Meg Cabot - Boy Next Door

Pros: quirky and fun

Cons: drags at times

The Bottom Line: It feels like you're getting to read all the juicy emails and all the gossip in these people's lives

Review: I have been a fan of Megan Cabot since I read her The Princess Diaries. I like her quirky style and sense of humor. Thus when while browsing at my local Border's...

Pros: The email format works surprisingly well, great characters, good plot.

Cons: Ending had a tad bit to be desired.

The Bottom Line: Read it, read it, read it!!

Review: It was a boring Thursday afternoon, I was all alone in the office, and I was thinking about what I would read that night (yes, this is the big thrill of my days, lately). My mind wandered to the huge stack of books I had waiting for me, one of them...

Pros: Unusual format and interesting characters

Cons: Story tends to drag at times

The Bottom Line: The Boy Next Door offers something for everyone- humor, mystery, romance, salicious gossip and more!

Review: I have been a big fan of Patricia Cabot since I read her historical romance Educating Caroline a year ago. Since then, I have read all of her historical romances. While I have mixed feelings about her earlier novels, her last three are very good...

Pros: Fun, fast and fluffy

Cons: The format itself means the ending is a bit of a let-down.

The Bottom Line: I highly recommend this one. It's simply delightful and the format adds a nifty twist!

Review: So I'm getting ready to fly down to Florida for a few days to visit a friend and mention to another friend that I need something to read. "Oh, you have to borrow this book!" she says, thrusting The Boy Next Door into my hands. I peruse the...

Pros: A fun, light read, definitely different than most books

Cons: A few unrealistic details, a tad predictable

The Bottom Line: I would definitely recommend this book because it's fresh and different than the majority of the chick lit books out there.

Review: If you were to pick up The Boy Next Door and flip through it, you would immediately see that this is not your typical book. Straying from the norm, Meg Cabot has written the entire book in the form of emails. When I first heard about...

Pros: It was a mixture of romance, mystery, crime and humor. I couldn't stop reading.

Cons: It lagged a little at times, but picked the pace right back up. Thats it!

Review: I am a big fan of most of the books written by Meg Cabot, and liked this one in particular. It was an interesting way to write a book though- completely in e-mail? I thought that it would be hard to get the whole view on what was going on from a...