Heaps of fun and laugh-out-loud funny. (I hate the work (is it a word?) LOL). A fab series!

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Obviously I had to return home on Saturday as well. This time I was sans kids as Dad took round two to the next destination for Sunday so it was up to Stephanie Plum to keep me awake. Luckily this was available for download since I had underestimated the length of these in audio format.

This third trip to the ‘Burg finds Stephanie involved in a missing persons case. Everyone’s favorite business owner, Uncle Moe, has gone FTA and is nowhere to be found. No one is interested in helping Stephanie lock up their favorite candy man. I feel the same about my neighborhood candy salesman . . .

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Who doesn’t love puppies and sweets?

Three To Get Deadly also featured a record-high body count, and the return of everyone’s favorite former ho . . . .

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At what point do the wheels start falling off this thing? I’m giving this one 4 Stars again and there’s a good chance I’ll be downloading #4 if it’s available before this weekend’s (thankfully shorter) road trip.

Stephanie Plum, lunatic woman. The world's most inept Apprehension Agent who finds herself in over her head yet again. The girl has a serious talent for attracting trouble. In her world, there is no such thing as a simple take-down. Good thing she has some talented backup.

She's bound and determined that she isn't going to drive that Buick, her elderly neighbours are a feisty, gun-packing lot, and you don't ever mess with Rex if you don't want her to unleash all manner of crazy at you.

Favourite new character: Lula, the bounty hunter wanna-be. She's the lunatic in the red Firebird, and you don't get to call her fatty. Ever. She's dying to bust a cap on someone.

Favourite line: "Loretta, you got a new gun." You have to read the scene to know why that is full-on hilarious.

This was another fun read and I didn't realize how much depth there was to the mystery until it was spelled out for me in small words. It's always appreciated when I can't figure out who the bad guy really is. I'm looking forward to book four, if for no other reason than to see if she can get her hair sorted out.

If you want quite a lot of LOL moments while listening to a mystery audiobook, then this Stephanie Plum series is for you!

3.8 ⭐ This one is my favorite in the series so far because I didn't guess the ending! The plot was fun and the characters are getting more colorful

Wenn mir danach ist, beim Lesen aus vollem Hals lachen zu können, dann greife ich gern zu einem Stephanie Plum-Roman. Allein Grandma Mazur ist jede Lachfalte wert :)

08/10 Punkte - http://sunsys-blog.blogspot.de/2016/0...

Third time's a charm!!!

Except in this case it's a bad-luck charm that ruined the last 24 or so hours of my life.

Oy vey, this was awful. I think I'm done with this series. The first two were enjoyable enough, even if they were ridiculous (and I get that the ridiculousness is intentional), but this one brought any enjoyment I was having to a screeching halt. Or maybe a sudden stall in the middle of the street, you know, like Stephanie's truck did about 17 times, each of which we had to read about it. That's one of the shitty things about this book--the mind-numbing repetition of everything. How many more damn times do I need to read about this bitch taking a shower, her car breaking down, and her inhaling like 8 donuts at a time? The answer is none. None more times. Even when she's supposedly doing her bounty hunter job, it's the same damn thing over and over, and lord, Stephanie could teach a class on "How To Never Learn Your Motherfucking Lesson." Except she'd be a terrible teacher, since she is literally terrible at everything.

I don't know anything about being a bounty hunter, but I know this woman is the literal worst at it. Everyone keeps telling her to go get a job at the button factory, and I'm like, that's the only smart thing that ever gets said in this book. She's dumb as dirt, too. Like, bitch, why do you still go "golly gee who could it be" every time you think someone's in your apartment or at your door or following you somewhere when EVERY SINGLE TIME IT'S MORELLI??? Like, is this Memento? Can this bitch not form new memories? Jiminy crickets.

The case itself was weird and gross, and I really did NOT like the "twist" we get as to what has been going on with Mo. I thought the author treated it like something...I don't know, salacious and edgy when it was actually horrible, and we're supposed to feel badly for this old prick. No way. In addition, there was a lot of racist and homophobic shit in here, and I don't care that this was published in 1997, that's not the damn Dark Ages. Lula was nothing but gross stereotypes piled one on top of the other, and there was very much a sense of "gay people are sick perverts." I also abhorred how many people in this town not only have no problem with the idea of someone murdering drug dealers, but in fact were cheering for it and literally saying the person doing it deserves a medal or to be elected president. Yes, I know dealers can cause a lot of pain and suffering, and some of them are also murderers. But how are you any better if you're rooting for someone to kill them? Disgusting. Yes, Stephanie expresses shock at the sentiments, but I don't know...it felt to me like the author was speaking through the other characters, and Stephanie was the loser bleeding heart we're supposed to laugh at.

I got through the whole thing, because I'd seen a few people reference the twist they hadn't seen coming, so I was curious. Welp, there's a reason for the adage. My curiosity didn't kill me but it definitely killed some brain cells. This was just utter trash, and I'm not going back to the series. No time for a woman who acts like a total idiot, is entirely useless and thinks it's cute, lets herself get led around by her crotch because of some loser guy who's an overbearing jackass, plus an author who thinks racist caricatures = characterization.

