Donne's Reviews > Repo Girl

Ok, in the spirit of total transparency, I only added this to my to-read list because I came across the second installment, which is a holiday read and it sounds funny. For anyone who has read enough of my reviews knows that I have a weird quirk about starting series from the beginning (I blame it on the day job). So, here I am reviewing it so I can now go onto the installment that I really wanted to read.

Repo girl, Andi, is funny and entertaining and good people in my book because she rescues a pit bull left alone in a car, she was repossessing, on a sweltering day. Love Andi!!! Cooper, the drop dead gorgeous, Ivy League educated finance guy and part-time, local musician, is absolutely smitten with the smart-@$$, tough talking, repo girl who barely gives him the time of day. Yeah, it’s the typical working-class beauty, living paycheck to paycheck playing hard to get with the smart, successful, talented, gorgeous, rich-guy trope.

Anyway, the dead body shows up pretty quickly (about the 20% mark) smashing through the windshield of a car Andi was repossessing. The dead body turns out to be the skip (a person whose property is repossessed for non-payment) of the car Andi was repossessing and she is arrested and charged with murder. She doesn’t have the money to get out on bail, but her boss “knows a guy” (that whole scenario rarely turns out well) called “The Broker”. The Broker bails Andi out and she has three weeks to pay the 35,000 bail fee back to The Broker.

The rest of the story revolves around Andi trying to figure out who killed the skip and why and how to prove it wasn’t her. Cooper, who was in the car with Andi when the dead skip came through the window, has just as much interest in figuring out what happened since he was arrested too. So, these two knuckleheads start playing detective and interfering in the real investigation, which pisses off the investigating cop, Det. Kendricks. It’s a madcap story of silly craziness that had me cracking up.

The character development for Andi and Cooper was pretty well done, however, the rest of the cast were barely supporting characters than an overall ensemble cast. The story seemed to move at a pretty quick pace and was interesting in the typical romcom fashion. The writing was amusing and entertaining. I’m looking at an overall rating of 3.6 that I will be rounding up to a 4star review. Now, I can read the Christmas one that interested me first.