Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 13) by Janet Evanovich Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 13)
Book Review: still the funniest ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This series is the only one that consistently makes me laugh out loud. Okay, the characters are very familiar and predictable, but that's what makes them so funny. I don't want them to change. I want them to stay in the burg living their crazy lives and keeping me entertained for a long, long time to come. I dearly love Bob the dog. He fits right in with all the others. Please, people, don't try to get Janet E. to move Stephanie and friends to other locations or send Ranger off for an extended vacation so that Steph can get more serious with Joe. If she chooses one of them it will ruin the triangle plot and that would be a tragedy. Steph just needs to keep on apprehending felons and dealing with her wacky family and friends and keeping me laughing all the way. Book Review: LOL, another excellent Stephanie Plum novel!
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh, how I adore this series! Lots of laughs, Stephanie still gets herself into trouble in some way. Lots of colourful characters, old and new alike, and Grandma Mazur still knows how to make the reader laugh. Trying to figure out how Steph gets herself into these situations is still a great wonder, even though the reader gets it from A to Z.
Ranger still turns her to mush as much as Morelli, and Morelli still has it in his head that Stephanie should be doing something other than bounty hunting. If only he could accept what is, and stop forcing the issue, I bet he and Stephanie could live happily ever after.
I still like watching the banter between the triangle. While Ranger isn't looking for ties, only fun, Stephanie wouldn't mind it. However, she does have her heart set on settling down, Ranger isn't part of that plan - not by a long shot. I like what they have between them, though. You'd think that Morelli, knowing this, would put his butt in gear and think better about the situation, but I have a feeling it isn't going to happen any time soon.
I soooo can't wait to see what Stephanie gets herself into in Fearless Fourteen.
Book Review: LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN
Summary: 2 Stars
.Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 13)
A ghost-written Plum? Oh my. All of the other Stephanie Plum 'Bounty Hunter' series have been fast, laugh out loud, one day reads. The plots are almost incidental to the fun banter, sexual tension and general silliness. A real guilty pleasure. But in this one the banter has been replaced with stilted dialogue that just seems totally out of character and the sexual tension has been replaced by crude, romance novel drivel. In any series part of the fun is getting to know the characters and anticipating their reactions to a situation. It makes the reading fast and the laughs louder. On this one, rather than the reading flowing along, I kept getting thrown off by all of the character/dialogue inconsistencies. Burg-ers of the past said 'fudge', 'frick, 'finkin' or anything else but in this one even Grandma Mazur is throwing 'f-bombs'. Morelli's playing happy housewife, Ranger's insecure about his looks and downright talkative, Lula's saying things like 'I'm considering the consequences', Tank's carrying on conversations and Stephanie's insecurities, Jersey-girl attitude and good girl dilemmas are almost totally missing. These are the same characters in name only. I can understand an author getting bored or stuck and the plot line suffering but when the basic voice of the characters is so drastically different it leads me to believe that it was written by someone else. Too bad, I'd have rather seen the series end
Book Review: Anther good novel in the series
Summary: 4 Stars
Our favorite bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum is back again in Lean Mean Thirteen. Stephanie is asked by her friend, Ranger to plant bugs on her ex-husband Dickie Orr. Stephanie does not like Dickie too well, so when she, LuLu and Connie give him a visit, it is no surprise that Stephanie and Dickie end up fighting on the floor. Stephanie can't help herself especially after she learns that Dickie is back in bed with her archenemy Joyce Barnhardt. The following day Stephanie learns that Dickie has gone missing, presumably dead, and their number one suspect is Stephanie. Forced into this situation by Ranger, she joins up with him to try and find out what happened to Dickie and how it ties to his law firm and its cast of suspicious partners. The plot is a little too extravagant, but Janet Evanovich provides some great characters along the way that overall make the story work. As always she fills her pages with scenes that will leave you laughing out loud, including exploding animal specimens and graveyard antics. Plus, she gives us just enough Ranger to have us begging for more or the mysterious and sexy bounty hunter. Fans of the series will not want to miss Lean Mean Thirteen. Valerie Jones mrsvaljones@netzero.net
Book Review: Still one of the best
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with some other reviewers that things are getting a bit repetitive, and I wish something would happen one way or another with the men in Steph's life. But these are minor quibbles with a great series. It's still laugh out loud funny and one of the best mystery series out there. It's hard to find books with genuine wit and a good plotline; the closest to this I've read recently are fantasy, Karen Chance's Cassie Palmer novels. So yeah, this is still five stars for me!