Every Boy's Got One

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Summary: What does every boy have? You'll have to read to find out.
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This is just a cute story. I couldn't put it down. As is typical in a Meg Cabot story the whole thing takes place via, email, text messaging, pda journals, travel journals, website blogs etc, no direct conversations are actually had between any of the characters.

Holly and Mark want to elope in Italy because their families are against their union, he's jewish she's catholic, so they bring their 2 best friends Jane and Cal to Italy to be their best man and maid of honor. This is the story of trying to get Holly and Mark to the altar. Cal's anti-marriage, and Jane just believes these 2 are meant to be, so what happens when the maid of honor and best man have to try to get along in order to make the wedding happen.


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Summary: Every Boy's Got One- One of Meg's best books
Review: Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot (by the way, the "one" is a heart. No, it really is!) is her most nonfiction book to date. Using her own marriage elopement to Italy as a basis for this excellent novel, she weaves a tale of mutual hatred that soon turns toward romance- something neither character expected to happen.

Jane Harris is a cartoonist for the fictional New York Journal and Cal Langdon is a very well-traveled writer who has now come back to New York to settle down, if only for a bit, getting a job at the same paper that Jane works at. Both are friends of the bride and groom, respectively. From the start, Jane and Cal (who are the maid of honor and best man, respectively) harbor a mutual hatred towards the other because of their extreme differing opinions. One such example is Cal's dislike for the idea of marriage, even towards his best friend (who he's known since childhood) who is about to get married; Jane couldn't be happier for the couple and doesn't see how Cal could be so bitter and anti-marriage when, clearly, this couple belongs together.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, reading it this past Saturday when my room had no internet (Stupid college...). So, I decided to read this book that I spent forever to get, due to the fact that certain bookstores didn't have the book right when they opened on the release date (Stupid bookstores). But it was all worth it. I really liked the way that Meg used emails and journal entries instead of the usual novel paragraphs that most writers use. Also, at the end, Avon (the publishing company) included a little essay Meg wrote specifically for this book on what inspired her to write it, which was her own elopement to Italy when she got married and she talked about the fabrications and non fabrications she made in writing this book. It was very interesting and I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read.

Unlike some other reviewers who felt that this book was not "up to par" with Meg's other books, I thought this book was one of Meg's best that she's ever written.

One reviewer said that Meg prolly didnt spend much time on this book and made it just to get more money, which is so not true. Since this book is based on Meg's own elopement to Italy, you're probably right, she probably didnt spend much time on this book because it's based on her own experiences. She wrote that this book was almost entirely autobiographical. When a book is like that, it doesnt take long to write. Also, Meg normally doesnt spend a whole year or whatever writing a book. It takes her like a month (but longer to develop the idea).

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Summary: Sigh.....
Review: I loved Boy meets girl,and the boy nexy door.But i think this book is totally on my Sucky List of chick lit number 2!Althogh it's still a page turner but the romance betwee Cal and Jane isn't as touching as the ones that Meg Cabot's previous books and tons of places are really cheezy.
It kind of give me the feeling that Mrs.Cabot wrote this book just to dig money.You can feel that with her talent, she didn't even spend over a week or so getting the idea and writing it into a book.

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Summary: Every Boy's Got One
Review: Jane is one of the few people who is genuinely thrilled for her best friend to be eloping to Italy. As a unique gift, she plans on giving them a travelouge of their wedding trip that turns into her personal diary. When she first meets the best man, Cal, she does not know who he is, and vice versa, however, it is antipathy at first sight. For his part, Cal thinks the whole concept of marriage is outmoded and shoved down the throats of men by women who have Barbie doll wedding dreams. Yet, despite their obvious differences, Cal and Jane keep getting thrown together, even when they refuse to speak to each other except through e-messages. Mishap upon mishap, short fuses, blown fuses, and food poisoning bedevils the two couples on the journey to copacetic endings.

*** With the quirky perspective and ingenuity that has endeared her Princess books to millions of variously young readers, Ms. Cabot charms her audience. Frankly honest, this chronicle of a rocky romance is believeable and sweet. ***

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Summary: A light-hearted read and as good as her previous novels...
Review: Meg Cabot's one of my favorite chick-lit authors. As usual, her new book "Every Boy's Got One" is hilariously funny and had me bursting out laughing as I was reading it in the comfort of my bedroom.

