I love Janet Evanovich Books

I blew right through this one so I'll keep things brief...

Highlights include:
1. Ranger is in the wind
2. Ranger, no longer disguised as Batman, makes a play for Stephanie, yum
3. Stephanie beats a midget/little person
4. Morelli delivers the most curt, but steamy line yet that will send heat straight to your doodah. Raunchy yes, but true none the less.

I had a four month hiatus from Goodreads so I'm backtracking now to try and catch-up. I just started book 16 of this series and it has stayed fun clear through.

Stephanie is looking for her uncle, but crazy Benito (from book 1) is looking for her and leaving some pretty psycho notes behind. She's also got Randy Briggs, a skip, living with her. As usual, life is crazy.

I like Stephanie, but I love Lula. Stephanie is fun, but Lula is a riot. I have to say, having Benito stalk Stephanie was pretty creepy, but also slightly hilarious at times. At this point I have no remembrance about what happened to Uncle Fred but I'm sure Stephanie figured things out.

Once again I've finished an another Janet Evanovich book. This time it's High Five. In High Five bail jumping in Trenton is down to a small rate. Stephanie's only open case is a small bond, for a small violation, committed by a small person who raises Stephanie's frustration level in big ways. So, short of money and long on bills, Stephanie comes up with a plan. Signing on as an intern with Super Bounty Hunter Ranger, Stephanie ventures into Ranger's mostly morally correct and "semi" legal operations.

None of this makes vice cop Joe Morelli a happy man. The cop in him can't help but wonder as to the source of Stephanie's expensive new car. And the rest of him, the man who's been friend and lover to Stephanie, can't help but wonder if there's more to the partnership than meets the eye.

The internship is downgraded to second priority when Uncle Fred goes missing. Even though Grandma Mazur is sure he was abducted by aliens, Stephanie sets out to look for Fred. He's a perfectly average senior citizen, and he's disappeared without a trace while running errands. He's left his ten year old Pontiac station wagon locked up nice and neat in the Grand Union parking lot, the cleaning is carefully arranged in the back seat, and his wife is at home, waiting for him to return with the bread and the milk and the olive loaf balogna. Locked in the top drawer of his desk are photos of a body, dismembered and stuffed into a garbage bag.

With the help of Stephenie, Ranger, the dwarf and of course Grandma Mazur, this book Is the best I've read out of the series yet! Each chapter gives you a reason to put a smile on your face.

3.5 stars?

So.
I did not like this sequel at all.
I enjoyed it, binged it, laughed with it, but did not like it.

Because... A love triangle?
Really, Janet?
I found it cringy and most honestly hope you did not let Stephanie choose the other guy in that last, cliff hanging scene.

I LOVE Grandma Mazur!!!!! And, Lula continues to be a hysterical part-time side kick! Still enjoying the hell out of these books. Onto "Hot Six."

Steph confusion, destroyed vehicles, lost clients, it's all in a days work for her.

The books have sustained the fun and characters through 5 books here and that's pretty good. I have given all these books 3 stars and as I said probably wouldn't have come across them on my own, but found them "largely" fun. They have some draw backs...but they're very readable.

Oops...typos galore.

The books are amusing and will give a lot of laughs. However they do become repetitive and frankly after a while I began to wonder, why doesn't Steph get better at this???? Why can't she make up her mind about a guy?

How does she stay alive as inept as she is at being a bounty hunter????

Oh well, played for laughs, enjoy.

Mystery. Stephanie Plum. This time her uncle's disappeared, the boxer that tried to kill her in the first book is out of jail, and she's got a midget and some guy named Bunchy on her case. Lots of Morelli and Ranger in this one, including a MYSTERY SEX ENDING. I'm still on Team Morelli, but Ranger's moving up in the polls thanks to the flirting and the trying to keep Stephanie in cars. Despite a rocky start ("OMG, Stephanie, get a better lock, move, change your name, something!"), Bunchy and the midget really grew on me, which is part of why I like these books so much. Evanovich's supporting characters are mostly there to move the plot along, but they're also...I wanna say catchy. They keep your attention. They're interesting. So I am really enjoying these books, but dear god in heaven, Stephanie, if there's a convinced psycho rapist after you, tell someone, like the police. I don't care if you're a big, bad-ass bounty hunter (because you are not), but you can't take care of him (or yourself) on your own. On the other hand, I know by now that nothing too terrible is ever going to happen to Stephanie, so her poor judgment only irritates me if I think about it, and since she doesn't spend much time considering how much danger she's in, I can usually overlook it and concentrate on all the humor and hot men instead.

