The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie

At first I found the book very dull. Determined to get through it I cranked up the speed to 1.5 and it transformed the book! Suddenly, Bindi's awkwardness became funny, instead of tedious and the narrative ripped along. I feel like this was the authors intention, and it's more in line with the other audiobooks in the series! If you've read them, get this one, but crank up the speed. You'll have a great time.

I didn't think she could do it - make me love Bindy, that is. But she did. It's a testament to her ability as an author in the way that she takes a very minor character - one created for comic relief and for the convenience of transcripts in the format she's chosen - and turn her into a three-dimensi......more

4.5 stars As Bindy would say, I devoured this book. It's long, but I actually ripped through it. And I loved it. I want to give this book to the people who treat YA as some kind of bastard genre -- I've been wrestling with On The Road for weeks. I zipped through this in one night. Jaclyn Moriarty - yo......more

Alas, this book was not so good. I adored "Feeling Sorry For Celia" and positively devoured "The Year of Secret Assignments", but this one really let me down. The narrative is overly complex and totally jumbled - I didn't figure out the (over the top and unbelievable) point until I was nearly done.......more