Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Mystery right up until the end!! I really enjoy the humor and quirky characters. On to book number fifteen! End

The Stephanie plum books are perfect entertainment. Lots of action, but not too much graphic gore. Lots of romance, but not too much mush or graphic slush. The BEST characters ! A little hard on cars. And always laugh out loud funny.

The item was as described . Wonderful writing . Can not wait to read the next one. It was delivered exactly when promised..

This is one of my favorite Plum books, even though I've read it a bunch of times, I keep going back to it. I love Mooner, and Zook and Gary are perfect compliments.

14 Books into her full-length Stephanie Plum series (with several joint and silly fictional NON-SERIES efforts between her main series of books), Janet Evanovich is succumbing to the syndrome that best selling authors who are forced to write a new book in series every year (due to contract and the ongoing need for $$$ at all costs) all suffer from.It's harder for Evanovich than many mystery writers, because she's not just trying to juggle and grow characters, and keep the mystery, or whodunit, in a state of suspense. She's also trying to demonstrate the somewhat ribald and slapstick humor that have kept her over-the-top series about a female, Trenton,NJ bounty hunter who is an endearing stumblebum, a perennial favorite.It was almost predictable that the characters would grow stale, the plots suffer from sameness and the humor dry up over time. Evanovich has been accused of "phoning it in" and just grinding out a new Stephanie tale every summer to keep the money machine flowing.And where she got some positive, quirky reviews for books 1 and 2, followed by raves and guffaws for the next 6-8 books in the series, she was bound to get some fans starting to "boo" her. And so it goes. Patricia Cornwell has lived through the same thing. I'm glad that some, very rich authors (JK Rowling) know when to quit to preserve the integrity of the ongoing story; to finish strong.I won't belabor with a synopsis; there were subplots and little vignettes popping up all over the place, in an effort to keep the story frenetic and action-packed. In all the frenzy, the editing was poorly done. One of the story lines involved an aging celebrity, Brenda (think Tina Turner with no class). I was happy when Stephanie finished her bodyguard gig for Brenda, only to have Brenda continue to pop up throughout the story.For me, the book lost its joy when it decided to focus on the aforementioned Brenda, not a likeable, humorous or even necessary character, except in cameo, and when Evanovich rolled out the monkey.Yes, the monkey. `Nuff said.I think it's time for Evanovich to retire her heroine, maybe in one big "15 tale. At this point, criticism of what she is turning out has become pretty strident from followers who don't understand what the best seller machine is all about for the publishers. I'll buy "15", and look forward to it, the same as I did this installment, but I, too, am wearying of Evanovich not putting forth the effort or time to sharpen the humor and carefully introduce characters we care about. I will say that, no doubt, she'll sell a lotta books.

Stephanie Plum is continuing with her history of hunting down criminals and blowing up cars in Fearless Fourteen, the fourteenth adventure in the series by Janet Evanovich. This time her main suspect is Loretta, who stole alcohol and failed to turn up for her court date. In the process of apprehending Loretta and getting her re-bonded, she becomes involved in an adventure involving Loretta's brother, Dom, who is looking to recover his robbery earnings now that he's out of jail. However one of his partner-in-crime wants the money and is impatient, resorting to kidnapping Loretta to get what he wants. Stephanie (and Morelli and Ranger) must work together to try and recover Loretta and the stolen money in time.I love the Stephanie Plum books because they are so outrageous laugh-out-loud funny. There isn't as much "substance" to them as some of the other mysteries I read, but they do deliver in the laughs department, and Fearless Fourteen was no exception.While there was no car bombings or explosions, we did have a house bombing, a monkey that likes to hump and a aging star that likes to get intoxicated and is looking for husband #6. So needless to say there is plenty of action and lots of laughs!!I liked this Stephanie Plum adventure. There are hints towards a future between Stephanie and Morelli, and it will be interesting to see if that plays out. While I'm hoping Stephanie might choose Ranger down the track, right now I'm happy to read about her love life with Morelli.There wasn't as much "mystery" with this one but there were lots of laughs, including Grandma Mazur playing the role of a goth gamer, and for this reason it was a solid 4-star read for me!

i love the Stephanie Plum series and followed it faithfully from Book one. But now that we're up to book fourteen i'm getting a bit tired of the plot now. Stephanie Plum has still not chosen between the two lead men characters in the book and the other characters i think have all had their moments in previous books so not sure where the main story and sub-stories can go from here. let's hope the author wraps it up soon before it becomes another series that is just going for the sake of just going with no substnace in the storyline.

I've read all the previous books in this series over the years and was recently looking for a light read so downloaded this to my kindle. I really enjoyed it and had more than usual laugh out loud moments - I think Ms Evanovich is just so much more comfortable with her characters now. Lula was usually who made me laugh the most. I used to work with someone from Trenton (I thought it was a fictional place until she said where she was from) and was of the same dress-sense and build (but not the same career!) and I just picture her as Lula.This book has got me back into the series again and it won't be long before I will be trying the next one.

Brilliant as always

I thought by the time I got to no. 14 in the Stephanie Plum series it would be same old, same old. And whilst to some degree it is, with some ridiculous moments, it still had me laughing out loud on several occasions. The ageing singer Brenda was a great invention, bring on no. 15!

Very funny as usual.