This is a humor/cozy mystery/chick-lit, and this is the 18th book in the Stephanie Plum series. I have listen to this whole series on audiobooks, and the narrator of the audiobooks does a great job on this book. All the books in this series will make you laugh so much, and I will say the way to read these books is by audiobooks. All the characters are so fun and developed. I love this series so much. This book was not my favorite of the series, but I loved the Grandmother so much in this book. Stephanie Plum always gets into big messes, and she will make you laugh so much. (*)

Evanovich pens another delightful romp with Stephanie Plum through Trenton, New Jersey with "High Five." Uncle Fred has gone missing and it's slow at the bond agency so Stephanie decides to help out and look for her uncle. Unfortunately, all she gets is trouble.

Stephanie meets with Aunt Mabel and learns Fred was in a dispute with the garbage company. She discovers Fred was cheap, a cheater, and had photos of a dead person. She reports them to the police. Soon she's being followed by a bookie named "Bunchy" who wants to find Fred, too. When she finally brings in a bail jumper named "Briggs," she's forced to take him into her house when his is wrecked.

Lula comes back to help Stephanie's investigations and Grandma Mazur tucks her gun into her handbag for an assist as well. Ranger offers Stephanie work to get by and both discover an attraction. Can Stephanie find out what happened to Uncle Fred before more people die at the garbage company?

Evanovich's writing is crisp, witty, and easy to read. The narrative will make you smile and then have you anxious about what's going to happen next.

The supporting cast consists of endearing characters that will have you cheering for them. Stephanie is a very likeable heroine, admirable to a fault, still struggling to find her way, but it's reassuring to know she's on the right path.

"High Five" is another excellent story and a "must read" in the Stephanie Plum series. It's full of smiles, laughs, and nonstop action. I highly recommend this book.

Stephanie Plum, Bounty Hunter, is back.

Her Uncle Fred is missing and she is asked by her family to help locate him. Apparently he went out to Grand Union and the dry cleaners and was going to stop at the garbage company with a cancelled check because there was a mix up and he never came home.

Stephanie's latest FTA is Randy Briggs, a “little person”. While Stephanie was attempting to apprehend Briggs, she destroyed his door, his apartment got ransacked and Briggs tumbled down the stairs. Briggs started making threats of a lawsuit and now Briggs has set up shop in Stephanie’s living room until his apartment is fixed up.

As Stephanie attempts to locate her Uncle Fred, she locates his station wagon parked at the Grand Union with his laundry neatly laid out in the back seat and the car is locked. Stephanie speaks to Uncle Fred’s wife who knows nothing other than Fred when out for groceries and to run errands. Stephanie realizes that Fred was onto something when she finds pictures in Fred’s desk of a dead, cut up female in a garbage bag. To make matters worse, a “bookie” by the name of Bunchy is following Stephanie around in the hopes that she will lead him to Fred.

Stephanie, low on cash as usual, signs on with Ranger to do some jobs for him for extra money. They include driving a Sheik to and from the airport. Watching a building to make sure the previous occupant doesn’t return and helping Ranger to various other little jobs.

Stephanie is busy blowing up and destroying cars as usual.

Stephanie is also being harassed by Benito Ramirez, recently released from prison, who wants to make Stephanie pay for putting him there and says he will show her what a real man is and he wants her to meet God.

Things get spicy with Morelli and Stephanie goes to his cousin’s wedding as his date. The Ranger/Stephanie temperature is rising as well and there is more playful flirting between them.

As always, I laughed my way through this book. I would definitely give it 5 stars (her wit and sarcasm alone warrant it).

I was just about to go out and buy this and Seven Up when I spotted a Bookcrossing copy on a shelf of books waiting to be released. I wasn't sure if I should be glad I'd no longer any need to spend the money or annoyed that I had needlessly stopped at the end of book 4 the other week.

Started this one on Sunday morning and bang! straight back up to speed with Stephanie and the gang. I like the way that the backstory is filled in as and when needed in a quick sentence or two when other authors might spend ages giving the poor people who haven't read the earlier books all the information they need. Scariest part of this one - the return of Benito. Not nice at all. Funniest part - don't ask me to choose. Most anticipated part - Ranger finally making a move: I'd read umpteen posts in various places about who would Stephanie end up with, but this is the first time she and the man of mystery seriously become a possibility. Now I know why they're on about it, especially given the ending of this one. However
a) I had Hot Six ready and waiting and
b) I'm boringly able to avoid swooning over fictional characters
so I wasn't left hanging for long.