chelseareads's Reviews (449)

Meg Cabot has a knack for engaging books with silly yet endearing protagonists, and this book is no different. Though it is terribly predictable, it is a quick and enjoyable read. Like the other books in the Boy series, the story is told through a series of emails, journal entries, receipts, airline tickets, telegrams, and scraps of paper. This allows the reader to hear a description of events from multiple perspectives, which is a fun change from the more typical writing styles and makes for an interesting read.

The stories in Meg Cabot's Boy series are told through a series of emails, journal entries, and other various scraps. This allows the reader to view events through various perspectives, which is particularly helpful in this book, because the deuteragonist is keeping a secret from the protagonist. Though I usually really enjoy reading Cabot's work, despite the predictable and typically obvious plot-lines, this book was less enjoyable. It read like any other disaster chick-lit book: boy agrees to keep someone's secret, boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, secret stands in the way, girl finds out secret, girl hates boy, boy does something amazing, girl loves boy. The ending also felt a little hasty and contrived.

Despite the graphic and sometimes disturbing nature of his stories, they also never fail to make me smile or even laugh. The only issues I have with his books are that, first of all, the "good guys" are often not very likable, which is the case with Amy Redwood, the protagonist. The second issue is a bit more serious; he tends to over-magic things. At the end of this book, for example, the two protagonists are killed. But then a dog lays on top of them and everything's back to better than normal.