Hot Stuff | Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks

Hot Stuff | Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks | Not what I was expecting........

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Hot Stuff

	Hot Stuff Janet Evanovich, Leanne Banks St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2007 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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Dear Reader,

If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you?re going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like men and marriage. She spends all day in school, earning her teaching degree, and all night working as a bartender in Boston?s South End. Ex-cop Kellen McBride has decided to make Cate?s bar his nightly haunt. He likes Cate?s sassy Irish spirit and wild red hair. He also has an ulterior motive for getting close to her. Cate has sworn off all things romantic, but when she comes home to a ransacked apartment, a roommate who has flown the coop, and a sleeping bullmastiff named Beast, Cate has no choice but to ask Kellen for help. Can Kate resist the charming Kellen McBride while keeping herself out of danger? Or will Kellen turn up the heat on Cate and everything in her life?

We know you?ll have a blast with HOT STUFF!

Janet & Leanne

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Hot Stuff

Cate Madigan is going to school to be a teacher. She works nights in a
bar and keeps her distance from the male customers until Kellen
McBride walks in one night. Kellen is persistent though. His
persistence pays off when Cate actually needs him. Cate is trying to
deter a guy named Pugg who desperately wants to be her boyfriend.
She's also trying to get her family to stop setting her up with the
wrong guys. When her roommate Marty appears to be involved in
something shady and bad guys start knocking on their condo door, Cate
decides that having Kellen around is not a bad thing, especially since
he's an ex cop. The fact that he's really hot isn't a bad thing either!

Hot Stuff is funny, suspenseful and romantic. I loved it! Kellen is
sexy and charming and Cate is a sweetheart. Cate's family and friends
are a blast as well. I read Hot Stuff while relaxing on the beach and
it made a great day that much better!

Nannette
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

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Not what I was expecting........

It was a good book don't get me wrong.....just not what I was expecting. The book was slower than I would have liked in the beginning and it was kinda dull in places but it was a classic "Janet" kind of book. An easy and fun read, I was just expecting more from it.

Recycled Plum

I don't think this one was as bad as the typical non-Plum Evanovich books I've read - the ones that are romance novels with not a whole lot more thrown in (I'm talking about the ones with the Knight-Rider-like car that talks? Not worth reading but I did for some reason).

I'll probably read the next one in this series but from the library or borrowed - mostly because the Plum books keep me hopeful. The characters were all familiar but none stood out as especially great. None were all that likeable or interesting. The southern one was definitely Lula rehashed but not laugh-out-loud funny like the original Lula. The romantic tension was zero and I didn't find myself rooting for the main character or even caring what she did.

I actually probably liked Pugg the best even though the "Pugg this" and "Pugg that" stuff got on my nerves and I was happy when his new girlfriend told him to knock it off (he did thank God). I know I'm probably the only person out there who liked him at all but I thought he had a few hidden redeeming characteristics after you got past the third-person way he had of referring to himself. That got old QUICKLY. Kellen was too fake and uninteresting and definitely not a Joe Morelli.

Who out there didn't know the dog bowl had something hidden in it as soon as it arrived or that the cross-dresser wasn't dead? I don't even remember all the final resolutions - it wasn't a very memorable book. Even after reading the other reviews on here I've forgotten the names of most of the characters. Before reading the reviews I didn't remember any of the names other than Pugg - gee, I wonder why I remember that name?

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Not quite Plum, but not a prune either

I love Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books (the numbered ones, not the in-betweeners) because the characters are entertaining and vivd, the dialogue is lively and believable, and the writing is crisp. Hot Stuff was more like lukewarm. The characters were up to Evanovich's quality and the story had a fun twist to it, but the writing was rushed and the dialogue was ridiculously sophomoric at times. I could take a highlighter and show where Janet was doing the dialogue writing versus someone else. You can't fake witty!!!

Having grown up in the Boston area, the descriptions of the locations were familiar but could have been in just about any U.S. city. Janet and her co-author, Leanne Banks (who I suspect did most of the book) failed to capture the flavor of Boston, and particularly "Southie", the Irish neighborhood where the main character grew up.

While the actual outcome wasn't 100% predictable, it was close. The happily-ever-after ending for all seemed rushed. I would have been open to a sequel to tie up more loose ends. Hopefully, in a second installment, Janet and Leanne could have developed Cate Madigan into an up-and-coming Stephanie Plum.

Even on her worst day, Janet Evanovich is more entertaining than so many other writers of her genre. "Hot Stuff" may not live up to its name but it's still a fun, quick read.

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