My fav Stephanie Plum so far!

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Ranger is forever my favourite male character after this book. I could not stop reading it. It's funny, intense, and sometimes really sad.

3,5* blijft leuk

One of the best that I have read so far! Very engrossing yet still lol funny!

a great reread for the summer

I love Stephanie Plum and this book was one of the best. There is a look alike Ranger going around killing people and steals the real Rangers daughter and now wants Stephanie as well. A great story so well written that kept me page turning. I laughed at Stephanie's grandmother and Lula. Sighed over Ranger and Morelli still fighting over Stephanie and just had a great time reading this book.

First, I would like to say that a. I did not purchase this book b. I am suffering from jet lag induced insomnia and c. as a result of this insomnia I wasn't up to anything super intellectual at 4 AM so I thought I'd try the book my mom got for free at her company picnic in July.

Obviously I wasn't thinking properly, period.

I saw how bad this book was by page two (gratuitous descriptions of characters? CHECK over exposition CHECK fantastical plot/characters? CHECK) but kept going. I figured, it's book twelve of a series, there must be something redeeming or else she couldn't have gotten so far, plus it's set in Jersey (Trenton area) and that's always great. :)

There were some interesting characters, such as Lula the former "'ho" (her spelling, not min) and the other employees of the bond agency were main character, Stephanie Plum, works, but the tantalizing men in her life? I'd take Morelli's (who she disconcertingly refers to as Joe TWICE, but that might be because she is on book 12 of this bizarre crime-laden love triangle) dog, Bob, over him. Bad boy Ranger isn't particularly exciting either (not just saying this because she gyps on sex scenes and has painfully not-sexy banter). Thanks to Evanovich's extraordinarily detailed fantasy life, however, I can picture exactly what he looks like.

Now that I see what all the fuss is about, I can assure you that I won't be reading any more of her novels. The mystery of who Stephanie finally settles down with will just remain unsolved for me.

My absolute favorite of the series thus far! 12 is a wonderful balance of humor and tension, with a determinedly different plotline. I don't know how she does it, but Evanovich keeps this series fresh and entertaining with every addition.

I'll admit, I'm getting a bit tired of the Ranger-or-Joe debate. Mostly because I've never been a girl who loves the bad boys, so the attraction of bad-boy-Ranger does not entice - for me, it really isn't a question. Because I'm tiring of the "who will she pick?" thrill, the ending nearly drove me CRAZY! If, however, you find it to be a climatic sexual tension, your addiction will be pleasantly fed.

I started reading this and realized that I had read it before and really liked it. Just wanting to get it on my "read" list.

Ok, I lied. I hadn't read this but now I have. I listened to this on audio and the narrator does a fantastic job with the very colorful characters. The main character, Stephanie Plum, and all the other characters are a hoot. This is the kind of book where you are always smiling or laughing and to top it off, it's steamy. It's not going to win any literary awards but that's OK.

I'll be honest, I read all the Stephanie Plum books up to about 16, and I loved the first few. Janet Evanovich has a style of story-telling that frequently has me laughing out loud. But by this point in the series I found myself wondering why Stephanie never gets any better at bounty hunting, and is she ever going to grow up when it comes to the men in her life? Also, the things that were hilarous at first have been well worn and are long past funny. If Ms. Evanovich wants to keep the Plum series alive, she needs to find new things to make us laugh.

The main plot was boring and slow, the subplots didn't add any excitement, and the characters are too comical (without actually being funny) for my taste.

I loved it. The Morelli-Stephanie-Ranger storyline works for me when in most cases the three way love/lust affair gets boring.