Queen of Babble in the Big City

Author: Meg Cabot

Summary: Small town twenty-something obsessed with a new relationship,
marriage, employment and gossip fumbles her way through life in the big city. Slowing down her passion for marriage and finding her niche in the retro fashion world and staying connected to her best friend is not easy for the heroine.

Recommendation: No. I am usually fond of Meg Cabot and her quirky novels. This novel feels like Meg is trying to make her characters grow up and the only way she found to do it is to litter her book with profanity and sex. The story line is too cutesy for the sophisticated" undertones thrown into this story.

Hearts: 1

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Summary: Lizzie Nichols has survived the summer and is returning to New York to live. After her summer in France, she is moving in with her "summer fling" Jean Luc, who lives in his family's extravagant apartment in the Big Apple. It is only temporary, Lizzie plans to move into an apartment she'll share with Shari, her best friend, once it's ready. Of course, if Luc decides that he can't bare to live without her (and shake off his commitment phobias)after a few weeks of domestic bliss, all the better. So much for carefully crafted plans. Not only does Lizzie manage to open her mouth when she shouldn't, she is beginning to notice cracks in her plan to ensure Luc falls for her ...hard. Even with her housing secured, she has to find a job. Her almost degree in Fashion History isn't much help so she snags a job as a receptionist for her friend Chaz's father's law firm to help pay her bills. That job leaves her afternoons free for Madame and Monsieur Henri and their small (exclusive) bridal gown restoration business. The job she has taken for no pay. One day at the law firm she comes to the aid of Jill Higgins, an unlikely society bride and soon the two worlds she has tried to keep apart collide. And in all this, she cannot decide if Luc falling for the real her or the her that tries to be and act as she thinks Luc wants her to act? Is she really cut out to be a part of society?

Recommendation: This is a recommend book, I love this series. Once again Meg Cabot launches her readers on a whirlwind romp with Lizzie Nichols...and the results of her good intentions. Cabot endows her characters with such a sense of humor and throws in some unexpected twists and turns that readers are carried through to the very end.

Hearts: 4

July 26, 2008 1:06 PM

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