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THE PATH OF TRUE LOVE SELDOM RUNS SMOOTH, 12 July 2008
This review is from: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Hardcover)
Meg Cabot, popular author of The Princess Diaries series has crafted a featherweight plot filled with funny, finely drawn characters - suspend belief in rational thought and enjoy, which you surely will.
Lizzie Nichols has hit the big time in the Big Apple. After Vogue's editor called her restoration of an ancestral wedding gown "cunning,"and that comment appeared on Page Six the phone at Chez Henri has been ringing incessantly. Everybody who is anybody wants Lizzie to do her wedding gown.
Regrettably in the midst of this Henri, yes, the Henri immediately following Chez has a heart attack and it's left to Lizzie to take charge. Taking charge isn't such an easy task when one of your clients is Ava Geck, wealthy daughter of the owner of the Walmart-like stores whose motto is "Get It At Geck's." Ava is one of the funniest characters to ever grace pages. "Grace" is not the word to describe Ava - she's a gum chewing gal who is often seen "on the red carpels of movies in which she is not starring, since she has no actual talent." While her dad is worth billions Ava has a personal worth of more than $300,000,000, and she's engaged to marry a Greek prince. She's currently in NY to do a guest shot on Celebrity Pit Fight, and she wants Lizzie to do her gown. Being involved with Ava sets the stage for a series of laugh out loud scenes.
While Lizzie is a whiz in business her romantic life is currently on a fast road to chaos. She is also engaged to a prince, Jean-Luc, aka Luke. It would seem to be what a girl from Ann Arbor Michigan has always dreamed of - her own Prince Charming ready to take her away to France where she will live at Chateau Mirac. Problem is Luke's best friend is Chaz with whom Lizzie has recently shared a bed (only that), and he's the one who makes her heart do flip-flops. Nonetheless, she knows it is Luke she loves or does she?
Meg Cabot is a whiz at creating both fun and fantasy. She does it every which way with Queen of Babble Gets Hitched. A caveat: While some readers of the first two books in this series may have wished for further emphasis on original characters, first-time readers will probably find it a romp.
- Gail Cooke
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G8!, 7 July 2008
This review is from: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Hardcover)
Loved it!! Meg Cabot can do no wrong!! Lizzie is still as funny, lovely and easy to relate to as ever! I also agree with her choices in the end!!! A fantastic book all round!!
A MUST READ!!
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Hooray, my favourite character is back!, 21 Aug 2009
This book is the third in the series of Queen of Babble, i have read this and the second and will probably still purchase the first sometime! It is the story of Lizzie, a blabbermouth with a heart who gets her love life in a big mess. It is also the tale of a girl with an obsession with weddings for her career and is interspersed with interesting information on the history of Weddings, although one or two bits were dubious to say the least.
The book is full of humour and there is a lot of rooting for one of the male leads in the story as it is a bit of a star crossed lovers situation. The book would be harder to read if book two hadn't been read as book two ends on a cliff hanger and you have to draw your own conclusions, but this book sorts that out in a whole book kind of way!
I was very pleased to see the character of Tiffany come back in this book as she is a side character who gave me the most laughs and she really could have had her own book, shame she hasn't!
It was a satisfying read but i did think that if the man in the story who claimed to love Lizzie so much did infact love her so much then why was he so willing to step back and watch her make mistakes with no fight for her! also why deny her a bit of fun side of a certain day - don't want to give too much away - if he loves her so much! but all in all a great book and Meg Cabot can't seem to write a bad book. Great.
I would recommend anyone looking to purchase if they can afford book two as well to go for that too.
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