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Sizzling Sixteen [Hardcover]

Janet Evanovich
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)

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Book Description

22 Jun 2010
Trenton, New Jersey. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a 'lucky' bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn't specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck...

Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, owes a gambling debt to mobster Bobby Sunflower. It's up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs. Saving the business means Stephanie can keep being a bounty hunter. In Trenton, this involves hunting down a man wanted for polygamy, a Turnpike toilet paper bandit, and a drug dealer with a pet alligator named Mr Jingles.

The job comes with perks in the guise of Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, and the dark and dangerous security expert, Ranger. With any luck at all, Uncle Pip's lucky bottle will have Stephanie getting lucky - the only question is...with whom?


Product details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review (22 Jun 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0755352793
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755352791
  • Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 3 x 23.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 210,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Blockbuster author Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels are:

"LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY."
"--St. Louis Post Dispatch"

"HOT AND SASSY."
"--The Boston Herald"

"A PLUM PICK."
"--People"

"IRRESISTIBLE."
"--Houston Chronicle"

"BRILLIANTLY EVOCATIVE."
"--Denver Post"

"OUTRAGEOUS."
"--Publishers Weekly"

"STUNNING."
"--Booklist"

"OFF BEAT AND HILARIOUS."
"--Romantic Times BOOKreviews"

"HIGHLY ENJOYABLE...WHO CAN RESIST?"
"--Chicago Tribune"

" A GOOD TIME."
--"New York"" Daily News"

"AS ENTERTAINING AS EVER."

--"Entertainment Weekly" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

No. 1 bestselling author JANET EVANOVICH is the recipient of the Crime Writers` Association`s John Creasey Memorial, Last Laugh and Silver Gagger awards, as well as the Left Coast Crime`s Lefty award, and is the two-time recipient of the Independent Mystery Booksellers` Association`s Dilys award.

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing. 8 Aug 2010
By Nib
Format:Hardcover
I'm very late to the Stephanie Plum party having only found the series about two months ago. Since then I've read all the books in the series. I'm giving this book a three star review but I think that if I'd been reading the books over the years like most other fans then I'd be giving it a one star. If I'd had to wait a year to read sixteen I would have been so annoyed with it. The whole thing is a disappointment, especially when contrasted with the delights of the first books in the series. Nothing happens, it's not nearly as funny or gripping as it could have been. It's all filler and there's nothing of substance. It feels like an exercise in treading water.

The series started out so wonderfully - fresh, funny and original. While there are (fleeting) moments of funny in Sixteen, there's nothing that's either fresh or original. In fact it's all very tired and as samey as the eight before it. It's also lost the grit and sexiness of the earlier books and feels much shorter too.

I don't want, nor expect to see Stephanie become super bounty hunter but I would expect that after all this time she'd have learned something. I feel that Janet Evanovich is doing a disservice to her characters by not allowing Stephanie to progress or grow as a person or a professional. Lulu has become an annoying, ridiculous caricature, Ranger is creepy and God knows why Morelli puts up with Stephanie. It's sad to see the creator of these wonderful characters now letting them down so badly.

Janet Evanovich is a talented and wonderful writer and it's well within her capabilities to re-invigorate the series and restore it to it's earlier glory. I'll wait in hope for Seventeen.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Poor 4 Nov 2010
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
It seems as if this book was written by Evanovich in her sleep. There is very little to say here if you have read the previous fifteen instalments of the Plum saga. What started off as fresh, funny and innovative in the first few books has now become a dull, repetitive grind of sameness.

What irks me most about this series is that nothing ever gets resolved. Stephanie never moves on, never makes any decisions or does anything much of anything any more. At least in the earlier books there were some surprises, some hooks that would keep you guessing until the next book came out, but now all the plot lines and characters are neatly finished and parcelled up with everyone back in the same position they were in at the start of the novel, waiting to do it all over again the next time.

Sometimes the writing is still quite sharp, sometimes the episodes are amusing, but the repetition grinds down even those elements until it all becomes so wearily predictable.

In this book Vinnie, Stephanies boss and cousin, is kidnapped by mobsters when he cannot pay off his gambling debts. With the bail bonds office under threat of bankruptcy, Lula, Connie and Stephanie step up to the plate to rescue Vinnie.

