Grandma Mazur never fails to delight.
Who knew that bob the dog would make a great weapon of mass (yard) destruction!
Weddings and lesbian and small female horses, oh my!
This was another fun read.

n  n    Seven Upn  n
n  n    Stephanie Plum, Book 7n  n

n  I Picked Up This Book Because:n Continue the series.

n  The Characters:n

Stephanie Plum:
Joe Marelli:
Ranger, Lula, Grandma Mazur

n  The Story:n

Another day in the life for our bumbling bounty hunter. Stephanie is called to capture Eddie DeChooch a semi retired criminal and of course things are never what they seem on the surface. We follow Stephanie though the random turns that unfold and yet another car is destroyed.

I’m glad to see that the amount of people who break into her apartment is finally starting to bother her.

These books are not terrible original from one to the other but I still love them. Stephanie and her antics haven’t failed to entertain me yet.

n  The Random Thoughts:n

I know this wasn’t an issue or talked about issue when this book was written but the casual racism/sexism/homophobia in this series bothers me. Not enough to make me stop reading because I do like the characters for the most part but enough that I feel a jolt when it happens.

Though I love Lorelei King I’m not in love with her as the voice of Stephanie. I much preferred the hard edged voice of the first narrator I listened to.

n  The Score Card:n



3.75 Stars

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 with Stephanie’s father trying not to choke on his
food every time Grandma Mazur makes some outrageous statement or describes which funeral director does a better job at making up
their clients and why. “ ‘I saw a television show the other week
about a woman like that,’ Grandma said. ‘This woman was real sexy, and it turned out that one of the men she was flirting with was an alien
from outer space. And the alien took the woman up to his spaceship and did all kinds of things to her.’

“My father hunkered lower over his plateful of food and mumbled something indiscernible except for the words . . . Crazy old bat.
“ ‘What about Loretta [recent murder victim found in Eddie’s garage:] and Eddie DeChooch?’ I asked. ‘Do you suppose they were seeing each
other?’ “ ‘Not that I know of,’ Grandma said. ‘From what I know Loretta liked her men hot, and Eddie DeChooch couldn’t get it up. I went with
him a couple of times, and that thing of his was dead as a doorknob. No matter what I did I couldn’t get a thing to happen.’
“My father looked up at Grandma, and a piece of meat fell out of his mouth. “My mother was red-faced at the other end of the table. She sucked in some air and made the sign of the cross. ‘Mother of God,’ she said. “I fiddled with my fork. ‘If I left now I probably wouldn’t get any pineapple upside-down cake, right?’ “ ‘Not for the rest of your life,’ my mother said.

It seems Eddie DeChooch, half-blind and really old, had decided to make a killing by smuggling some cigarettes. Unfortunately, Louie, his contact in Richmond, died of a heart attack, and when contacted, the family lawyer told Eddie to “bring the fart back.” Eddie’s hearing
being substandard, he thought he heard the lawyer say heart. Arrested by the police on the way back from Richmond, Eddie had skipped
bail and so Stephanie was assigned to go get him. Much easier said than done, because the heart has disappeared and the whole family,
mob-connected, is determined to get it back, only no one knows where it is.

Throw in two crazy old ladies, a Grandma Mazur kidnapping (she was thrilled and intended to keep talking about it for weeks), a wedding
dress, another smashed-up Stephanie car, and Ranger giving Stephanie more than goose bumps, and you have another classic Evanovich.

Light but lots of fun.

Time on the job isn't giving Stephanie any respite from the chaos that follows her like mud on a shoe. Funerals become bedlam, people turn up dead, and love triangles continue to plague her. Just when you think things can't get any worse, you have to negotiate a ransom deal for your Grandmother. Janet Evanovich keeps the tension high and the laughs coming in this seventh installment of the Stephanie Plum series.

Éste libro corresponde a una serie de libros donde la protagonista llamada Stephanie Plum se enfrenta a varias situaciones como cazarrecompensas.

La vida de Stephanie es muy peculiar. Tiene que entregar a la corte a un hombre mayor llamado Eddie DeChooch, el cual fue novio de su abuela y a quien le encuentran en la casa una mujer muerta.

A la vez la chica tiene que lidiar con su familia, que quieren casarla con su novio. Y para colmo de males, dos de sus amigos de infancia desaparecen sin dejar rastro.

