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Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 14)
Janet Evanovich

St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 320 pages

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Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.

The Crime:  Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars

Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn?t be more proud. He always was the smart one. 

The Cousin:  Joe Morelli

Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Dom?s sister, Loretta, are cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi robs banks, and Loretta is a single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. The all-American family.

The Complications:  Murder, kidnapping, destruction of personal property, and acid reflux

Less than a week after Dom?s release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. He?s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing.

The Catastrophe:  Moonman

Morelli hires Walter ?Mooner? Dunphy, stoner and ?inventor? turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli can?t afford a lot on a cop?s salary, and Mooner will work for potatoes.

The Cupcake:  Stephanie Plum

Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. She?s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and she?s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one.

The Crisis:  A favor for Ranger

Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanie?s evening activities.

The Conclusion:  Only the fearless should read Fourteen.

Thrills, chills, and incontinence may result.

 

 




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Familiar Fourteen

Stephanie Plum's latest bounty hunter adventure involves a relative of her boyfriend Joe Morelli. Loretta Rizzi has disappeared leaving Stephanie and Joe in charge of her teenage son Mario, a/k/a Zook. While Stephanie is trying to find Loretta she is also trying to find Joe's cousin Dom who robbed a bank and stashed the money someplace. As if that wasn't enough, Stephanie is working for Ranger for a few days as bodyguard for spoiled rotten singer Brenda. Suddenly Stephanie finds herself involved in the world of online video games, people looking for buried treasure, kidnapping, and more. No wonder she is feeling blue!

"Fearless Fourteen" is a typical Stephanie Plum book. It is one of the funnier books in the series, especially with the online gaming scenes and there are some laugh out loud moments involving Lula and Tank. As usual, author Janet Evanovich fills the book with over the top characters including the familiar ones - Stephanie, Lula, Connie, Joe, Ranger and Grandma Mazur - and some new or not so familiar characters like Zook, Brenda, Dom, Mooner, Gary the Stalker, and Loretta. There is not a lot of Ranger in this book and Stephanie's sister and kids are MIA. All of the action in the book is over the top as always and nothing is believable.

If you've read one Stephanie Plum book, you've basically read them all. There is not much character development and Evanovich tends to rely on the same plot points in each book - bungled bounty hunter attempts; Grandma Mazur refusing to act her age; cars getting blown up; visitations at funeral homes. None of this is deep reading but it did make for mindless reading on a sunny summer afternoon.





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Good, but not the best

I have really enjoyed the Stephanie Plum series. Evanovich is a talented author, and I love her characters in the books. But fearless 14 was just a tad bit dissapointing. It wasn't nearly as funny as some of the previous books, and the characters didn't really evolve all that much.


Out of Ranger

I disagree with many of the readers who thought Janet wasn't up to her usual game in this book. It wasn't the best of her work, but it certainly kept me entertained throughout. I did think characters like Brenda & Gary didn't add anything or propel the story. I would have liked to see more of Ranger in the story. Maybe Janet needs to develop a femme fatale for Ranger, maybe have Stephanie be jealous? I overall enjoy the series and look forward to future books.


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