This is on the Florida Teens Read list for the 2011-12 school year.
Bug doesn’t have much in this world, but she does have a classic Cadillac handed down to her by her grandfather after his death. The story opens with Bug having to take her car in for a wash, due to what she thinks is egg splattered all over it. When a demonic repo agent, Beals, appears to inform her that unless she can produce her late grandfather, her soul will be taken to Hell in his place, Bug doesn’t believe him. Can she outsmart the devil?
There were a lot of mistakes in this book. The ones that bothered me the most were things like Bug telling us that her mother taught her to speak Spanish, yet she spends the whole book saying that she doesn’t. Her speech patterns are inconsistent and distracting (one sentence she’s speaking perfect English, the next she’s not), and based on the cute pictures on the front cover, I didn’t expect so much graphic grossness with the demons. Also, since she lived with her aunt who was a church-going lady, I thought it was incredibly dense of Bug to not think of looking to the church for help when she’s up against a real demon. The ending was unclear, and even Pesto, the love interest, is too good to be true so the romance felt unrealistic to me. While I normally love wacky, genre-bending books, I wouldn’t have even finished this one if it wasn’t on the FTR list. A 1 from me, my lowest score ever.
Read-A-Likes (but better): Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins, The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan, Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore, Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri
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