Book Review: Mr Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars #2)

Book: Mr Kiss and Tell

Authors: Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham

Series: Veronica Mars

Published: 2015

TW: Rape

Veronica is now settled in her life in Neptune. She has a car, an apartment, and Logan is finally on shore leave. Veronica is hired by an insurance company to determine a rapist. A girl was found half dead in a ditch, beaten and raped. She spent months saying she didn’t remember what happened to her. Now she does and she is accusing a former member of the Neptune Grand hotel staff as her rapist. That could give her millions if proven true. Veronica is hired to prove or disprove her story. Meanwhile, Weevil’s trial is happening and Keith Mars is adamant on making the sheriff department, and the Sherriff himself, pay for planting evidences.

Mr Kiss and Tell is a very nice Veronica Mars story. It is always awesome to have Veronica involved in a case she is passionate about, seeing her kicking ass and taking names. The story is fast paced, never stopping too much, going from one case to the other or giving us a glimpse of Veronica’s life.

As usual, with Veronica, things could never be simple. She doubts herself, the world, her cases, her relationship, her job, her life, everything. Typical Veronica that we love and cherish. Her relationship with Logan is its usual turbulent state, with its bumps along the way. Her relationship with her father is still awesome as usual, as is her friendship with Wallace and Mac.

Leo also appears a lot in this book, which I quite liked. I like Leo, he was one of my favorite of Veronica’s boyfriends. He is very important help for Veronica during her search for the rapist and a nice character as well.

The plot is interesting and the mystery is good. It is always lovely to see Veronica’s crazy plans and how she drags everyone else into what she is doing. As mentioned before, there is a trigger warning for rape and rape discussions, as well as the usual misogynistic quips brought to you by your favorite police department.

Something else that I liked is to see the character development for the characters, especially for Weevil and his relationship to the other characters as well as his choices during the book.

I would recommend this book to all Veronica Mars fans and fans of mystery novels.