Gaby - Bits

by Madeline Bell

With the family moving to Germany things for young Bond get a bit interesting. Bits is a collection of short vignettes covering the first few months of the Bonds time in Germany - does Gaby make an appearance? you better believe it!Since the First Edition hit the presses back in 2008 a further twenty volumes of Gaby have seen the light of day along with countless shorts and fanfics based around our hapless hero and his/her friends.As the plot has developed, one or two inconsistences have crept in or been brought to light which hopefully have been corrected in this volume. This has meant a few passages have been changed, a name here, syntax there along with a host of missing punctuation and grammatical errors which escaped the First Edition editing. Of course, all the original ilustration is included.This volume is written in two languages, English and German and whilst I had thought of doing all the German conversation in that language it was hardly practical! A compromise was needed so you will find some passages in German, generally where interaction with non-core characters occurs. However a large amount of conversation takes place in German so to denote this you will find those interactions in a lighter type face. I hope you enjoy reading this and look forward to seeing you all in volume 6!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.

334 pages, Paperback

First published March 5, 2014

Reviews

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book starts off with Drew in the hospital, having been injured in a bike crash. Will be held over night.

Put in a ward with three girls.

He wins his first race in Germany and gets enrolled in school. He knows enough German to get by. As usual, most of the students think he is a girl. As usual, in one way or another he gets maneuvered into wearing girl's clothes.

There's also a very shocking section where Drew has died. This includes the obit and other material. The question is:is Drew really dead? Another good story in the series.

[Jennifer Reaves · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am enjoying the story up to now. The other books have been fun to read. The only problem I have with this book the the way it is set up the format was not executed well at all. The story is not linear as the rest of the books have been. Some book can pull it off but this one is a jumbled mess... There are several missing plot points as well. The trick is to trudge through the book so you can you can get to the next book! I hope in the future it is maybe re-edited to fix the issues.

[Mike145 · Rating 4 out of 5]

*** Minor Spoilers ***

This isn't a real book in the sense the others are, this is more a collection of shorts. While most of them are very good, some of them are a bit choppy, there's little continuity and a couple of them end with a cliffhanger situation that's never resolved in this, or subsequent, book.

[Scott Shjefte · Rating 3 out of 5]

hapters were out of order, some of the story seems to be missing. Read on line.

[Anne Mouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't give this more than three stars because, as the title indicates, it was made up of bits rather than a straight narrative. This means the story thread you were reading would simply end. Although the broad story was there it kept on cheating you at the final moment.