Review: Half of an intriguing story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2013
For .99 I would give Parts and Wreck an OK rating and would recommend with reservations.I found the setting and story line to be intriguing.  Demon can be transferred from person to person via organ transplants.  When the Parts Dept. finds out a demon possessed organ has been transplanted, they spring into action and get the organ back (sometimes to the transplantee's demise, but the Parts Dept. thinks dead is preferable to possessed).  All of the characters, both main and secondary are quirky.  While the Netgalley copy I received had poor formatting and many typos/word errors  (piece for peace), I can't say if that would be an issue in the final version available here.  The story also seems to skip ahead without filling in what happens from point A to point C.  The training video Luce watches is a hoot.What I didn't like was that we received minimal background information on our main characters Wade and Luce.  They don't actually even talk to each other much before the big climax.  When you are a trainee, when has your trainer not actually told you what you were supposed to do and lay out the plan of attack?  The parts that I believe others thought were funny fell flat for me because of the lack of connection between the characters and the lack of context a back story would have provided.  What new employee would ask her supervisor if he was stopping at a rest stop to pee or get a BJ in the bushes?!? Really??? All we know about Luce (short of Lucid) is that she has been diagnosed with psychological problems, and has an imaginary/invisible friend and ate cornstarch.  How does this translate into this inappropriate banter which doesn't occur with others?This book is only half of one.  It has potential but needs to be fleshed out and made more complete by expanding our knowledge of the characters and providing a more complete, direct story line from beginning to end.