If this is your first experience of Evanovich, you may well enjoy it, but if you are a faithful follower you will be disappointed.

If you want to see Evanovich at her best read the first four books in this series. You won't regret it.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars More of the same 3 Aug 2010
Format:Hardcover
I like the Plum novels, but Sephanie needs to move on. I want more emotional dilemma between Joe and Ranger. Joe is becoming one-dimensional, the old reliable. Even Ranger has lost his dangerous feel. We need something unexpected on the love front Ms Evanovich (should you read this!)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Sizzling Sixteen - same old stuff. 20 Jun 2011
By Anne
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I think this series of novels should be brought to a conclusion. The first 8, even 10, were incredibly funny; Grandma Mazur was a hoot, and Stephanie's misfortune with vehicles was hilarious. Funny enough that I was brought to tears of laughter. Living in the US for many years, and on the East Coast, I could easily picture, and hear in my mind's eye, the Jersey characters, very accurate.

The last few novels are the same old stuff, in effect a re-hash. Ms Evanovich could have written them from past manuscripts with minor changes. The only reason 'fans' are still buying this series is to find out who Stephanie chooses - Ranger or Morelli. Ms Evanovich is taking advantage of her devotees by stringing out the final resolution.

The novels are shorter in length, and if anything the continuing characters have less involvement. There is no evolvement of the regular cast, they are all, without exception, just like Rex - treading the wheel going nowhere.

If I hear again about Lula's diets, too tight spandex tops and skirts, Cluck-in-a-Bucket fried chicken and doughnuts it will be too soon!

Enough already Ms Evanovich, write one last Stephanie Plum novel tying up all loose ends, and move on to a new series.
Your talents could be put to better use.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Hysterical. as Ever 16 July 2010
By Wendy Jones TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
I love the Stephanie Plum books and this one is as good as all the others. I laughed from start to finish. Yes, I agree with the other reviewers that at times it seems a little repetative, but this is what I want and expect from Stephanie Plum. As always Stephanie finds herself in bucketloads of trouble, with Ranger and Morelli always appearing to get her out from this. Lula, eats as many donuts as always, but I liked the way Connie played a bigger part in this book. The scene with the hobbits was the funniest I have ever read and I would advise reading the book just for this if nothing else. I am really looking forward to number 17, may it arrive soon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just love this series
I just love this series and you never know what Stephanie Plum and her friends will do next!! Keep them coming.
Published 9 days ago by J. Wymer
2.0 out of 5 stars The standard is going down ............
I love these characters and have enjoyed the series very much. They are, perhaps, becoming increasingly formulaeic and are increasingly disappointing. Read more
Published 18 days ago by JK
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!!!
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich simply has to be the greatest work of fiction ever written!! Just can't get enough!!!!
Published 29 days ago by andyvibs
5.0 out of 5 stars Sizzling Sixteen
Can't wait for the next Stephanie Plum! Since One for the Money I have been getting the next in line.
Published 2 months ago by Valerie England
4.0 out of 5 stars Another great read!!
Made me laugh all the way through with her antics!! I love Stephanie Plum and Grandma Mazur!! The writer makes it so easy to imagine the characters.
Published 2 months ago by hjr
5.0 out of 5 stars Sizzling 16
Another brilliant book from Janet evanovich. These books really enable you to laugh out loud and wish you had the courage to be like Stephanie plum! Read more
Published 3 months ago by Pauline Rockett
2.0 out of 5 stars Not so Sizzling anymore
I have read all the books up to this one over the years and in the beginning I adored them. I liked the tension of will she won't she Morelli or Ranger? Read more
Published 3 months ago by Joo (in UK)
4.0 out of 5 stars plenty of laughs
Sizzling Sixteen is the sixteenth full length novel in the Stephanie Plum series by popular American author, Janet Evanovich. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Cloggie Downunder
5.0 out of 5 stars Stephanie Plum
I enjoyed this book as much as the previous 15, I laughed out loud in many places . A really silly, funny, compulsive story.
Published 4 months ago by john morrissy
4.0 out of 5 stars Sizzling sixteen?
I tend to enjoy theses books but every now and again there seem to be similarities between them. The humour is great.
Published 4 months ago by RJ
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