Audiobook Review: Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers

I got this audiobook for free in the included two free original titles when you subscribe to Audible. Every month I am given choices and sometimes (or is it every time?) I get offered kid audiobooks. Since I have two kids, ages 10 and 12, I always think we could listen to them during our long trips or something. So far, I have selected 3 or 4.

This one, Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers was the first one I got and the first one we began listening to on one of our road trips.

I thought it would be my 12-year-old who would be into it, but mostly it was my ten-year-old son. He was instantly drawn to the story and loved it.

The characters are a bit exaggerated, as are the situations. And of course, the kids are the geniuses and the adults wouldn’t survive without them.

There are several things going on in this story, with Riley Mack being the leader of the group that frequently goes undercover to solve a crime. A bit like a junior Mission Impossible.

It doesn’t matter how unreal the story is, what matters is that there are jokes and kids pretending to be someone else and wearing disguises, and then an adult antagonist in a position of power. 

We had a lot of fun listening to it, even if we finished it twenty minutes at a time after we came back from our trip. We used every short commute to the basketball practice or doctor’s appointment.

It was fun. I recommended. Especially for tween boys.

Cheers!