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Belly Laughs
“The Stephanie Plum Novels are always amusing but Fearless Fourteen had me laughing out loud. Just a wonderful read.”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-12-15. -
An ok read
“I do agree Evanovichs' earlier books were great and as the series goes on the storyline quality goes down. Sometimes these books are too sily. I have read all the books except two of them 6 and 11 because they were boring. Ranger was barely in the book and shockingly Stephanies' car and apartment never got blown up. When is Stephanie going to stop being childish and grow up? When is she going to get at least engaged to Joe? Its obvious her and ranger arent going to be in any type of committed relationship. Stephanies bounty hunting skills still suck, her relationship with Joe never goes anywhere, Ranger is just this mysterious person...Well maybe number 16 will be good whenever thats coming out, maybe in 2010. ”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-12-02. -
1 of 1 members found this review helpful.
Where is the REAL Janet?
“I have read all the Stephanie Plum books over and over again....from 1-11. They are like old friends.
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-11-23.
When 12 came out, I was very disappointed, but thought "oh well, one so-so in a great series is no big deal". 13 really left me disenchanted with the series. I was always one that was at the store on the day the books were to come out to snatch up a copy.
One week ago, I bought the paperback version of the book that came out 16 months previously. After #12 and #13, I lost faith.
And here is #14. One improvement over #13 is at least glaring mistakes aren't present (i.e. Stephanie's mom with a different name, logistics of the houses, etc. I TOLD you I read them over and over).
Let's see what I have learned from Fearless Fourteen:
Joe is now stupid, and Stephanie thinks of all these angles that never occured to Joe, the police detective. However, those deductive skills do not carry over to the bounty hunter job.
Rex basically gets checked for two minutes every three days and is handed "a grape and a piece of cheese". No water. No other food. Any other hamster would be dead, but not Rex the wonder hamster
Ranger is a puppet with Stephanie holding the strings, and his IQ is about the same as a grapefruit. Also, it is stated that Stephanie and Ranger have been intimate at least two or three times. As far as I know, they only "did it" once, in #8.
Apparently, people breaking into your house/digging up your lawn/being dead in your basement really doesn't affect someone's life to any extent. Not sure about any of you, but it would me.
If you have blue skin, and you go to ex-wives and sisters of dead people, they will open up and tell you everything you want to know.
Lula has lost all interest in "popping a cap" and is in a very poorly written side story about forcing a marriage to Tank, who really isn't involved other than maybe a few sentences.
Mom/Dad/Valerie/Albert/the girls/Vinnie/Connie must have all taken a trip to the Bahamas, because they surely have very little time, or none at all in this book.
Someone can run a group home in his own house for misfits and not bat an eye.
We can expect Madonna and Cher to come to our cities and become newscasters. They will have no other commitments other than one concert in our home towns, and then they will have weeks to get involved in a crime in a city away from home.
I will not be reading #15. I am not sure Janet Evanovich is writing these by herself. I would swear #14 was ghost written. I fear JE is now in it only for the money, and has lost any interest in quality writing, or is bored with Stephanie, et. al. ” -
1 of 1 members found this review helpful.
I cringe for Janet Evanovich. Fearless Fourteen is just that bad
“I've been a huge fan of the Stephanie Plum series and I've read all 15 books in order. The first 4 are absolutely hilarious. While books 5 through 13 aren't quite as funny, they're fun and entertaining nonetheless.
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-10-27.
Fearless Fourteen marks the turning point where a once great series goes horribly wrong. Simply put, Fearless Fourteen is flat, boring, and not at all entertaining. Since I liked the first 13 Stephanie Plum books, I initially wrote off the slip with book 14 as an anomaly. But after reading Finger Lickin' Fifteen (which reads like a random compilation of lines and plot devices lifted directly from the earlier books), I'm realizing Fearless Fourteen was not an anomaly and that the series has just gone BAD. I really wish I'd stopped at 13.
I fully realize that Janet Evanovich's books aren't meant to be great literature. In fact, the reason I look forward to reading her books is that she typically does silly and fluffy so incredibly well. But Fearless Fourteen and Finger Lickin' Fifteen are so boring and repetitive, I have to wonder if Janet Evanovich even wrote them herself. Way to ruin a franchise. ” -
FEARLESS FOURTEEN
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An amazon user wrote this on 2009-10-23.
I truly enjoy the numbered series. I'm sorry that I didn't start reading them in numbered order.
Easy reading but certainly keep me waiting for the next chapter.
bwu”
