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You heard that right. VMHQ is hosting a book club meeting on Discord so that we can prepare for the upcoming Veronica Mars Revival. We’ll be reading both The Thousand Dollar Tan Line and Mr. Kiss and Tell.

Here’s how it will work. We’re going to divide the books into chunks of approx. five chapters at a time and give you a week to read each section. Every Friday afternoon we’ll open a new room in Discord to discuss the week’s reading - an invitation and link will post on both Tumblr and Twitter when the room is open. 

To encourage participation, we won’t be meeting at a set time and running a “structured” discussion. We just want everyone to read the books together, then share their insights/thoughts/feelings with the group. To help get the conversation flowing, we will pin some starter questions to the top of the chat. You can answer them, ask a few of your own, or discuss anything covered within the set chapters.

Our first “meeting” will be Friday, February 15, 2019 so be on the lookout for the invitation and link. You’ll need to read the Prologue through Chapter Four of ‘The Thousand Dollar Tan Line’ BEFORE that Friday.

Now to start things off right and to continue our theme of five, we are giving away FIVE (5) digital copies of each book! Enter to win a copy of ‘The Thousand Dollar Tan Line’ by following THIS LINK and submitting the required information. 

It’s time for our first meeting! We’ll be discussing the Prologue through Chapter Four of The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line inside our Discord server. 

Just follow this link to join us: https://discord.gg/b96UBjt 

You’re not in any way dumb, anon, but you’re definitely in for a treat! Yes, Ask the Librarian can confirm that there are two VM books, both sequels to the 2014 movie. The books were written by Rob Thomas (showrunner of the VM TV show, and writer/director of the film) and his co-author Jennifer Graham. They should be available at any major bookstore, shelved in the mystery section.

The first, The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line, came out in 2014 shortly after the movie, and is its immediate sequel. Here’s the introductory blurb and cover pic:

Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She’s traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant cash earned by catching cheating spouses until she can score her first big case.Now it’s spring break, and college students descend on Neptune, transforming the beaches and boardwalks into a frenzied, week-long rave. When a girl disappears from a party, Veronica is called in to investigate. But this is no simple missing person’s case; the house the girl vanished from belongs to a man with serious criminal ties, and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime. And when a major break in the investigation has a shocking connection to Veronica’s past, the case hits closer to home than she ever imagined.

The second book, Mr. Kiss and Tell, came out a year later in 2015, and follows the events of the first book by a few months. Here’s the data on that one:

The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside town’s ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and high-profile scandals that seem to follow its elite guests. When a woman claims that she was brutally assaulted in one of its rooms and left for dead by a staff member, the owners know that they have a potential powder keg on their hands. They turn to Veronica to disprove—or prove—the woman’s story.The case is a complicated mix of hard facts, mysterious occurrences, and uncooperative witnesses. The hotel refuses to turn over its reservation list and the victim won’t divulge who she was meeting that night. Add in the facts that the attack happened months ago, the victim’s memory is fuzzy, and there are holes in the hotel’s surveillance system, and Veronica has a convoluted mess on her hands. As she works to fill in the missing pieces, it becomes clear that someone is lying—but who? And why?

Am i reading this wrong or does this message come across as kinda bitchy? Anyway...

I read bothThe Thousand Dollar Tan Lineand Mr. Kiss and Tellwhen they were released. I really enjoyed them, not as much as I would have enjoy a mini series, but still. I have posted about them on this blog, just not recently.

I liked that there was more Logan in MKAT and everyone else as well, but I actually preferred the first books mystery a lot more.