Stephanie Plum - Sizzling Sixteen

[4Katie]

FINALLY - a new Stephanie Plum book! Sizzling Sixteen will be released on June 22. The Kindle price is currently $12.99.

Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky” bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn’t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . .

BAD LUCK:
Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs.

GOOD LUCK:
Being in the business of tracking down people, Stephanie, Lula, and Connie have an advantage in finding Vinnie. If they can rescue him, it will buy them some time to raise the cash.

BAD LUCK:
Finding a safe place to hide Vinnie turns out to be harder than raising $786,000. Vinnie’s messing up Mooner’s vibe, running up pay-per-view porn charges in Ranger’s apartment, and making Stephanie question genetics.

GOOD LUCK:
Between a bonds office yard sale that has the entire Burg turning out, Mooner’s Hobbit-Con charity event, and Uncle Pip’s lucky bottle, they just might raise enough money to save the business, and Vinnie, from ruin.

BAD LUCK:
Saving Vincent Plum Bail Bonds means Stephanie can keep being a bounty hunter. In Trenton, this involves hunting down a man wanted for polygamy, a turnpike toilet paper bandit, and a drug dealer with a pet alligator named Mr. Jingles.

GOOD LUCK:
The job of bounty hunter comes with perks in the guise of Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, and the dark and dangerous security expert, Ranger. With any luck at all, Uncle Pip’s lucky bottle will have Stephanie getting lucky---the only question is . . . with whom?

Sizzling Sixteen . . . so hot, the pages might spontaneously combust!

Ranger... Joe... oh, my!

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Thanks for the heads up.  I haven't read 15 yet and won't until it comes way down in price.  I guess a trip to the library is in order.   

[drenee]

On the Barnes & Noble website last week I found 15 for $6.98, HB. 
I stopped in a B&N store but could not find a copy.  I'm also still
waiting for a price drop on 15.  So it's hard to get excited about 16. 
Although, I am still excited that the series is continuing.
deb

[Belita]

Vinnie stays in Ranger's apartment? The thing that I don't like is that Ranger worked so hard to keep where he lives secret and then all of a sudden Stephanie finds it through his GPS and now everyone knows about it and he's even willing to allow other people to stay there?

I am excited for more Stephanie Plum books, though, since I just caught up.

[devilmafia]

thanks for the heads up

[drenee]

Belita, you might want to use the spoiler on your post in case others have not read far enough to already know this.
thanks,
deb

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Belita, you might want to use the spoiler on your post in case others have not read far enough to already know this.
thanks,
deb

Yes, please do.  Most of us will peek anyway, but it's nice to give people a choice.   

[Belita]

Oops! Sorry about that! 

[drenee]

It's okay, Belita.  You haven't been around long enough to know all the things we do. 
When we do discuss books we either use the spoiler bar, or let folks know there are
spoilers in the thread.
deb

[Belita]

It's okay, Belita.  You haven't been around long enough to know all the things we do. 
When we do discuss books we either use the spoiler bar, or let folks know there are
spoilers in the thread.
deb

The other forums I frequent forgo the spoilers once it's been out for a little bit. It's good to know that here the spoiler tag is used regardless and I'm glad I saw the reminders soon enough and hopefully didn't spoil too many people.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

The other forums I frequent forgo the spoilers once it's been out for a little bit. It's good to know that here the spoiler tag is used regardless and I'm glad I saw the reminders soon enough and hopefully didn't spoil too many people.

That makes sense, of course, but most of us refuse to buy a book until it comes down to paperback price. 

I've now read the entire series twice waiting for that day to come.  If it doesn't, I'll just buy a used book from the Amazon Marketplace.

[Andra]

Well, 16 sounds like it may be more entertaining than the last two numbers books.
But Vinnie staying at Ranger's??  Wonder where Ranger is staying?

[Belita]

That makes sense, of course, but most of us refuse to buy a book until it comes down to paperback price. 

I've now read the entire series twice waiting for that day to come.  If it doesn't, I'll just buy a used book from the Amazon Marketplace.

I do that, too. The events I was referring to were in the quote in the first post and events that are in Stephanie Plum books already released in paperback. I don't mind the spoiler tags, I think it's nice since sometimes people even discover books years after they're released, as I did with this series. I just was explaining why I didn't realize it needed spoiler tags. I was also thinking, from the blurb posted for Sizzling Sixteen, that people who haven't gotten that far would have been able to infer that the other characters learned where Ranger lives. I'll just be more conservative in what I consider to be spoilers since it's the forum culture here.

Andra, I wonder if Ranger will be out of town. It could be funny, though, if Ranger and Vinnie had to live together! Ranger does only have one bed, though so Vinnie would either have to sleep on the couch or they could make for interesting bedfellows!

[drenee]

I had not even heard of the Plum books until I came to KB. 
I also learned about the Outlander series, the In Death series,
and a few more I haven't managed to start yet.
deb

[VictoriaP]

I had not even heard of the Plum books until I came to KB. 
I also learned about the Outlander series, the In Death series,
and a few more I haven't managed to start yet.
deb

Yep, same here--same books too, along with the Dresden Files, the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and dozens more that I can't even remember at this point.  LOL  So yes, we do spoiler just about everything....while persistently trying to get more and more new folks dragged into reading these things so we have others to talk to!     Don't fret though, Belita, no one's mad.  This is about the friendliest place you'll ever find on the web!

