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Seven Up (Stephanie Plum #7)
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BLOWN UP
All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he's still got a knack for slipping out of sight--and raising hel...more
#1 New York Times
#1 Wall Street Journal
#1 Entertainment Weekly
#1 Publishers Weekly
#1 Booksense
#1 Los Angeles Times
BLOWN UP
All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he's still got a knack for slipping out of sight--and raising hel...more
Mass Market Paperback, 337 pages
Published
June 17th 2002
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
(first published July 19th 2001)
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OK I didn't add reviews to the last several books in this series because I was out of town (stuck in a snowstorm back east)& didn't get to my computer until today. I made two trips to Barnes & Noble while we were back east because I couldn't wait to get more of these books. This series in hilarious!!! Very quick reads too - perfect for passing the time in an airport with nothing else to do. I can't decide who my favorites are yet - either Grandma Mazur or Lulu. They both crack me up. I had sever...more
Yes, I read book 6 and 7 in one day . . . I am on medical leave. It is the weekend. These books are my entertainment. So, book 7 finds us looking for an old retired Mob guy who may have killed a kind old lady. Ranger ups the heat on Stephanie by making a deal with her . . . if she wants his help it is going to cost her. Stephanie attempts to entertain the wedding proposal and out of fear of giving her mother, who comes unglued when perfect daughter Valerie returns home after her marriage crum...more
Bob the dog is still around. Mooner, the dejected stoner is still around—although his roommate seems to have turned up missing and Mooner just might have to move in with Stephanie for protection when the bodies start showing up. Mooner’s roommate, by the way is called Dealer because, despite his penchant for administering your standard cocaine derived drugs to the neighborhood, he supplies vast amounts of Metamucil to the senior citizens and an incredible discount. So you can see why all hell br...more
I may be sized more like Lula than Stephanie, but Lycra leggings and a rugby top - my version of her spandex shorts and hockey top - are a comfortable combination I think I'd been neglecting of late, so thanks to Ms Evanovich for reminding me of them.
To the book. Glad to see Dougie & Mooner are still around - not being a dog-lover, I'm less certain about Bob - and a big hello to once perfect Valerie and her children. OK, so the latter have nothing to do with the main storyline of smu...more
To the book. Glad to see Dougie & Mooner are still around - not being a dog-lover, I'm less certain about Bob - and a big hello to once perfect Valerie and her children. OK, so the latter have nothing to do with the main storyline of smu...more
Those who have yet to discover Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum and her weird relatives and relationships are missing a huge treat or living in a
cave. I recommend beginning with the first in the series, One for the Money, but Seven Up stands alone quite well.
Grandma Mazur has finally gotten her driver’s license, bought a red Corvette, and lost the driver’s license for too many speeding tickets,
all in the space of five days. The scenes at the dinner table are always my favorite ...more
cave. I recommend beginning with the first in the series, One for the Money, but Seven Up stands alone quite well.
Grandma Mazur has finally gotten her driver’s license, bought a red Corvette, and lost the driver’s license for too many speeding tickets,
all in the space of five days. The scenes at the dinner table are always my favorite ...more
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This was another roll-on-the-floor-laughing-helplessly entry in the Stephanie Plum series. Stephanie's after another ancient mob-connected FTA who seems to have an uncanny ability to disappear even when she seemingly has him in her grasp. The plot revolves around the disappearance of a mob guy's heart. It was removed after his recent death and thereby hangs a tale. Amidst it all, Stephanie's perfect sister turns up with her two kids, in from California where her perfect husband has just taken ...more
Semi-retired mob guy, Eddie DeChooch, is caught trafficking contraband cigarettes through Trenton, New Jersey. When DeChooch fails to show for a court appearance, bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum is assigned the task of finding DeChooch and dragging his decrepit ass back to jail. Not such an easy job, it turns out, since DeChooch has learned a lot of tricks over the years and isn't afraid to use his gun. He's already shot Loretta Ricci and left her for worm food in his shed. He wouldn't min...more
The smash hit No. 1 bestselling author takes you on the ride of your life in the seventh Stephanie Plum adventure. Stephanie thinks she's going after an easy FTA: a senior citizen charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes. But when she and Lula show up at his house, they get more than they bargained for - a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam. Stephanie's mind is on other matters, however, because she has two proposals to consider vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage, and f...more
Is it possible to give zero stars? This book was awful. One of the few times in my life where I thougth to myself, "I could have written this same story and same characters myself, and it would have been much better." Does this woman even have a college degree? Did she go to SLCK? Salt Lake Community Kollege? Please don't read this book, you will get dumber. The main character is unlikeable, a tramp, and an embarrassment to women everywhere. America needs to do better than this book. Y...more
New Jersey's most inept bounty hunter is back to bring in her man in the latest mystery by Janet Evanovich, the phenom former romance writer whose quirky characters have catapulted this rollicking mystery series to the top of the bestseller charts. Janet Evanovich’s Seven Up mesmerized me with it’s dazzling mysteries.
