- 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: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 102,636 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.
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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?
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?
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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.
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.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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.
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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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Very disappointing
All the ingredients are there (characters, setting) but no real storyline to animate them. Evanovich has without doubt let her fans down, if she has no further interest in the Plum... Read more
Published 25 days ago by Mark32
A good fun read
Once again Janet Evanovich has written a good easy reading book, the characters and situations although a little far fetched are enjoyable and fun, a good escapism novel. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Loubeelou
Excellent, Stephanie does it again
Stephanie and her pals do it again, have me in stitches that is. If you have not heard/read the Stephanie Plum Novels then start now, from the latax wearing ex street walker to the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by kit
Time for Stephanie Plumb to be put out of her misery
After "buying" and reading 15 of her previous novels, this one is ridiculous, stupid story, no humour, badly written. Janet Evanovich now appears bereft of a good story. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Brian10
Hot Stuff
As always Stephanie Plum (well okay Janet Evanovich) does not disappoint in this hot instalment. I smiled the whole way through as even the 'extra' characters jump fully formed... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Gail Williams
Can't get Enough Of Them
The entire series have been super reading for those who simply want to enjoy a book. Pick it up and you'll not put it down.
Published 8 months ago by Freddy The Frog
Getting a little stale
I am a huge Stephanie Plum fan so was looking forward to reading this but although it kept me amused enough to pass a flight pleasantly, I felt that the relationships between the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Bookworm
As good as the others
This was a gift for a friend, and I warned her that other reviews had said that it was a bit below par. Not at all, was the response. Laugh out loud funny.
Published 10 months ago by J. Elmes
Totally discussed
Please be advised that I never received this item and you were made aware of this on 10th June 2011
Published 11 months ago by Annette
Sizzling Sixteen - same old stuff.
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... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Anne
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