Trouble is a friend of mine by Stephanie Tromly

After her parents' divorce, Zoe Webster moves from Brooklyn to upstate New York where she meets the weirdly compelling misfit, Philip Digby, and soon finds herself in a series of hilarious and dangerous situations as he pulls her into his investigation into the kidnapping of a local teenage girl which may be related to the disappearance of his kid sister eight years ago.

fogalmam sincs, hogy került az olvasandóim közé ez a borzalom, de nemcsak a főszereplőt meg a tuskó pajtását, hanem magát a könyvet is legszívesebben képen törölném.

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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Preparing to survive a typical day of being Digby's friend wasn't that different from preparing to survive the apocalypse.

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This is a great read. What's not to love? It's full of well rounded characters who are smart, very smart who get into hilarious scrapes and then are smart enough to get themselves out again. Honestly, I loved the pacing. It was not a lot of stalling and not so fast it felt like whiplash. I really wish more authors would pay attention to pacing.
I digress. Sorry.
I made the mistake of looking at reviews before I read this and now I'm in a position to defend it. It is NOT a Sherlock ripoff, nor a Veronica Mars ripoff. It's full of snark. Personally, I can't get enough snark. There is a place in this world for MORE SNARK. It's in good company. No spoilers, but Trouble is also filled with pop culture references and one, a Foster the People quote, is used so appropriately I almost fell off my bed when I read it. Well done.

It loses a star for not much of mystery, and because I can just tell Tromly is going to get much better. Looking forward to more!