Stephanie stands to make a quick five grand, which she needs to make payments on a hot new car to replace the one wrecked in HOT SIX, by picking up an elderly bond jumpe...more
Stephanie stands to make a quick five grand, which she needs to make payments on a hot new car to replace the one wrecked in HOT SIX, by picking up an elderly bond jumpe...more
I was thoroughly entertained by this Stephanie Plum novel. It was fast paced and interesting, causing me to have difficulty putting it down. I enjoyed the humor in the book and found reading it to be a great experience.
Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter, is called upon to apprehend an elderly gentleman, Eddie DeChooch. The job isn't as easy as it sounded, and Stephanie is soon caught up in a convoluted and tangled mess involving numerous shady characters. Further complicating her life...more
Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter, is called upon to apprehend an elderly gentleman, Eddie DeChooch. The job isn't as easy as it sounded, and Stephanie is soon caught up in a convoluted and tangled mess involving numerous shady characters. Further complicating her life...more
I thought after taking a break with a few other books, I would be OK reading Stephanie Plum again. Wrong! Not a few pages in, Stephanie is once again inept and idiotic. She really annoyed me that after 40% through the book, I started skimming. I don't know if I want to continue reading this series anymore. The secondary characters are what have kept my interest but now even that is not enough to get me through Stephanie's stupidity.
**Edited to add...after reading this review of ...more
**Edited to add...after reading this review of ...more
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Stephanie has to bring in Eddie DeChooch, a senior citizen who was caught smuggling cigarettes. How hard can it be to bring in a old man? Stephanie takes Lulu, an oversize ex-prostitute with her and Eddie escapes out the bathroom window. Eddie escapes time and time again. Eddie also has no trouble in shooting his gun. However, he does have trouble in seeing. After finding a dead body in Eddie's shed, the police also are trying to find Eddie.
Stephanie's family is now planning her weddin...more
Stephanie's family is now planning her weddin...more
I read this as an unabridged audiobook and though the story was as amusing as ever the narrator slaughtered the story.
Initially I was thrilled when I received the unabridged audiotape version of Seven Up. I love Stephanie Plum and her bumbling bounty hunter adventures and figured these tapes would be a welcome distraction during my long drive to and from work. But once I actually started listening to tape one I wasn't quite so thrilled.
Now don't get me wrong, the story here...more
Initially I was thrilled when I received the unabridged audiotape version of Seven Up. I love Stephanie Plum and her bumbling bounty hunter adventures and figured these tapes would be a welcome distraction during my long drive to and from work. But once I actually started listening to tape one I wasn't quite so thrilled.
Now don't get me wrong, the story here...more
This book is out and out hilarious. There were some points when I almost cried from laughing (mud pits? pig hearts?) Much more creative than Hot Six or High Five in that regard.
However - while this book itself is very good - fast-paced, energetic, tense, and hilarious - the series is starting to get dull for me. Although the individual incidents and characters are funny and interesting, the books are becoming all essentially the same. Stephanie is tracked by people who are tryin...more
However - while this book itself is very good - fast-paced, energetic, tense, and hilarious - the series is starting to get dull for me. Although the individual incidents and characters are funny and interesting, the books are becoming all essentially the same. Stephanie is tracked by people who are tryin...more
My favorite part:
"That's the dumbest load of shit I ever heard," Lula said, biting into a chicken thigh. She stopped talking and chewing and opened her eyes wide. "Urg," she said. Then she started waving her arms and clutching her throat.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
More throat clutching.
