A review by _lost_in_wonderland_
Becoming Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty

5.0

This book is amazing, I was given it by a friend to borrow and genuinely wasn't expecting it to hook me like it did (ended up reading it in about two days). I was stook on whether to give it four or five stars, ended up stuck on four just because a five-star book has to be life-altering, I feel like, but I'm itching for a sequel, or just to read more books by the author. The characters are all so well thought out, and the way that Bindy, the protagonist, assumes she knows the people around her so well and ends up so completely wrong kind of reminded me of the 'subversion of the manic-pixie-dream-girl-trope' thing that John Green almost/kind of did in Paper Towns (I barely remember that book, I only know that's what he was trying to do with the ending because of Wikipedia). Bindy reminded me of people I knew, and she reminded me of myself and that was really cool, and it felt like this is truly an author that actually understands what going through school and being a teenager is like, unlike thousands of other books I've read with the same theme and story. What shocked me the most was how quickly the genre almost changed, because I was expecting this to be a coming-of-age, simple story about friendship and getting through school, etc, which is definitely a huge part of the book, but I definitely wasn't expecting it to turn into a murder-plot or mystery towards the end - that was great. Edit; nvm maybe I'll give it five stars, the book deserves it