What is the best thing about Rob Thomas writing a Veronica Mars book? He gets the voices right! You can hear Keith, Veronica, Mac and Wallace in your mind while reading. I'm not kidding, it's amazing. Maybe another good author would be able to recreate the way these people are supposed to do their lines, but Rob Thomas knows best.

Also: The book is cannon, meaning: In any future Veronica Mars program, be it on TV, in theaters, on a book or an mp3, the events of this book matter.

"The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line" feels like a good Veronica Mars double episode. The mystery is exiting, entertaining and stays mostly ahead of the reader (or as I like to think of myself in this case: the TV viewer with a TV in my head). The characters we know and love make an appearance (and some characters one does not expect show up as well) and the story of the small beach town of Neptune, we all had to leave so many years ago, continues beyond the new (brilliant) movie.

Now, this isn't the best thing, the best thing would have been a fourth, fifth, sixth... season of Veronica Mars back when that was an option. But those times have passed. Now we have a movie (and might get another one...) and a book (there will be another one of those for sure) and that's better than nothing I guess.

If reading is'n your thing there is also an audio book version read by Kristen Bell. It's a lot of fun but to me, the book allowed me to imagine it better than the audio ever could.