"Whack her on the back," someone offered from another table.
"That doesn't work," someone else said. "You're supposed to d...more
"That's the dumbest load of shit I ever heard," Lula said, biting into a chicken thigh. She stopped talking and chewing and opened her eyes wide. "Urg," she said. Then she started waving her arms and clutching her throat.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
More throat clutching.
"Whack her on the back," someone offered from another table.
"That doesn't work," someone else said. "You're supposed to d...more
Cracker Barrel restaurants have this cool program where you can "buy" an audio book at one restaurant and "return" it minus about a $4 rental fee at another of their restaurants. Unfortunately, I am driving a car on my current road trip with only a cassette tape deck , and the only audio book the Missoula Cracker Barrel had on cassette was this one.
Years ago, I had liked "One for the Money," which introduced the wisecracking bounty-hunting Stephanie Plu...more
Years ago, I had liked "One for the Money," which introduced the wisecracking bounty-hunting Stephanie Plu...more
Ihr nächster Auftrag sollte für Kautionsdetektivin Stephanie Plum eigentlich ein Spaziergang werden: Eddie DeCooch, angeklagt wegen Zigarettenschmuggel, ist steinalt, depressiv und halb blind -- so einer müsste im Handumdrehen vor Gericht zu bringen sein. Doch der Senior ist renitenter als erwartet und er schießt auch noch ganz gut, wie eine tote Dame in seinem Schuppen beweist.
Überhaupt zieht Stephanies siebter Fall größere Kreise als erwartet. Irgendwie scheinen ihre Freunde MoonMan und ...more
Überhaupt zieht Stephanies siebter Fall größere Kreise als erwartet. Irgendwie scheinen ihre Freunde MoonMan und ...more
In Seven Up, Stephanie has to bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. Although he’s old, I guess you could say he’s wily. She finds a course riddled with bullets in his garage, and every time she gets close to capturing him, he easily manages to get away. He ends up riding around town in a white Cadillac and stops to talk to Stephanie many times, including once at a funeral viewing, and yet neither she nor the cops can get a hold of him. Ranger makes a deal with Stephanie that if she f...more
Stephanie Plum is a not so average woman who lives in New Jersey. She works as a bounty hunter. She has off again on again boyfriend named Joe Morrelli who can melt your heart with a single look. She has a possible affair with her almost bounty hunter partner, Ranger who is a very hot Cuban-American.
In this book she's chasing an old man named Eddie DeChooch who is a depressed 80 year old man. At the beginning DeChooch got away from by going through his bedroom window. Then he kept on getti...more
In this book she's chasing an old man named Eddie DeChooch who is a depressed 80 year old man. At the beginning DeChooch got away from by going through his bedroom window. Then he kept on getti...more
I know people really love this series, but I am only finding it ok. I have liked some parts of some books, but overall I'm not in love with them.
In this 7th book, it's more of the same. Feed Rex, check the contents of her purse, make up her hair big, ignore the semi-serious relationship with Joe while continuing to lust after Ranger, take Grandma Mazur to a viewing, blah, blah blah. It's a cookie utter, that I actually mind less when I'm listening to than reading. I usually listen...more
In this 7th book, it's more of the same. Feed Rex, check the contents of her purse, make up her hair big, ignore the semi-serious relationship with Joe while continuing to lust after Ranger, take Grandma Mazur to a viewing, blah, blah blah. It's a cookie utter, that I actually mind less when I'm listening to than reading. I usually listen...more
Eddie DeChooch as a baddie kind of annoyed me. The line of "I'm depressed" got really old coming from him. It was a stupid excuse as to why he didn't want to go to jail. I think I would have been happier if he just kept it at "Fuck off. I don't wanna go."
Bob being still in the picture was highly amusing. Though if I knew anyone in real life who let their dog behave like that, I would call the ASPCA. Human food is NOT dog food.
