Full House [Import] [Paperback]

Janet Evanovich (Author), Charlotte Hughes (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 314 pages
• Publisher: Isis Publishing; Large print e. edition (March 2004)
• ISBN-10: 0753168782
• ISBN-13: 978-0753168783
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (154 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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64 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bigger but not better, September 3, 2002

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Flush Barrett-Browning (Tennessee Valley) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full House (Janet Evanovich's Full Series, No 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

Janet Evanovich is very honest about this book: 'I wrote and published the original in 1989....Charlotte Hughes and I now have made it bigger and better.'

Charlotte Hughes may have made it bigger, but she did not make it better. Friends who have read the original smaller version liked it; no one I've talked to has liked this version.

The characters are typical Evanovich and delightful; the plot seems to be going along nicely, and then the padding begins. Plot is going in all directions and the charm of the Evanovich books is no where in sight.

I bought this book after reading the first four or so chapters; they were a delight. Then the book got boring; I started skipping paragraphs, then pages, then raced on to the improbable ending.

My advice: save your money for the new Plum. Don't go here.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Slapstick, a Romantic Farce!, September 22, 2002

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Jonathan Burgoine "bookseller" (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Full House (Janet Evanovich's Full Series, No 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

"Full House," took me about three hours to read, cover to cover, and thankfully I was only in public for about forty minutes of that, on a bus. I laughed out loud at least once a chapter at Evanovich's typical slapstick style of storytelling - enough to earn strange looks from the other passengers on the bus.

This is no Stephanie Plum mystery - and I didn't go into it expecting one, which I think many others might have and would explain the overall low rating this book received. I enjoyed it as what it was: crazy fun romantic hijinks with impossibly neurotic characters aplenty. When you put in a blonde bombshell airhaid into the home of a strict but fair schoolteacher, add in a young genius who blows things up, a wrestler and his wrestling buddies, a polo-teaching rich man and his crazy ex-fiance, and, of course, an ineffective bug killer, you can't help but set the stage for typical Evanovich fallout. When the schoolteacher falls for the playboy, despite the airhead's attempts to set her up with "Big John" the anatomically exaggerated wrestler, things are sure to fire up as zany as ever.

My one real frustration with the book was how terribly it was edited. Nick, the love interest of our heroine, is referred to as Neil a few times (why would you have to change the name of the character when this book was re-written?), and there are a large enough number of other small mistakes that derailed my train of thought just often enough to make me drop this review from four stars to three.

This book was candy, not a three-course meal, and as a candy-book, it was wonderful. You read it quickly, enjoy it, and then move on to another book. Go in expecting a light and quick read, and you'll be happy.

'Nathan

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute Story!!!, January 21, 2003

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"intentaccess" (Boca Raton, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full House (Janet Evanovich's Full Series, No 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was worth the read. It was not Stephanie Plum, but if it were that would of added to her series. I don't understand all the bad ratings either. I thought it was a very cute story.
Not the adventure but I didn't find this story as predictable as the rest of the reviewers. I found the humor and character style like with the Plum series.

This was the first in the series and rewritten. I can only lay odds that the next one will be even that much better. This book was worth the read and I am sorry for all the bad reviews, I truly do not understand them.