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book was good sometimes a little too graphic, but it kept me in suspense and had a decent ending! I would read more of this series if I could get it for free! OK book.

Interesting story line.
Juvie kids after a few years, when they have separate lives that violently collide,
Please Note: I read this book in Septemberfrom a copy I won in a giveaway, All opinions are my own,

About the Book: Bookin the Leah Ryan mysteries introduces us to hardasnails Leah Ryan former juvenile car thief, now a construction worker.
When her car is repossessed, she decides to try to get a job there the owner, Callahan, gives her a chance and she quickly shows she knows what she is doing.
On one of the first jobs, she rescues a mistreated Rottweiler, who is called Buddy, and takes him in, On another of the earliest jobs, she repossesses the car of the local drug lord and pimp, Brent Woodard, who then sets out to make her life miserable she, of course, sets out to return the favor.
By the end, she has contacted a bunch of her old friends and even her brother, recently released from jail after hacking into a government database, is involved.


My Thoughts: Fastmoving and high tension, this is a book to keep you reading through to the end, I really enjoyed it. There were a couple plot mishaps most obviously when she first says her brother was three years old one year after her mother left them, and then later says he was four prior to her mother leaving but they were minor enough to not reduce my enjoyment of the story.
I already had book, “Finding Chloe,” and also picked up book, “Dirty Business, ” I highly recommend these books to those who enjoy a kickbutt heroine, Great stuff! Great read!

Loved the characters, Keeps you on edge but in a fun way, Can't wait to read the next one in the series, Free on Amazon . Action Action Action!!!! Great read! Leah Ryan heard a noise outside at four o'clock in the morning, and as this was the time she got up everyday to go to her construction job she went to get the morning paper.
When Leah got outside she felt that some one was in the shadows hiding and she called out to

him, Leah never expected to see a totally gorgeous man standing there wanting to repossess her jeep! She knew that she was behind on her payments due to the huge lawyer's fees for her brother Jesse, but was she that far behind Leah watched as her jeep was loaded on the tow truck and since she had no way to get to the site of construction she was fired.
It was that man's fault who took her jeep and he could just hire her by George! Leah had the knack of stealing cars since she was in her teens and knew that she could repossess carsand this time it would be legal!

Callahan Parker knew from the moment that he saw Leah at his office that she would be trouble, she was a woman for goodness sake! Repossessing was a dangerous job for a man much less than a woman, yet Cal found himself giving her a chance.
Cal would show her the ropes and see if she could hack it, but what he did not expect was for her to be a natural at it and pissing off a drug lord!

Tracy Sharp writes a very stimulating book that had me rapidly reading.
The book was fast paced, filled with hot sweaty sex to make you clench your thighs, and I will forgive her calling her brother Tommy when his name was Jesse.
Repo Chick Blues is a book where the heroine is a control freak who can definitely kick ass!


I'm on a constant lookout for books with action heroines set in the modern era.
Tracy Sharp's Repo Chick Blues fills the bill quite nicely, Main character Leah Ryan is fully fleshed out, She is believable, likeable, funny, tough, feminine and imperfect, We care about her character and also the people around her, She has some skeletons in her closet but they are realistic and add to the story, Overall I was quite impressed with Sharp's writing, This in not your average indie author, Grammar, spelling and editing are all way above average if it weren't for a few missing quotation marks and double words that slipped past spellcheck you wouldn't know it wasn't published by a big time book publisher.
These are minor technical gaffes and easily overlooked,

Leah is a former juvenile delinquent and has lived a checkered past, Her libido is fully functioning and there are some sexy moments through the book but they are all tastefully written and germane to the story.
Some mild profanity and humorous dancing around of the 'F' word may not appeal to everyone but mainstream adult readers won't find anything offensive here.
The story is mostly believable though the reader may have to suspend reality a bit here and there, Despite the author having studied up on auto repossessing and car theft a few technical errors occur that probably will only bother the car geeks of which I am one.
Lastly, this is the second book written by a female author that gets motorcycles wrong you accelerate by twisting the throttle, not pushing a pedal.
These are mostly minor quibbles and a reader will most likely just shrug and keep turning the pages, You WILL want to turn the pages to find out what ultimately happens to dear Leah, and that is the point of a thriller.
Good writing, character driven story, a gun battle or two, . . what more could you ask for This is the first book by Tracy Sharp I believe I have read, . . I got turned on to her Repo Chick series because she did a combo book with Jack Kilborn Jacked Up!, I am a huge fan of Jack Daniels and her series Kilborn, When I read Jacked Up I wanted to get to know more about Leah Ryan and her Repo blues,

