Rate this book

Always Mackenzie (2008)

by Kate Constable(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Allen & Unwin

series

Girlfriend Fiction

review 1: I claim to be a reader who is somewhat discerning, and yet you could, perhaps, apply the "I will read anything," tag to me if you complete the phrase "if it has lesbian (or bi girl) content." That said, this book is NOT GOOD. Constable sets up her characters for romance as though setting up a chessboard, and then waits and waits to make her move. I raced through to the last page only to be sure that our protagonist gets the girl (the girl, I might add, that I was never sure she particularly wanted). She does, and it's terrifically unsatisfying.
review 2: Despite Kate Constable being one of my favourite authors, I wasn't going to read this until I discovered that the "friendship" between the two girls is actually a romance. Then I, uh, rushed to the book shop. A... morend I'm glad I did -- in theory, this book is everything I've been looking for for the last, ooh, six years. But I can't help wishing there was more to it, that the focus had been the romance rather than the friendship, but I suppose there were certain guidelines KC had to follow; considering how the blurb reads, the book's pretty squarely aimed at the general teen girl market and the story reflects that. less

Download links for: Always Mackenzie

Advertising