- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Headline Review (17 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755337611
- ISBN-13: 978-0755337613
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 973,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`A laugh-a-minute... A background of dastardly crime with a ditzy heroine and two - yes, TWO - of the hottest heroes ever created'
--Lesley Eames, WOMAN'S WEEKLY
--Lesley Eames, WOMAN'S WEEKLY
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`A laugh a minute against a background of dastardly crime with a ditzy heroine and two - yes TWO - of the hottest heroes ever created.'
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Should have been called FOURTEEN GREEN as this was recycled from earlier books,
By Juliette (Richmond) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum 14) (Hardcover)
The Plum series is a victim of its own success and I know it must be hard for an author to come up with something new whilst satisfying her readers with the zany situations and clever dialogue that have made Stephanie Plum so successful. That's why smart authors stop when they are on top, but Janet Evanovich has her whole family employed by Evanovich Inc, so I guess she has to keep churning out these books even if they aren't very good any more.
The editing in the latest Plum books is pitiful, and, while recycling might be good for the planet, with novels it should be restricted to the paper and not the plot and dialogue. Janet Evanovich is contracted through to Book No 16, so I hope 15 and 16 will be a substantial improvement on 14. Fearless Fourteen is not a terrible book, but it is definitely no better than okay. There are some laughs, but it relies too much on old lines and situations which we've heard again and again. Everyone has become silly caricatures. This book has a plot with totally ridiculous situations, but I'm used to that with the Plum series. I suspend belief and just go with the flow, enjoying Stephanie et al using clever devices and sheer luck to triumph, but it is very contrived this time. In 14 there's a bank robbery, missing millions, kidnapping, search for the millions by the ex-con and others, but the ending was very poor and I felt cheated. It was wrapped up in such a stupid way that if I hadn't borrowed the book from the library, I would have thrown it into the rubbish bin on the train in total disgust. Stephanie is becoming more self centred, rude and much more difficult to like and Morellie was a total wuss which was so disappoiting. Instead of reading Fearless Fourteen, try the Mojo Sheepshank books by Linda Lael Miller - Deadly Gamble and Deadly Deceptions. Both excellent books.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
same old, same old,
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum 14) (Hardcover)
If you like Janet Evanovich as a writer and enjoy the Stephanie Plum stories then you're not going to go far wrong here. The trouble comes if you're looking for the storyline to develop or anything to happen that hasn't already happened.
Yes, they are amusing and the characters are still well written, but there is no forward impetus in these books. In the fourteen adventures Stephanie has had to date she has made no real progress as a character and is increasingly becoming a cariacature, which is a shame, because Evanovich is capable of much better than this. This is a by rote adventure and yes I do still have affection for these characters, and yes it still makes me chuckle, but that's all. I feel sad about this because I used to wait for the next book to be released with something approaching religious mania and now I am happy to wait and pick it up at the library or wait until it comes out in paperback.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Neither comic nor thriller...,
By bloodsimple (nottingham, uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum 14) (Paperback)
I thought I'd give this book a try. Hmmm. It's always a bad sign when you read a `comic' book without laughing once. It's even worse when you can see where it was intended to be funny, and just wasn't. I believe the point of the books is to combine wit with a pacy storyline. Sadly, no sign of one of those, either. The whole thing stutters forward, in the same way that a drunk will often move forwards for a while. It has no direction, or drama, or real purpose.
It seems to be to be neither one thing nor the other. I see from other reviews that previous Stephanie Plum books were better. Maybe so, but that's a bit like being the smartest bloke in Westlife, isn't it? It's an achievement, but not much of one. Sadly, I won't be trying another Evanovich. If you want a genuinely funny thriller, try Carl Hiaasen.
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