The Boy Next Door

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Summary: Pieces of email will tell you a lot!
Review: This book tells you a story differently by using pieces of email sending by one character to another. The idea is innovative and quite brilliant.
Melissa Fuller, a page ten columnist in The New York Journal has to take care of her neighbor, Mrs. Friedlander who has been attacked by a stranger. While Mrs. Friedlander is in hospital for being in coma, Melissa tries to find her neighbor's relative who supposed to be in charge of Mrs. Friedlander's apartment and pets. Then a man comes and claims himself as Max Friedlander, Mrs. Friedlander's nephew. They get to know each other amusingly after he moves to his aunt's apartment. But one thing she does not know is that he is actually a fake nephew. He is Max's friend, John Trent , who has been asked by Max to pretend to be him because John has owed him to do some favors. Melissa and John undoubtingly becomes fall in love. When the secret uncovered Melissa is very dissapointed and feels deceived by him. Finally John tries hard to regain her trust and you will find out who is the attacker of Mrs. Friedlander.
It's entertaining, funny, and fast to read.

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Summary: A Surprisingly Compulsive Read
Review: This book exceeds my expectations. It's hilarious and truly fast-paced, made even more so by its e-mail format. What I love most about the book, though, is how Meg Cabot succeeds in creating highly likeable characters, including the dumb supermodel Vivica and the formidable matriarch Mim, even the office bimbo Dolly Vargas. By the end of the book, you've fallen in love with every single one of them, including the array of quirky officemates, who giddily chip in every once in a while to gossip about the heroine. Thoroughly fun and more than enjoyable--read it!

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Summary: Surprisingly Entertaining
Review: I picked this book up several times but decided to put it back once I opened it and found that it is in an e-mail format. However, once I did read it, it was surprisingly entertaining and I had to laugh out loud several time. A must read for all those chick lit lovers out there!!!!!!

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Summary: Comedy in e-mails
Review: This very funny comedy/romance/thriller is written entirely in e-mails. the heroine, Mel, saves her elderly neighbour who has been assaulted, and finds herself stuck with the old lady's enormous Great Dane, Paco. This sets off a train of complications in her life, leading to her getting involved with a man who is pretending to be her neighbour's nephew. The e-mails get funnier and funnier in the course of the book, particularly hilarious are the increasingly sarcastic ones to Mel from her exasperated boss, as she spends less and less time at the office while her personal life grows more complex. Mel's parents seem excessively prim and innocent for people who can't be, I might as well face it, much older than me, but maybe in America people in their fifties are like that. Whatever were they doing in the 60s, i wonder? As a great fan of the Princess Diaries, I wondered if Meg Cabot would be as funny writing for adults, but she is.

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Summary: The Guy Next Door
Review: The Guy Next Door is an extremely successful romance novel by Meg Cabot, the author of "The Princess Diaries".
The book is based around bubbly New York City girl, Mel Fuller who works as a ten-page gossip columnist for the New York Journal. After helping her neighbour from a violent intruder, she has gained Paco, a Great Dane. Not exactly what she wants.
She seeks help from Max Friedlander, who is her neighbours nephew and only relative. However, Max sends his friend John Trent to pose as him. This is meant to solve all problems, but this only creates more!
I think Meg Cabot has written this in a very funny way and the use of e-mails allows us to really see the thoughts of the very unique characters. I think the contrast of characters is a very good technique because it allows you to see situations from different people's points of view. For example, we have Dolly Vargas, a typical City girl, who loves gossip and scandal. Then there is Nadine who is really caring and a bit of a worrier.
This book kept me gripped from the very beginning to the end. The mixture of loveable characters and the humorous plot makes this one of best romance novels I have ever read.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: A friend recommended this book to me. When I first started reading it I thought it was rather weird - as the entire book consists only of e-mails back and forth between characters. I was soon hooked, however, and absolutely loved the book. A quick, easy, light read that I would highly recommend.

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Summary: fun book
Review: This is a fun and charming book. It is composed entirely of e-mails sent to and from the characters in the book, which is an unusual way to tell the story, but it works. Though not a short book, it's still a pretty quick read. Good airplane or beach reading.

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Summary: highly entertaining
Review: I thought this book was highly entertaining. I really enjoyed it. I'd read 2 of the Princess Diaries books and thought if I liked those, I'd like a more adult Meg Cabbot book. I was right! She did a really good job of telling a complete story using emails even when you'd think some things would be missing! A really good vacation book!

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Summary: Like a good chocolate mousse
Review: Highest entertainment value for chic lit. Almost so light and fluffy, you should read something heavy first so you really appreciate it. Good stuff and fun.

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Summary: I didn't want to but I loved this book
Review: It's so predictable, but you still can't stop reading it. Definitely, pick this one up!