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Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, No. 10) (Stephanie Plum Novels) by Janet Evanovich
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Janet Evanovich Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2005-06-21 ISBN: 0312936222 Number of pages: 352 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Product features: - ISBN13: 9780312936228
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Book Reviews of Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, No. 10) (Stephanie Plum Novels)Book Review: A Terrible Disappointment Summary: 2 Stars
I know I share the following feelings with countless fans of the Stephanie Plum series: the first books in the series were a tremendous surprise-hilarious and endearing. Finding books with that much humor that were that fun to read in cheap, popular, paperback form is very rare, and a treasure to find, and it made me a big fan.
The books were fresh and original and funny in a way very few books of this kind are, and I think everyone should read the first books in the series. There was something quintessentially American about them and when I was lonely for my husband, family, and friends while doing research in a foreign country they cheered me up and reminded me of home while I froze to death waiting on a long line to be allowed into a poorly heated library.
I read and loved the first several books and recommended them to family and friends who also became big fans. And, like me, they also felt the series began to decline around the 8th book. This book was the absolute worst, though. My friend and I were discussing it and it was so bad it almost defies description. My friend said "I still love Stephanie Plum, but WHERE WAS SHE? This whiny person doesn't resemble the resilient Stephanie we've come to love AT ALL!"
The reviewers who say that this book gives undue attention to Ranger's shower gel and Ranger's sheets are not exaggerating! But most of all my friend and I and other reviewers were horrified at the ending. (Do not read on if you don't want a spoiler...but I don't recommend reading the book anyway).
For one thing, it showed a FRIGHTENING DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE! Ok, the "Junkman", the "gang leader" who is supposedly obsessed with Stephanie is a sadist who had to be killed in self-defense. We can accept that. But my friend and I were horrified at the casual manner in which a laughing Stephanie, Ranger, and Morelli, and Sally Sweet, simply walk over the dead bodies of a bunch of KIDS with no regard for them. Some kids get involved with gangs/drugs and aren't bad-IN THE OTHER BOOKS STEPHANIE ALWAYS SHOWED RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE, AND COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE WHO NEVER HAD A CHANCE! That was one of the great features of Evanovich's books previously. She always had Stephanie regret death, even if it was in self-defense and even if the person was a jerk. She made Stephanie lovable and here she just makes her callous.
Not to mention, she was saved by Sally showing up in a bus. That was so contrived and silly. And I am sick of this ridiculous Ranger/Morelli triangle. Ranger is cool but not providing a future. Stephanie isn't 19, she's 30! As someone about to be turning that age in a few months, by this age I, and I daresay most young women my age, would not string along forever a guy they truly love who loves them so they can occasionally hook up with the dangerous guy. In the first few books Steph is attracted to Ranger, but he is a side note and Morelli is the main focus and the tension between them is great. I miss that.
Anyway, I'm going to get "Eleven on Top" at the library in hopes that Evanovich's editor had a talk with her and she will go back to writing the great books she used to. I hear Stephanie temporarily quits her job and tries her hand at some new ones in "11" which sounds funny and I hope it has the humor and warmth of the earlier books. I also am getting a little sick of Valerie, I wish they'd ship her off again. And I agree with everyone who said Lula is good in small doses, but cannot dominate the story. Nor can Grandma Mazur (I love her of course) etc. Nor can Connie, or Valerie, or her endearing but annoying husband, or any of the other side characters. Only Stephanie and Morelli can. And show more of Stephanie's nemesis Joyce, I love all the revenge she gets on her!
Ms. Evanovich, we do love you, and you are talented, but this book was so bad I could barely get through it and in fact had to skip portions, when I used to savor every word. What a tragedy!
Summary of Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, No. 10) (Stephanie Plum Novels)She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. He mother's convinced she'll end up dead...or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thought it would sound good to put it that way...)
It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruction of yet another car. It would be just another day in the life of Stephanie Plum...except that she becomes the target of a gang. And the target of an even scarier, more dangerous force that comes to Trenton. With super bounty hunter Ranger out of town (and Stephanie on the outs with vice cop Morelli), she finds herself alone, with a decision to make: how to protect herself and where to hide while on the hunt for a killer known as the Junkman. There's only one safe place, and it has Ranger's name all over it-if she can find it. And if the Junkman doesn't find her first. With Lula riding shotgun and Grandma Mazur on the loose, Stephanie Plum is racing against the clock in her most suspenseful novel yet. Ten Big Ones is page-turning entertainment and Janet Evanovich is the best there is.
Stephanie Plum, girl bounty hunter, the terror of Trenton, the bane of her boyfriend Joe Morelli's existence, and the delight of her crazy grandma's heart, is in the wrong place at the wrong time--as usual. Just happening to be indulging her nachos jones at a local deli when it's robbed by the notorious Red Devils, Plum is the eye witness who could put the gang leader, known as the Junkman, behind bars... if he just lets her live long enough. Looking for a place to hide out from the killer until the cops catch up with him, Stephanie sneaks into her fellow bounty hunter Ranger's apartment without telling Morelli, who's not overly fond of him. All the usual suspects in this long-running series are along for a wilder than ever ride, including Lula the gun-toting ex-hooker, Grandma Mazur, Stephanie's pregnant sister Valerie and her fiancé, as well as a host of minor characters who bring Trenton's seedier environs to life. Ten Big Ones is another madcap caper by a writer whose fans will doubtless catapult this easy beach read to the top of the bestseller list. --Jane Adams
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