Es una historia que tiene de todo un poco: humor, misterio y romance. A mí en lo personal me gustó la historia. No tiene muchos giros argumentales pero es perfecto para pasar el rato y reírse un poco.

If you've read the other six books in this series you have no reason to stop before you read this one. Many of the same characters appear in Seven UP. How is Eddie DeChooch to so hard to catch??? He's old, half blind, and crazy as hell. Well our heroine Stephanie Plum probably thinks it's like catching a greased up pig. There story is pretty interesting with more than your average twists and turns. Our best friend Bob the dog is at it again after eating some leftover chinese food that Steph and Morelli left out. Grandma Mazur is headed to Stiva's again to check out the latest funeral, will she or won't she take a peek in the closed casket...read and find out. These books are so entertaining I still wonder to myself why I never started this series sooner. I will continue reading this series and luckily there is at least 18 or 19 of these bay boys, ha ha.

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. You know who will like this book? The same public who likes "Deal or no Deal". Picking random suitcases with hot but fake looking women? America must do better!

This is the point where I say goodbye to the characters I’ve come to love: Grandma Mazur, Lula, Mooner and Dougie, Bob the dog, and, last but not least, Joe Morelli, who certainly deserved better.

I won't be continuing with the series. I have a problem with cheating, and while still trying to decide which definition applies to Stephanie Plum - “whore”, as, while being Morelli's girlfriend, she made a deal with Ranger to sleep with him if he helps her on a case (Ch. 8: "If we do it now does it count as a credit toward capturing DeChooch?" "We aren't doing it now." "Why not?") or “slut”, in her own words (Ch.13: ”Not only was I a slut lusting after two men,”…) – the fact remains she is a cheater. I no longer find her amusing, and I no longer find anything likable about Ranger.

Sooo not nice to leave us wanting Ranger! Teeheeeheee :)

I really liked this one, the only thing that bothered me was the romances. But I found that this book made me fall in love with the characters even more.

All Stephanie had to do was bring in Eddie DeChooch. He is an old man who is basically blind, hard of hearing, and is so depressed he doesn't want to leave his house....so how hard can that task be right? Wrong! As always, Stephanie underestimates her catch and is left looking like an amateur bounty hunter. Soon she learns that her Grandma has a connection to Eddie and it's one that Stephanie wishes she would never have heard about. Too much information about sums it up. To top all that off DeChooch is now after Stephanie's friends and her, but why? Why would an elderly man want to see them all dead? What is it that he keeps asking for from them and why does he think they have whatever "it" is? Soon there are kidnappings, gun fights, murder, and all kinds of mayhem! Mixed in with all that work stuff, Stephanie has personal problems too, like her sister showing up on her parents' doorstep with her two kids with shocking news, Ranger giving Stephanie some help in this case....but with consequences, and her pending wedding to Joe Morelli causing way more fights than happy bliss. Will she survive trying to capture DeChooch long enough to even have to worry about those person problems on her plate? What's this old man have to hide?

As always, I just loved this book! I just can't get enough of Stephanie Plum and all her troubles and predicaments she gets into. It seems as though every time things are going in the "green" for her she soon stumbles and goes right back into the "red". It really does remind me of my own life, in the respect of how you think you got things all figured out and then...BAM...a roadblock again. As much has I love Evanovich's writing and her Plum Series, I still find myself waiting for the other shoe to drop, and to run into a book that hits that series wall. You know the one, the one that makes you think, Oh boy...this is the same poop different book and time for the series to end. However, Evanovich keeps on surprising me by making sure this doesn't happen to her readers in this series. This is quite impressive, especially after being on book seven here! That takes quite the talented writer if you ask me. I love the way the action starts in this book on page one and doesn't let up until the last page, last word. Even at the end you are left awaiting the next read to see what will really happen to poor Stephanie next. I love the characters and I wouldn't think they could get much more developed after seven books, but they have and I'm sure they will be even more in the books to come. There is a reason Evanovich is on the bestseller lists all the time, she is GREAT that's why! Great author, fantastic characters, wonderful plot, and amazing book!!!! A MUST READ!!

5/5 Stars!!

The Jersey girl in me can't help but love the Stephanie Plum series. The one flaw? In Seven Up, Stephanie seems to be running in circles a little more than usual which is kind of distracting. Other than that, it was like all the others, a super fast read with a couple of surprises that you don't see coming. I'm going to have to read the next one really soon because I'm dying to know what happened after that last scene with Stephanie and Ranger.