I was NOT disappointed!!! This book was well written, The characters where interesting and had depth, The book was very entertaining, and held my interest throughout, was difficult to put down, I love when a book makes me laugh, cringe, get angry with the characters, and maybe a little tear of sadness not a lot a single tear.
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This book had it all including some good sex, If you like a tough heroine who can kick butt then this book is for you, It's packed with raw action, steamy love scenes and a look at life on the seedy end of town, Surprisingly there's an emotional attachment to friends and family that make you see there's more to Leah Ryan than what you first expect.
Can't wait to read the sequel for more action!good book This was basically a thriller that tried to be a mystery, but it wasn't an "edge of your seat" type thriller, and the word is really too strong, but I can't think of anything better.
I read this because I'm a fan of JA Korthrath's Jack Daniel's series and read Jacked Up, I really like the premise here, Leah Ryan is a great character, I liked this book fine, but it was at times hard to stick with it and see it to resolution,

I prefer to talk about what I liked rather than what I didn't because I'm a writer myself and am sensitive to that.
I'm a voracious reader and I love being taken along for a ride, I don't mind if reality gets bent along the way and can suspend belief very well, So I'm going to start with what I liked,

I really like Leah Ryan as a character, I think she's quirky and fun, she has hangups, she does things for stupid reasons and not everything goes her way, Jack was the same way a quirky and good character, Callahan too. Jesse was almost too lightly brushed, but there's potential,

The story was fine, but it was often hard to follow the logic that allowed the characters to go from point A to point B.
For instance, why would Callahan, a soleproprietor of his own business who theoretically has his own bills and rent to pay, suddenly start spending all his time with this new girl he just met and actually even repossessed her car I rolled with it, but in the back of my mind I was thinking this has got to be out of character for him.
And on the same token why would Leah, who says many times how much she needs to work, risk her newfound job for something that, in the beginning, has only a peripheral effect on her.


Like I said, I rolled with it and it didn't break the story for me, They were concerns I thought of as I went along, What was harder was that the internal dialog was clipped, sometimes only voicing a halfthought, and much time was spent telling me the reader why things were how they were.
Followed by a passage showing me with a fun series of paragraphs in which said action/thought/reaction was presented, This was much harder for me to continue though, There were so many opportunities for the author to flesh out Leah and Jack, especially, that I felt sad I only got to know their surface characters.


Also, Leah talks about being in Juvenille Hall, stealing cars, and such, She talks about what a bad kid she was, The flashback sections were great and some of the best written parts of the book, I loved revisiting that part of her past, Bringing it forward though, it was all talk again,

And this is where my sense of disbelief overrode by ability to go with the flow if we're to believe Leah and Jack's background is in petty crime and car theft, how in the world is Leah:.
Able to shoot someone in the head with nary a sad thought, and, Such a great marksman that she can shoot up so many people in the park, And: How did they walk away from any kind of implication in the murders and dead bodies in the shack Was it never found, never reported Did no one ever wonder what became of Trooper Finn Cops usually go crazy investigating when one of their own is thought to be hurt or missing.


I liked this book fine, It wasn't bad, and I will read the next one too no doubt, I think I might have enjoyed Repo Chick Blues more if I had read it first, It's clear that Leah's character development is farther along in Jacked Up,

But if there is anything I can ask of Ms, Sharp for future expeditions with Leah: please please please let us see her clearer, Don't be afraid to paint her in and show us her past, She's fascinating and would make her closer to our hearts, Thanks for the stories! Repo Chick Blues, The Leah Ryan Series
by Tracy Sharp

This was a very wellwritten novel.
The author writes very much in the style of J, A. Konrath, so I wasn't surprised to see that she has written not only this series, but a couple of books in the Amazon Jack Daniels Kindle World, and coauthored a short story featuring Leah Ryan and some characters from Konrath's Jack Daniels series, as well as her other works on her own and in other J.
A. Konrath Kindle Worlds. Like Konrath, some of her thriller work is gritty and sometimes hard to read, gory and/or horrific, But if you have the stomach for it, this novel is wellplotted and paced, The characterizations are fully fleshed out and consistent, and most importantly, they are believable, There is plenty of danger and a boatload of action, Good editing and proofing, the only error I found being one of digital formatting, which is not the author's problem, but the digitizer.
Leah Ryan's world may not be glamorous or conservative, but it is never boring,

The storyline, in short, is that Leah is a former car thief who did time as a juvenile, She works hard the past few years in construction but is still in debt as she is paying the legal fees of her younger brother, who is about to be released from prison.
When her car is repossessed and she loses her job because she had no way to get there without the car, she decides she'll try to put those longago car thief skills to work and gets a job with the company that repossessed her car.
As one might imagine, repossessing vehicles doesn't make one many friends, But one particular repossession puts her in the sights of someone she knew when she did time in juvie and he was an enemy then, too.
His threats extend not only to Leah, but to her brother, her friends, and her boss and coworkers, Enough is enough.

This series is definitely on my "toread" list, Awesome

Funny, action, suspense and romance what more could a girl ask for in a book that keeps wondering what Leah will do next For a free book I really liked it.
I think that this series has some potential and I can't wait to see what happens, .