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Title: Hard Eight : A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0-312-98386-7 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (320 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stephanie Plum Character Expands Her Horizons
Comment: The book is just a bit different from previous Stephanie Plum novels. Stephanie has just moved a bit into the darker side (but so has Spielberg in Minority Report).
Stephanie Plum fans will enjoy the book, still has the humor and the fun characters you've come to know and love.
New readers looking for mystery will enjoy the story and should appreciate the humor which is far different than any other mystery writer.
If you are looking for humor and romance with a touch of mystery in the background....read one of the other seven Stephanie Plum books first.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bunny Girl
Comment: Janet Evanovich has created a very loveable, bumbling, character in Stephanie Plum. Hard Eight, is the eighth book in her number entitled series about this amateur bounty hunter and her exploits. Stephanie works for her slimy cousin Vinnie as a bond enforcement officer. The idea being she is supposed to earn a living in capturing your run of the mill criminals who haven't fronted up for their court dates. Only Stephanie always has trouble with that part and as a result, usually gets more than a scrape on the knee and has to call for back up. Enter the two male interests that are more than professional, Joe Morelli the Cop and Ranger the Cuban heart throb and renegade bounty hunter.
In Hard Eight, Stephanie actually shows some backbone and a little bit of improvement in her law enforcement job skills and it's about time too. It's good to see the action is plentiful, the laughs and one liners are original. Janet Evanovich has finally let Stephanie grow up with her skills and have some luck in life. Considering it has taken eight books for her to improve, from a screaming pair of legs with 'Jersey hair' who lives off junk food.
This time round, Stephanie's paycheck depends on whether she can catch Eddie Abruzzi. Without getting killed by the ex mobster boss and all around psychopath. Besides trying to make dinner time at her parents house, dodge death callings from Abruzzi, cars exploding, Stephanie has to deal with a few other matters at hand. Her confusion over Ranger her sometimes partner in crime and bounty hunter back up and Joe Morelli's role in her life, and hers in his. Plus there is the added bonus of the disappearance of a child involved in a custody case of a family friend.
All the good parts that Evanovich had in her first Plum novel are still here. Rex the hamster and survivor extraordinaire, the grandma from hell - Grandma Murzer, Steph's car issues, the ex-prostitute and Cagney and Lacey wannabe - Lula.
Janet Evanovoich has gone all out with Hard Eight, making it a full on novel of action and laughs which is good to see. I felt she got a little mundane in a few of the other Stephanie Plum novels. However, she retains me as an avid fan with this one.
I can't wait to see what Ms Evanovich and Ms Plum have install for us in the next two books in this series!
Rating: 2
Summary: If your a fan, wait for paperback...
Comment: For readers new to this series, the earlier books are lively, funny stories of Stephanie Plum's(a New Jersy Bouny Hunter) misadventures in the Berg. Culminating with this book, more recent offerings fall short of the mark, with stale plots, cutsie writing and underdeveloped main characters. Her recent books generally follow the same pattern of too many pages of screwball antics of Stephanie Plum and various (somewhat interchangable) sidekicks, shallow interactions with Ranger(mysterious hero) or Morelli (potential soul mate)mainly involving sex (or not) and quick resolution of underlying menance in last 50 pages, with the so "unexpected" cliffhanger reflecting a trite "will she, wont she" relationship with both men. At least in Hard Eight Stephanie makes some decision, although it took some 200 pages of "antics" to get to it, and she decided, changed her mind and got the bad guy in the remaining 60 (or so) pages. The resolution of the main plot and Stephanie's personal relationships seem tacked on and rushed.
Die hard fans will of course read it. I can only say I wish I had waited for the paperback.
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Title: Seven Up by Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0312980140 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hot Six : A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0312976275 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0312265867 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: High Five by Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0312971346 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Four To Score by Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0312966970 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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