Once again, Jaclyn Moriarty has proved that she is smarter than me. It took me about half the book to figure out that one of the secondary characters in this is actually a main character from The Year of Secret Assignments, and then another while to realize another character was from Feeling Sorry for Celia, both of which I read back in '05 or '06.
Bindy is a completely absurd character, but since everyone knew someone like her in high school (I certainly did) you can't help but relate. In a very Emma-like way, she doesn't seem to really have learned much at all at the end, either. At least, not to the point where she's likely to change at all, but you can't help liking her anyway. Once again, Jaclyn Moriarty is probably the only epistolary fiction novelist where I almost never find myself "uh, no one would ever write that," which is great. My only complaint is that once the mystery is solved it always feels like you're being rushed out the door—show's over folks! There's resolution, but no falling action. Just resolution.
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I felt quite sorry for Bindy when she was trying to make friends with the others in the group and also when she was only trying to help. But then, to the others, she might seem too nosey and weird.
However, I enjoyed reading this book. I can't really say that there wasn't a dull moment but at least the story kept going for me. I liked the memos, musings, and so on. It's different from the other books.
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