Meanwhile, on topic: It's nice to see we have a date, and the synopsis shows promise.  But Heaven help me, if Sixteen is as bad as Fifteen was, I'll have to live with the fact that I'll never know who Steph chooses.  I cannot and will not spend perfectly good money on crap like that last book ever again.  No way in heck I'm preordering this one, I'll be waiting until there's a hundred reviews or so--and some comments from those here that I trust--before I'm willing to buy this one.  My mother-in-law said the same thing; I read them all back to back last year, she's been reading them since they first came out, and we were both completely disgusted with Fifteen.  It wasn't clever, it wasn't well written, and it wasn't even funny since the humor was basically all third grade potty-mouth style.

As for the way the author has been destroying Ranger's "mysterious" persona, she's been gutting both male characters over the last 4 books or so.  They've got from being strong, smart, dominant men to being wishy washy brainless twits whose lives revolve around Steph.  Makes me wonder what's going on in the author's life that's completely soured her on men!  I mean, for pity's sake, in Fifteen, Ranger--hotshot Ranger--has to bring Steph in to solve a mystery within his own business.  Are you freaking kidding me?!  She spots things he doesn't notice?!  Please.  Absolutely freaking unbelievable.

But yes, Ranger and Vinnie living together would be something to see for sure.  Fingers crossed that this one is the book that gets the series back on track!

[cheerio]

Not a bad opening price, i might wait a little till the prices falls below $10

[Betsy the Quilter]

The other forums I frequent forgo the spoilers once it's been out for a little bit. It's good to know that here the spoiler tag is used regardless and I'm glad I saw the reminders soon enough and hopefully didn't spoil too many people.

Not to worry Belita!  Thanks for fixing it.  Here, we find that new people are always discovering the book series that we discuss so we try not to "spoil" things.  Some discussion threads put Spoiler Alert in the subject, and in those cases we don't require spoiler block.

Welcome to KindleBoards, by the way, I don't think I've said "hi" yet!

Betsy

[Belita]

Yep, same here--same books too, along with the Dresden Files, the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and dozens more that I can't even remember at this point.  LOL  So yes, we do spoiler just about everything....while persistently trying to get more and more new folks dragged into reading these things so we have others to talk to!     Don't fret though, Belita, no one's mad.  This is about the friendliest place you'll ever find on the web!

Meanwhile, on topic: It's nice to see we have a date, and the synopsis shows promise.  But Heaven help me, if Sixteen is as bad as Fifteen was, I'll have to live with the fact that I'll never know who Steph chooses.  I cannot and will not spend perfectly good money on crap like that last book ever again.  No way in heck I'm preordering this one, I'll be waiting until there's a hundred reviews or so--and some comments from those here that I trust--before I'm willing to buy this one.  My mother-in-law said the same thing; I read them all back to back last year, she's been reading them since they first came out, and we were both completely disgusted with Fifteen.  It wasn't clever, it wasn't well written, and it wasn't even funny since the humor was basically all third grade potty-mouth style.

As for the way the author has been destroying Ranger's "mysterious" persona, she's been gutting both male characters over the last 4 books or so.  They've got from being strong, smart, dominant men to being wishy washy brainless twits whose lives revolve around Steph.  Makes me wonder what's going on in the author's life that's completely soured her on men!  I mean, for pity's sake, in Fifteen, Ranger--hotshot Ranger--has to bring Steph in to solve a mystery within his own business.  Are you freaking kidding me?!  She spots things he doesn't notice?!  Please.  Absolutely freaking unbelievable.

But yes, Ranger and Vinnie living together would be something to see for sure.  Fingers crossed that this one is the book that gets the series back on track!

I've noticed the same thing about the last few books. I especially get frustrated when Diesel gets thrown into the mix in the "Between the Numbers" books. I don't like those books at all and only read them so I'm not missing those little bits of storyline that get reference in the numbers books. I get that the author likes to paint Stephanie as a damsel in distress, but she doesn't even have the power to get these men to respect her space and not just randomly feel her up and kiss her all the time? I can see them flirting with her, but the lack of respect for her personal space is ridiculous. If the author is going to keep playing these relationships this way, I wish she would at least have Stephanie sleep with Ranger when she and Morelli are in their "off-again" phases.

I thought the way that Stephanie had to help out Ranger in the book where his daughter was kidnapped was plausible, but agree with you about it being ridiculous that Ranger couldn't take care of the problem with his company alone. I expect craziness from this series, but I would like it to at least keep the craziness reasonable within the characters' personas.

Thanks, Betsy, for the welcome!

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

I never read any of the between the numbers books because I thought throwing Diesel into the mix was a bit much. 

As for Diesel, there's supposed to be a separate Diesel series where he's moved away from Trenton with the monkey (forget it's name).  That I might read if JE changes publishers. 

[Andra]

I read the bewteen the numbers books and the early ones were kinda ??  But Plum Spooky cracked me up...

[jonconnington]

Love the series...Janet Evanovichhas a real gift for screwball comedy

[sebat]

Yay!!  At least I have one book to look forward to.  I have been really disappointed by the delay with the new Jim Butcher and Charlaine Harris books.