Who cares about walking when you live to run?Īs she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. Here is the description from the publisher: Now that I'm used to reading on my Kindle Paperwhite, however, I am just going to borrow the Kindle version from the library. I bought this book for a quarter at Salvation Army years ago and for some reason I held on to it. I've actually had this one picked out for several months-I'm going to read 'The Running Dream' by Wendelin Van Draanen (Amazon affiliate link). 'The One with the Football' - Read a sports themed book. It was a good choice for August's theme I doubt I'll read any more of the series, but I'm glad I read this one. I can see that fitting with the comedic part of the book, though the book wouldn't have been funny if it had been very realistic. The situations were extremely unrealistic. When reading, I enjoyed it and I can definitely see why others would, but I really prefer stories that make you want to stay up all night reading. The story didn't draw me in to where I just wanted to keep reading. For someone who just wants to read a straight-up entertaining story from beginning to end, this is that. The storyline was very easy to follow-no shifting timelines or characters (I actually really like books that shift around like that, like psychological thrillers, but not for this genre). I wanted to smack her several times for not exactly having common sense in certain situations, but she's still a fun character.

That actually added to the humor of the book, albeit unintentionally. The book was published in 1999, so it's kind of nostalgic to read about the 90's. She knows nothing about it, so a lot of the humor is when she's trying to learn the ins and outs of bounty hunting mostly by learning the hard way. The reward is $10,000, and she thinks bounty hunting will be easy money. She hears about a bounty on a police officer who was involved in a shooting and then went missing. The basic storyline is that Stephanie finds herself out of a job and she literally has nothing to fall back on-she's even selling her appliances to a pawn shop to get enough money to get by while she tries to get a job. She says a lot of one-liners and she gets in funny situations. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but entertaining. I feel like this was a good choice for the topic for me because it's a suspense novel with a lot of humor surrounding the protagonist.

One for the money by janet