Morelli I still love. Ranger ...more
Bob being still in the picture was highly amusing. Though if I knew anyone in real life who let their dog behave like that, I would call the ASPCA. Human food is NOT dog food.
Morelli I still love. Ranger ...more
This book wasn't as good as her others. That being said, it still made me laugh out loud. This book was still an entertaining page turner that left me wanting more.
Stephanie kills a car again. Can't have a novel where Steph doesn't blow up a car or destroy it in some way (Thank goodness for the ole standby Buick but actually Steph didn't need it in this book since she Vinnie let her borrow a Harley!).
Grandma Mazur is still as hiilarious, Lula too! Perfect Sister Valerie ...more
Stephanie kills a car again. Can't have a novel where Steph doesn't blow up a car or destroy it in some way (Thank goodness for the ole standby Buick but actually Steph didn't need it in this book since she Vinnie let her borrow a Harley!).
Grandma Mazur is still as hiilarious, Lula too! Perfect Sister Valerie ...more
Seven Up had a lot of improvements over previous books, and seemed to recover from the Mid-Series Sag that the last book suffered from. However, I am still seeing a lot of warning signs that future books might not be as enjoyable.
Sign #1 was that there was ANOTHER useless background character added to the cast. The books seem to add one or two per book, and there's a fairly established pattern of who else shows up for new, non-repeating characters. So on that front, I worry that, ...more
Sign #1 was that there was ANOTHER useless background character added to the cast. The books seem to add one or two per book, and there's a fairly established pattern of who else shows up for new, non-repeating characters. So on that front, I worry that, ...more
Stephanie Plum, half-Italian, half-Hungarian, a shrewd mixture of smarts and dumb luck, works for her cousin Vinny as a bail bondswoman in Trenton, New Jersey. Vinny, however, is in deep fecal matter, owing too much money to the very scary guys who have kidnapped him. Stephanie, office manager Connie, and Lula, plus-sized and focused (if not on the job at hand), manage to spring Vinny (more than once) and find a lot of money to pay what he owes. Along the way, they facilitate a cow stampede and ...more
Stephanie Plum, bond enforcement officer, a.k.a. bounty hunter, of Trenton, New Jersey, is certainly spinning her wheels on her latest assignment. Eddie DeChooch, a geriatric who dated her Grandma, got caught bootlegging cigs from Virginia. Somehow the job got botched leaving DeChooch scrambling to fix things. An old dead woman is found in DeChooch's shed and two old geezers keep breaking into Stephanie's apartment. Nothing out of the ordinary for Stephanie Plum.
Old high school class...more
Old high school class...more
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...more
Once again I enoyed another Stephanie Plum novel. Lots of funny moments that had me smiling and just flat out laughing out loud. Mooner and Grandma Mazur dressed in outfits like a superhero is hilarious to imagine. The introduction of sister Valerie was hilarious, with her path to a new lifestyle-- looking forward to reading more about Valerie in the future.
I was very glad to see the return of Bob the golden retriever (I am a golden owner!). I can sympathize with Stephanie and Joe, my gold...more
I was very glad to see the return of Bob the golden retriever (I am a golden owner!). I can sympathize with Stephanie and Joe, my gold...more
Not my favorite, but enjoyable nonetheless.
Totaled car? check.
Viewing at Stiva's? check.
Bad guys? check.
Hot guys? check and check.
Random guys breaking into Stephanie's apartment? check.
Quips about NJ and all its beauty? check.
So, what's different? Stephanie is trying on wedding gowns and her previously perfect sister is trying on lesbian for a while. Moon Man and Dougie are missing, a mobster has a heart attack, and there are ...more
Totaled car? check.
Viewing at Stiva's? check.
Bad guys? check.
Hot guys? check and check.
Random guys breaking into Stephanie's apartment? check.
Quips about NJ and all its beauty? check.
So, what's different? Stephanie is trying on wedding gowns and her previously perfect sister is trying on lesbian for a while. Moon Man and Dougie are missing, a mobster has a heart attack, and there are ...more
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“Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
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