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Loading... Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel (edition 2011)by Janet Evanovich
Work InformationExplosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
   Books Read in 2020 (2,476) No current Talk conversations about this book.  zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |  I think it may be time for the author to give up on Stephanie Plum. (  ) Fish_Witch | Jul 4, 2023 | Anything that funny that makes me laugh out loud has to get five stars. no intellectual brain cells needed, but it is a mood liftger (  ) Asauer72 | Jul 3, 2023 | Horrible. Just horrible. I have read every one in this series and some were great and some were just so/so, but this one was just awful. (  ) JBKPate | Apr 10, 2023 | Sometimes I love Lula to pieces. Other times she makes me want to pull my hair out in clumps. I won't say which this time. :p ( ) CarinMB | Oct 19, 2022 |
At this stage of her prolific career, now up to 18 Stephanie Plum novels, Evanovich’s work is more about tweaking than writing. She’s got the basic plot down pat. Now it’s a matter in each book of thickening or thinning the comic layers on Plum, the New Jersey bounty hunter. In the new book — it’s all about the mess resulting when Plum encounters a guy with a deep secret who gets murdered — Stephanie seems hornier than usual, even more conflicted between Morelli and Ranger, a touch less careful with guns, and freer with her enjoyably smartass mouth.  Janet Evanovich presents a new novel featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.Stephanie's seatmate on Flight 127 from Hawaii never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he's dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying. Only one other person has seen the missing photograph--Stephanie Plum. Belongs to SeriesStephanie Plum (18) Is contained inDistinctions
Stephanie Plum finds herself in trouble when her seatmate on her Hawaii to Newark flight winds up dead and a motley collection of thugs, as well as the FBI, search for a photo the man was reportedly carrying--a photo that only Stephanie has seen. No library descriptions found. |
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Stephanie still can't think (or fight) her way out of a paper bag. Why is she still loose on the streets of New Jersey pretending to be a bounty hunter? Why has nobody put a permanent fix on her window to keep killers and assorted others from breaking in to her apartment? Everyone seems to have a gun. Is there some rule in New Jersey that says its OK to carry around a gun and brandish it (even discharge it) without consequence? I guess I'll stay out of Jersey.
The biggest disappointment is the end. After we spend a couple of hundred pages chasing after the usual assortment of oddballs and wondering why everyone is after the photograph, Evanovich throws in some brand new characters and information and resolves the situation in just a chapter or two. Not fair.
On the other hand, I did read all the way to the end and enjoyed some of the journey. (