through...more
Sure, there were a lot of similarities between this book and the Plum series, but who cares? Janet Evanovich and Leanna Banks are both great, creative authors, and Hot Stuff is funny, cute, and an easy read. Irish bartender Cate Madigan gets tangled in her cross-dressing roommates problems. In the meantime, she meets the mysterious, sexy, and possibly good guy, Kellen McBride. Falling in love in a few days isn't the most believable, but it's still a good little book. Anyone looking for a quick,...more
This one was cute and funny with a new set of characters that are Irish/American
and Cate is the main character. It is funny with odd characters and cute. Not
as funny a family as in her Stephanie Plum series but this one is fun and a
quick read. Co-authored by Leanne Banks. Plot is interesting with Cate living
in Boston with a drag queen while she attends college and has family dinners at
home. Then things get interesting when her roommate goes missing and she
receives a dog to take care of till he...more
and Cate is the main character. It is funny with odd characters and cute. Not
as funny a family as in her Stephanie Plum series but this one is fun and a
quick read. Co-authored by Leanne Banks. Plot is interesting with Cate living
in Boston with a drag queen while she attends college and has family dinners at
home. Then things get interesting when her roommate goes missing and she
receives a dog to take care of till he...more
Cate Madigan, age 26, the only unmarried one in a large family. She bartends by night, attends college by day, and likes to make cakes. She saves money by sharing an apartment with Marty Longfellow, a South End drag queen, who performs at the bar. At the end of the bar, looking mysterious, is Kellen McBride -- a mysterious, dark-haired guy at the end of the bar! No wonder her friends in the building call him Mr. Tall, Dark, and Yummy -- or Mr. Yummy, for short. He's an investigator, specializing...more
This was a fun romp, it was a quick read and fun from start to finish.
Cate Madigan rents a room from a cross dresser Marty Longfellow, she goes to college during the day and works at a bar in the evenings. She has two good friends Julie and Sharon who live in the same complex as hers. Her family are always trying to find a mate for her and this time it is Patrick Pugg who when he talks about himself says Pugg did this and Pugg likes this instead of using the work I. Cate decides he is not for he...more
Cate Madigan rents a room from a cross dresser Marty Longfellow, she goes to college during the day and works at a bar in the evenings. She has two good friends Julie and Sharon who live in the same complex as hers. Her family are always trying to find a mate for her and this time it is Patrick Pugg who when he talks about himself says Pugg did this and Pugg likes this instead of using the work I. Cate decides he is not for he...more
Cate Madigan is used to constantly having her loving Irish Catholic family setting her up with random men for dates. She is the youngest in her family and the only unmarried one. She might be used to it, but she hates it. The dates have never lived up to her expectations. She is twenty-six and a student trying to get her teaching degree. She figures if she can handle four brothers, then a classroom of 8 year olds should be a piece of cake. When Cate is not in school she is tending bar at a local...more
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Hot Stuff Left Me Cold, April 9, 2007
I am a huge Janet Evanovich fan; this is not one of her better stories. The book jacket summary sounded very interesting to me, it had real potential to be a lighthearted, intriguing romance. The book started out decent enough, I immediately liked the main character, Cate, and fell for her and her crazy Irish family. At the same time I was falling for the Madigan's I was introduced to a not so loveable character, Patrick Pugg. This guy is so annoying it real...more
I am a huge Janet Evanovich fan; this is not one of her better stories. The book jacket summary sounded very interesting to me, it had real potential to be a lighthearted, intriguing romance. The book started out decent enough, I immediately liked the main character, Cate, and fell for her and her crazy Irish family. At the same time I was falling for the Madigan's I was introduced to a not so loveable character, Patrick Pugg. This guy is so annoying it real...more
This wasn't one of Evanovich's better books. It didn't have as many LOL moments as her other books. One thing I didn't like about it was that she was trying to make it a mystery, but still trying to use the formula she uses in all her stand alone romance books. It just didn't work for me. The supporting characters were not very good either. With all that said, it was fluff and I knew it would be fluff, so my expectations weren't high, but it could have been better. She is still a great author, b...more
In "Hot Stuff" Cste Madigan didn't plan to fall in love with Kellen Koster. All she wanted to do was get herself through college by working at the Boston pub. But when her room mate Marty Fongfellow goes missing leaving behind a sloppy bullmastiff puppy she finds her world is about to change. When Marty turns out to be a jewel theif and Kellen a salvage that wants to bust Marty. Finding dead people in Cate's apartment is only the begining of her probkems.
I have been a fan of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series for over a year now and picked this book up from a "Free" shelf at our local library. It was a "light" read that I really enjoyed and was happy that I grabbed it. It is a shame that it is a "stand-alone" book because I would have liked to have read more about the characters in the story. If Evanovich and Banks write more about Cate's adventures, I would definitely purchase a copy!
This was the first book I've read this summer. So refreshing from the more proper literature we are forced to read during the school year. Not that any thing is wrong with that... But you have to admit, the idea of being forced to read something for a grade takes the fun out of reading.
This book wasn't well edited but was a lot of fun. Took me about 3 hours to read it. Great way to spend a few hours on a warm summer night.
This book wasn't well edited but was a lot of fun. Took me about 3 hours to read it. Great way to spend a few hours on a warm summer night.
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“She doesn’t know,” Cate said. “Kellen is a secret. I didn’t think my mother would approve.”
“Why wouldn’t your mother approve?” Pugg asked.
“It’s my job,” Kellen said. “I kill people. It pays well, but it’s not universally socially acceptable.”
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“Why wouldn’t your mother approve?” Pugg asked.
“It’s my job,” Kellen said. “I kill people. It pays well, but it’s not universally socially acceptable.”
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