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Summary: Meg Cabot Outdoes Herself!
Review: Meg Cabot truly outdoes herself in this book! Throughtout "Boy Meets Girl", you follow Kate Mackenzie through her not-so-typical life. You laugh with her, you cry with her, and you get frustrated with her. This book reminded me of All American Girl, but had a completely different story line It was beautifully composed with a series of journal entries, emails, written tape recordings, and instant messenger conversations. This story is truly unique and i would recommend any fans of her work to read it! Boy Meets Girl was an phenominal book!
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Summary: Good book!
Review: Not as good as "The Boy Next Door" (I loved that one!), but still a funny book. I enjoyed that there was more than just emails in this one... however, it did make it more convoluted, I think. Still, can't wait to see what the author does next!
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Summary: Just didn't do it for me
Review: Oddly, the same method Cabot used so effectively in 'The Boy Next Door' falters here. While our hero, Mitch, comes across quite nicely, his interest in our purported heroine, Kate MacKenzie, is implausible at best, and more likely ludicrous. It's not that she's a bad person, but frankly, in the entire book I only remember her doing one decent thing, and that was to help Mitch's sister with a sexual identity crisis, and I'm not even sure she handled that correctly. Look, I'm all for heroines being adorably disorganized, or bad with numbers, or directions, or babies, or whatever, but this girl is a walking disaster, whiney, and just plain unlikeable. And we're supposed to think that our hero falls for her because what - people who are freakishly incompetent are good people and accomplished people are inherently bad? I will buy more of Cabot's books because this is the first bad thing I've read from her, but I'd advise you not to waste money on this one - borrow it or take it out at the library instead.
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Summary: Reader meets romance novel!
Review: Someone sent me this book and it sat on the shelf for several weeks, while I thought, "Not really my kind of book." The cover is deceptive and it would be hard to come up with a more banal or less descriptive title. The cover art bears little relation to the content of the book. If Boy Meets Girl were Meg Cabot's debut novel, it would have sunk into remainder oblivion. Fortunately, Cabot is famous, although I've never read her other books. I have a weakness for books written in correspondence style and enjoy writing that way myself. The book's strength derives from the author's ability to capture the tone of modern-day office correspondence, from the Personnel Director's trailing "This correspondence is confidential..." to heroine Kate's scrawls on a menu. As Boy Meets Girl opens, Kate has just left her boyfriend of ten years, which meant leaving his apartment. Through her old college friend Jen, she has a job in the Human Resource department of a major newspaper and a couch to sleep while she looks for a new apartment. Kate's boss Amy, a WASP alum of the Pi Delta sorority, runs a tight ship, influenced by her boyfriend, Stuart, who just happens to be the company's lawyer. When Ida refuses to serve Stuart a piece of her world-class pie, Stuart demands that Ida be fired -- and Amy orders Kate to do the deed. When Ida's union sues the company, Kate meets Stuart's brother, Mitch, who's got a heart of gold as well as great looks. And when Kate gets fired herself -- for telling the truth in a way that makes her boss looks bad -- Mitch comes riding to the rescue. Cabot's correspondence style creates an omniscient viewpoint, without moving us from one character's mind to the other. I love the email sequence of Jen urging Kate to stay on longer at her apartment; Jen's husband, like so many males in that situation, just wants his couch back. And I enjoyed the dysfunctional family of Stuart and Mitch. Who wouldn't want a sister who dies her hair green and insists her name is Sean? Naturally the characters are somewhat stereotyped, as befitting this type of novel. However, there are delightful inconsistencies. Amy doesn't mind marrying into a family with a lesbian, but she's dismayed that her fiance may be part Jewish. Kate's ex finds a girlfriend who asks Kate for background information. The novel's only flaw didn't bother me till I put the book down and began to write this review. Kate comes across as a strong character who'd be fun to know, but she's quite passive throughout the book. Going through a tough time, she relies on her friends and their hospitality. And she doesn't get herself out of her own mess. We have a hero "white knight" who saves a maiden in distress. I'd like to see Kate save herself. Still, I found myself reading and turning pages. In fact, I wish I'd saved this book for a long boring airplane ride! It's an easy escape, more creative than most.
