Monday, December 22, 2008

Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot

First I have to say that I adore Meg Cabot so I might be biased. This book is quite charming and reads thru a series of emails, journal writting and text messages, which makes for a fun, super fast read. Cabot uses experiences from her own, Italian wedding making this novel a bit more personal and realistic. There are a bit of mistakes in the use of Italian language but... it doesn't take away from the book. 

Grade: B


Synopsis When cartoonist Jane Harris’s best friend Holly, New York Journal art director, announces that she’s eloping to Italy with longtime doctor boyfriend Mark, and asks Jane to come along as her witness, Jane jumps at the chance, delighted by the prospect of her first ever trip to Europe. What Jane doesn’t gamble on is Mark’s witness, New York Journal foreign affairs correspondent Cal Langdon. It’s hate at first sight for Jane and Cal, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one another for a week —not even in the beautiful and picturesque Le Marche countryside.
But when Holly and Mark’s wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order to get their best friends on the road to wedded bliss, and end up on a road themselves —one neither of them ever expected....

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