EXCERPT: I cautiously got out of the truck and looked for possible assailants. Finding none, I crossed the lot and swung through the door into the lobby.

Mr Wexler was in the lobby, waiting for the senior citizens minibus to pick him up. 'You hear about Mo Bedemier?' Mr Wexler asked. 'Isn't he a pip? I tell you, the man's got a lot of jewels. It's about time somebody did something about the drug problem.'

'He's suspected of killing a whole bunch of men!'

'Yep. He's on a roll, all right.'

The elevator doors opened, and I got in, but I didn't feel like going to my apartment. I felt like striking out at someone.

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr Wexler. 'Killing is wrong.'

'We kill chickens,' Mr Wexler said. 'We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.'

It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

ABOUT THIS BOOK: Stephanie Plum's fast becoming the most unpopular woman in New Jersey. Even her own mother can't love her for taking on the job of tracking down Uncle Mo, everybody's favourite candy store owner. Cursed with a disastrous new hair colour and an increasing sense that it's time to get a new job, the world's favourite bounty hunter sets off on her latest adventure, with a little 'help' for her new sidekick, hooker turned file clerk Lula, who's just itching to get a felon in the back of her racy red firebird ...

MY THOUGHTS: Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich was just the antidote I needed to another book I was reading that was a particularly depressing read.

It's slapstick comedy, silly and funny and fun. Snort coffee out through your nose silly.

Yes, it's a series, but this and the occasional other I have read all work as stand alone, as there's plenty of background information embedded in the story.

An enjoyable 'filler' read.

SERIE STEPHANIE PLUM n. 3

LETTURA DI GRUPPO E&L

Bello bello bello!!!
Finalmente ci siamo. Questo volume segna la svolta. La storia investigativa con le vicende romantiche sono ben equilibrate. Soprattutto anche qui si ride come non mai!!! Lula la mia preferita. Peccato che si sia vista poco nonna Mazur. La Evanovich qui è più matura e fa maturare i suoi personaggi. Stephanie è meno ragazzina e Morelli non ha solo una cosa in testa. Mi piacciono davvero tanto. Forse di più Morelli..che volete sono gusti *_*
Sei primi libri erano frivoli qui notiamo un salto di qualità nella trama nello spessore dei personaggi.
La nostra Stephanie è sempre una cacciatrice di taglie e questa volta è alle prese con la sparizione di Zio Mo. Un'istituzione a Trentor, dove ha un negozio di caramelle. Che gli sarà successo? Lo scoprirete solo leggendo le folli avventure di questa cacciatrice di taglie fuori dal normale. Ah dimenticavo..vogliamo parlare di Ranger??? il supereroe muahahahahahaha.
Sono davvero contenta di avere iniziato a leggere questa saga. Mi fa davvero dimenticare ogni cosa e sorridere ^_^

Again, another solid addition to the Stephanie Plum series. These books make me laugh and smile all the way through them.

In book number three we get to know Lula better as she teams up with Stephanie. Their antics together are hilarious. I am not so much of a fan of Lula later in the series when I personally think the books focus on her too much--when they could be focusing on um, Joe Morelli or Ranger, hello?

Speaking of Ranger, we also get to know him a little bit better--by 'better' I mean we learn he's tall, dark and handsome...and no one knows where he lives. He also gets invited to dinner at Stephanie's parents house so he must a part of her life now.

I am only giving it three stars because of the end. The end kills me. The book is written in first person, but Stephanie withholds information for the readers (sooo...she's withholding information from herself?) It really doesn't make sense to me and I feel like the pay off doesn't live up to the silliness that is having your first person character withhold information from the reader.

It’s a world I am unfamiliar with—the world of Chic Lit (or, if you are over 18, I refer to as Clit Lit). Even though Janet Evanovich’s books take up at least three shelves at the local Barnes & Noble, I have never noticed. Probably because they are in the Mystery section which I pass through on my way to the Science Fiction wall. I don’t look to either side for fear of turning into a pillar of salt. But—(there is always a but) I am in a strange land under strange circumstances these days and Stephanie Plum has entered my life. It’s a good thing. At the moment I am taking care of my mom who is battling Parkinson’s, dementia and a bunch of other good stuff. When I first came into her house (after an absence of something like 20 years) I saw piles of books all over the place. I knew everything would be alright. Until I checked out the titles. They were all—and I mean all—mysteries. I never read murder mysteries unless written by Carl Hiaasen.
The inevitable day came when I found myself without a new book to read. With so many Evanovich books laying around I though what the hell—how bad can they be? Well campers, as millions of readers will attest: they are clever, fun and addictive. You don’t read the Stephanie Plum series for the plot necessarily, although some are clever. It’s the daffy characters and ‘I Love Lucy’ situations.
I am going to read them all (he says) and will add them to my bookshelf here only for my Boy Scout merit badge. No reviews. After you have read the first one, you know what you are going to get with the rest. So far, I am enjoying the hell out of them. I gotta say Janet—you can pen some hot eroticism when you want. The Stephanie Plum series is an industry unto itself, but don’t let this put you off from giving them a go. Oh yah, and start at the beginning. It’s important.