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Summary: "Boy Meets Girl" meets my standards
Review: The book "Boy Meets Girl" is a wonderful novel chock-full of humor, wit, sarcasm, and romance. These are all trademarks of any book by Meg Cabot. I finished it in two days and I am ready for it's upcoming sequel "Every Boy's Got One".
The book is all written in journal entries, e-mails, online chatting, and even text written on menus and recipts. Hilarious! And if you like humor and romance, and enjoy some fun and even suspense, this is definately a great read. One of Cabot's best!
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Summary: "Boy Meets Girl" meets my standards
Review: The book "Boy Meets Girl" is a wonderful novel chock-full of humor, wit, sarcasm, and romance. These are all trademarks of any book by Meg Cabot. I finished it in two days and I am ready for it's upcoming sequel "Every Boy's Got One".
The book is all written in journal entries, e-mails, online chatting, and even text written on menus and recipts. Hilarious! And if you like humor and romance, and enjoy some fun and even suspense, this is definately a great read. One of Cabot's best!
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Summary: From a teen...
Review: This book is about Kate Mackenzie. Kate moved to New York to make a difference, but working in the human resources department of the New York Journal is as close is she is going to get. Her best friend Jen is also a H.R. worker at the New York Journal and is currently letting Kate sleep on her couch since Dale her rock star boyfriend of 10 years doesn't want to get married. One morning she comes into work to find that Amy Jenkins-fiancé of Stuart Hetzog wants her to fire the most popular employee- the dessert lady Ida Lopez. Which she does only to have Mrs. Lopez file a wrongful termination suit against her.
The bright spot in this mess is that her defendant Mitch Hertzog is a total hottie. Only one problem (ok two) First he is a lawyer, which is the group of people Kate can't stand, also that he is the brother to Stuart-Kate's evil boss' fiancé. Somehow during an interview Kate boss fires her wrongfully. Don't worry though, in classic romance style Mitch rides in and saves the day.
There is a wide range of characters in this book, but they are still very deep. There are characters ranging from the lesbian little sister of Mike to Kate's ex boyfriend who sings songs to her in the middle of her office. We even get to see some characters from the boy next door in this book, and see how far they have come.
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Summary: Laugh Out Loud Fun
Review: This book is so funny- i was reading it in a dental office and i was laughing so loud(my mother works there and she was furious at me and told me to keep it down) but i just kept on howling with laughter- this book took me a day to read because i just loved it so much- i read The Boy Next Door and i noticed that Cabot used some of the characters from that book in this book...like John Trent in that book for instance...might he be related to Stacy and Jason Trent in Boy Meets Girl? i THINK SO! OMG- i am such a freaking BOOK NERD...i actually liked this book better than Boy Next Door....i thought it was funnier than that one....but then again, i love all of Meg's books...she can do no wrong with me...since i have read every single one of her books. But i admit- she could describe the hotness of Mitch in Boy Meets Girl alittle more- i mean come ON-i need to dream up a man since i can't have one in real life- i might as well do it with Meg Cabot's description under my bra than without nothing at all. READ THIS BOOK IT KICKS BUTT!
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Summary: Best book ever!
Review: This bookz da best! i reli like tiz book i couldn't put it down! i reli like how da author [Meg Cabot] wrote it usin e-mailz, voice mailz n stuff like tat! u should get tiz book! Meg Cabot became mah favourite author after i read tiz!
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Summary: Light, fluffy and utterly enjoyable
Review: This is not great literature, but it's fun and silly and made me laugh out loud. Sometimes that's as much as I ask from a book, and that's all I was looking for in "Boy Meets Girl."
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