Airhead

After quite a bit of "It's stupid." "It's not." "It's stupid." "It's not." from Intu there, she finally convinced me to read Airhead, a book by someone we've all heard about, Meg Cabot. This book is getting a tad more hype than necessary, with the sequel that used to be on the top 10 list. I love the way that Meg Cabot writes her stories about normal teenage girls, but manages to put in a minuscule amount of unique modern fantasy or fairy tale aspects to make it go just a bit beyond average chick lit. In this case, it's not princesses or spirit mediators, but supermodels and brain transplants. The writing is subtly sarcastic (just how I like it), and there are cliffhangers at every chapter to keep you reading more. However, some parts of the story felt like they were skipped, and I felt that the writing got a little rushed and under-done during the middle. All in all, it's a fair representation of a total newbie supermodel.

Life in Tribeca Alternative High School has Emerson Watts labeled computer geek and resident freak. And to make it worse, her little sister is turning into "popular material", and demands to see Nikki Howard, teenage supermodel, at the grand opening of the new mall (all the cool girls want to). That is, until a protester's paintball gun screws up a plasma TV. Mayhem ensues as the huge screen crashes down to the ground...right where Em is standing. Once the chaos is over, police find Em's body among the rubble. Then, right afterwards, the tabloids are eating up a new story about Nikki Howard's case of amnesia. Could these events be connected? Of course not. And Em is definitely dead.
Right?

Related links:
• Author's site