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Gaby - Express: Book 20
Its a busy few weeks for Gaby, racing trips to Yorkshire, making out with her boyfriend, a visit from Bernie and a developing taste and talent for the slightly underground music scene - well that's just the start! So delve inside for more shenanigans from Fraulein Bond and her band of merry friends! This is Book 20 in the Gaby saga. Since the Saga started, over three years have passed, the family have moved to Germany and the boy has become a young woman. How? Well you’ll need to start at Book 1 for the whole tale but if you just want to get to the action, turn the page, Book 20 awaits you!
With more twists, turns, teenagers and tantrums than you can imagine you’ll soon be hooked and heading to Book 1 to find out what you’ve been missing!
At the end of this volume you’ll find a fairly complete character listing – I hope it will be useful as there will be references to some of them in this volume.
It was never the intention to rewrite the volume and you’ll find the general flow unchanged. However I hope that this Second Edition is a smoother read and that you’ll enjoy this re-edited version.
I hope you enjoy this interlude and look forward to seeing you in Summer Loving, the 21st book in this series.
With more twists, turns, teenagers and tantrums than you can imagine you’ll soon be hooked and heading to Book 1 to find out what you’ve been missing!
At the end of this volume you’ll find a fairly complete character listing – I hope it will be useful as there will be references to some of them in this volume.
It was never the intention to rewrite the volume and you’ll find the general flow unchanged. However I hope that this Second Edition is a smoother read and that you’ll enjoy this re-edited version.
I hope you enjoy this interlude and look forward to seeing you in Summer Loving, the 21st book in this series.
299 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 13, 2017
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September 23, 2017
if not for one scene (discussed below), I would have given this book 5 stars. I liked it every bit as much as the others in the series. It could use a bit of formatting help but it's not distracting. Much like the previous books, Gaby continues to get herself into (mostly) amusing but embarfassing and uncomfortable situations.
*** major spoiler ***
There's one scene in this book that just struck me the wrong way. I don't like it and even though Gaby's friends and sister have continually manipulated, coerced and sometimes bullied her into doing things that she really doesn't want to do, Jules puts her into one that just goes too far.
Jules knows Gaby will drink if given the chance, can't handle her alcohol and tends to drink too much once she's started. She also knows that when Gaby drinks, she's a lot more easily talked into things she wouldn't normally do and she doesn't always remember what happens. She's been drunk around Max enough that he also knows all this.
In spite of this, Jules invites Gabs and Max to Bonn to a bar to see a band Gaby likes and says they can spend the night at her and Boris' apartment. As expected, Gaby gets drunk and wakes up the next morning in just her underwear and in bed next to (what appears to be) a naked Max. She doesn't remember leaving the bar much less getting undressed, into bed or anything else that might have happened. In some places (like where I live), if they actually did have sex, Max could be charged with date rape and Jules as an accessory/accomplice since she set it all up in spite of knowing how Gaby was.
I know the series is pretty much about Gaby's friends, racing teammates and sister manipulating, coercing or outright bullying Gaby into embarrassing and comfortable things she doesn't want to do but this just goes too far. I still plan to read the next book in the series but more to find out the consequences of this one scene and less because I'm looking forward to Gaby's next escapades.
*** major spoiler ***
There's one scene in this book that just struck me the wrong way. I don't like it and even though Gaby's friends and sister have continually manipulated, coerced and sometimes bullied her into doing things that she really doesn't want to do, Jules puts her into one that just goes too far.
Jules knows Gaby will drink if given the chance, can't handle her alcohol and tends to drink too much once she's started. She also knows that when Gaby drinks, she's a lot more easily talked into things she wouldn't normally do and she doesn't always remember what happens. She's been drunk around Max enough that he also knows all this.
In spite of this, Jules invites Gabs and Max to Bonn to a bar to see a band Gaby likes and says they can spend the night at her and Boris' apartment. As expected, Gaby gets drunk and wakes up the next morning in just her underwear and in bed next to (what appears to be) a naked Max. She doesn't remember leaving the bar much less getting undressed, into bed or anything else that might have happened. In some places (like where I live), if they actually did have sex, Max could be charged with date rape and Jules as an accessory/accomplice since she set it all up in spite of knowing how Gaby was.
I know the series is pretty much about Gaby's friends, racing teammates and sister manipulating, coercing or outright bullying Gaby into embarrassing and comfortable things she doesn't want to do but this just goes too far. I still plan to read the next book in the series but more to find out the consequences of this one scene and less because I'm looking forward to Gaby's next escapades.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 23, 2017
This is the 20th book in the Gaby series. It starts off with Gaby going to a con dressed as Momoko from Kamikaze Girls. There's more race wins for Gaby, a visit to a place that is a museum for the types of minature cars Gaby likes, a visit from Bernie and Andrea, the revelation that one of her friends is a lesbian, more work at their food stall, an example of girls being banned from a bike race and even more. It's quite an active story.
July 5, 2017
Cliffhanger!
In a series now 20+ books long the use of cliffhangers is not really needed, if you haven't already hooked your readers then a cliffhanger isn't going to do it!
Worse this author use cliffhangers like a blugeon, several times now they've ended us as dream sequence... or similar. :-(
In a series now 20+ books long the use of cliffhangers is not really needed, if you haven't already hooked your readers then a cliffhanger isn't going to do it!
Worse this author use cliffhangers like a blugeon, several times now they've ended us as dream sequence... or similar. :-(
June 25, 2017
She's a busy girl
Life doesn't get any slower for Gaby. Still plenty of cycle racing, work. And a busy social life for our teenage sensation.
Life doesn't get any slower for Gaby. Still plenty of cycle racing, work. And a busy social life for our teenage sensation.
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