A man and woman who couldn't stand each other at first sight had to endure each other's presence for their best friend's sake for over a week and at the end of everything, found themselves falling in love with each other.

Although, I won't say that the hate-at-first-sight-turned-love-eventually plot was unique and this novel's style falls pretty much along the same line as Cabot's previous novels of email-memo-diary-conversation-turned-novel, I am still as captivated by her characters as ever. Definitely worth the read on a relaxing weekend night!

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Summary: Interesting, delicious
Review: The story plot isn't actually mind blowing, but it is intersting. Characters are believable, and the romance parts aren't disgustingly unbearable as other types of romance novels. I love the way she uses e-mails, diary entries, journals etc to show how characters feel and what they actually say to each other, but I don't find the other extras really useful at all, like the menues and receipts in Italian( as i can't read Italian). The ending was a happy one, but I wish Meg Cabot could have written more about it, as it wasn't really that satifying to me.

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Summary: Fun fast paced story!
Review: This story is written as a travel journal, PDA files and email accounts. It is the story of Jane Harris who is Cartoonist who is traveling with her best friend, Holly to Italy for Holly's elopement. Things get a bit stressful for Jane when she discovers that to her astonishment the Best Man Cal Langdon is against marriage and doesn't think Holly and Mark should get married. Not only does she think that Cal is boring, the man wrote a book about Saudi Arabia, but he has never heard of Jane's creation Wondercat. Equally Cal thinks Jane is a psychotic airhead, and what is with the cat thing. But, as time progresses and Holly and Mark encounter bureaucracy and bad shellfish Cal starts to change his mind. When it is up to Jane and Cal to fix the happy couples wedding it brings them closer together. The book is also interspersed with emails from the couple's family, who are trying to keep Holly and Mark apart.

Meg Cabot is the queen of this genre. He stories are fun and fast paced. I love the fact that everyone is using their Blackberrys to email from the front to back seat of the car! Can't wait for the next one.


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Summary: Fun, but not as stellar as previous Cabot chick books
Review: This story of 'hate at first sight' between the best man and the maid of honor at an elopement-wedding in Italy was a fun, sparkly chick read. I loved the Italian setting and the many comic observations of Italian life by the heroine, Jane, who is making her first trip abroad. However, this book isn't quite up to par with Ms. Cabot's previous romantic comedies, especially the fabulous The Boy Next Door. I found the constant e-messaging and journaling not at all realistic, especially in such detail. But more importantly for me, I just felt the two main characters were too inherently different and incompatible to be true loves. I liked them both (though Jane was quite annoying at times) but, sexual chemistry aside, they just don't seem to belong together.

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Summary: Not as good as her previous novels
Review: This was just ok for me. I liked The Boy Next Door and Boy Meets Girl much better. Still it was a mindless, quick read which is what I was looking for.

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Summary: Cute with nice laugh-out-loud moments
Review: With her best friend eloping to Italy, Jane Harris goes along as witness and maid of honor. Mark and Holly are crazy about each other and Italy looks like a great time, but there is one dark cloud. Cal Langdon, best-selling non-fiction author (with a recent book about Saudi Arabia running out of oil) is along as best man. Cal doesn't believe in love and thinks Mark and Holly are making a mistake, and seems to go for model-types. He also rather obviously looks down on Jane--with her multi-bottle water habit, her obsession with Britney Spears, and her cat tattoo. Clearly Cal is trouble--although even Jane can't deny he's a bit of a hunk.

Getting Mark and Holly married isn't as easy as it seems. The Italians, it seems, have rules about Americans--and when Mark and Holly get sick on raw oysters, it's up to Cal and Jane to save the day. But spending time together is dangerous. Jane knows she's ready for commitment, for the real thing--but resisting Cal's sexy body and blue eyes isn't as easy as it should be--especially when it turns out that he might have a heart after all.

Author Meg Cabot tells a fast-paced story using the device of a trip journal and a series of e-mails. Especially humorous are the e-mails emerging from family left behind in America. Jane's accident-prone father seems always on the verge of killing himself. Holly's mother obsesses over the fact that Mark is Jewish--and clearly not right. Mark's mother is equally certain that Mark should find a nice Jewish girl. And Holly's brother manages to stir things up with a planned gay marriage ceremony.

EVERY BOY'S GOT ONE is the kind of book that almost makes you sit down and keep reading. Cabot's breezy style brings the reader in, it certainly kept me laughing.