The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line

As a Veronica Mars fan from when the series aired (or when I decided to watch the whole show during a weekend in March 2013), I truly think this book does the series justice. I watched the movie last month when it came out, but I didn't realise until two days ago that Rob Thomas had also gotten a novel published as a continuation to the movie and when I immediately downloaded the eBook and matching audiobook (WHICH IS READ BY KRISTEN BELL OMG??). I started out listening to the audiobook but I just couldn't just sit there and wait 8 hours to finish this book, and zoomed through the eBook in less than half that time.

There is so much I love about this book. I love that Rob Thomas wrote it and perfectly captured Veronica's to a T in an unfamiliar format. Veronica's thinking process was totally nostalgic to the TV series and an older and more mature Veronica meant she was allowed to take more risks making the storyline a million times better than what the TV series had given us. It was sosososo smart of Thomas to reacquaint the fans with Veronica's mommy issues that weren't addressed in the movie but definitely shaped Veronica as a character.

I am just so happy this book series isn't utter shit and turned out to be a lot better than I had expected and still encapsulated everything Veronica Mars is without missing any traces of her identifiable smart ass remarks.

Props to you, Rob Thomas! I am definitely going to read the next book of this series if/when it comes out.