Title: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line
Author: Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham
Publisher: Random House
Published: March 25th 2014
Series: Veronica Mars #1
How I Served It: Audiobook (Read by Kristen Bell)
How I Got It: Purchased (Barnes and Noble)
"The first book in an original mystery series featuring twenty-eight-year-old Veronica Mars, back in action after the events of Veronica Mars: The Movie.
With the help of old friends—Logan Echolls, Mac Mackenzie, Wallace Fennel, and even Dick Casablancas—Veronica is ready to take on Neptune's darkest cases with her trademark sass and smarts." -- Goodreads
So, maybe it's a bad sign or a bad showing of my loyalty to the franchise or whatever, but my hopes for this book were not especially high. I just didn't see how a book could live up to the show (and I loved the show, and the movie too - LoVe was/is/always will be my OTP). Even with Rob Thomas behind the wheel I just wasn't sure how good it could possibly be. I think I was actually thinking in terms of how bad it was going to be.
Let's be straight, this is NOT Veronica Mars the TV show. There is no Jason Dohring. In fact, Logan is barely in this, which bounces from a little to a lot disappointing. That said, this is by no means bad. In fact, I thought it was really good for what it was. I listened to the audiobook which was read by Kristen Bell, and I think that helped make it feel more real to me. Otherwise I think I would have had a hard time adjusting to accepting that this story is really what happens after the movie and not just someones very well-written fan fiction. I really hope she does the second one too - it really added to the noir feeling legitimately hearing everything in Veronica's voice... plus it was super amusing listening to Bell's attempts at putting on her costars' voices.