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Airhead

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I can't lie; this had to be the oddest book that I have read by one of my favorite authors!

Emerson Watts is a pretty typical nerdy girl at a good school. She has one best friend, who she is secretly in love with (It is a guy, by the way.) But she is only typical until she goes to a store opening with her sister and gets injured in a very freak accident.

When she wakes up after about a month of being unconscious, she feels like she is someone else.

And she actually is.

This is not a paranormal book. She gets a brain transplant.

At the end of the book I literally said, "Get me the next book! NOW!" The ending is a total cliffhanger!

The characters are smart, witty, and a little weird, as with typical Meg Cabot books. A fun read, even though the beginning is a little hard to understand, and can be difficult to get into. However, it is definitely worth reading the whole thing, because it is truly hilarious!

Reviewed by: Taylor Rector

Really, I should have seen it coming. Meg Cabot is obsessed with Star Wars, watches way too much TV and has already done the psychic thing, the princess thing, the paranormal thing and the historical fiction thing. And with the popularity of Stephenie Meyer's The Host: A Novel, why shouldn't she jump on the body-snatcher bandwagon?

Emerson Watts loves to play video games, has never kissed a boy and refers to the popular crowed at her alternative college prep school in Manhattan as the Walking Dead. So when she wakes up as a $4,000-dress-wearing, boyfriend-stealing, high-school-drop-outing supermodel, she doesn't know how she can take over Nikki Howard's identity let alone walk in her stiletto shoes.

While this book was interesting, and Nikki's best friend Lulu is definitely a stand-out character with her philosophies on love, skin care and house-keeping, I just didn't really buy it. I mean, come on, a music mega-story paying for a body transplant so they don't have to find a new spokes-model? It's a stretch, even for the author who brought us a princess in hiding, a kick-boxing ghost shrink, Arthur reincarnated, a lighting-struck person-finder and an unlucky teenage witch. Not that it was really a bad book, just not up to par.

Plus, can we please get a completed series sometime soon? With Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess (Princess Diaries) and Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Queen of Babble) looming in the distance, two more books promised for the Heather Wells Mystery series, the unfinished Jinx series, the unfinished Avalon High series, her new middle-grade Allie Finkle series and who knows what other series rolling around in her head, do we really need a sci-fi version of America's Next Top Model?

But if you want a light read that is classic Meg Cabot, you can't pass up this book. Her books are always filled with characters that are quirky and relatable, romance and teenaged angst that keep YA lit lovers coming back for more, and dialogue that will inevitably win you over.

I enjoy reading just about all of her books. They are funny, light, and well-written.

This, one, however, just went no where. It was boring, and it just didn't have the spark or fun of previous works. The ending was extremely unsatisfying, and absolutely nothing happened. Seriously.

Here is just about everything that happened: Em Watts getts into an accident, has her brain transplanted into a model. This confuses her for a while. Then she goes to live as a model with the models best friend. She is in love with her best friend who thinks she is dead now that she is in a new body.

That is all that happens. Their wasn't resolution to anything, Em wasn't a particularly funny, wise, interesting or anything character.

Also, It seemed like the book wanted to have a 'point', or try to say something, about looks, and society's judgement of people, being different, and how you have to be pretty to fit in, but at the end it just seemed like, "Yeah, being pretty is AWESOME! I'm way cooler now that I am pretty! Everyone wants to be my friend and I can have any guy I want. And now I like wearing pretty clothes, because I am pretty!" Uh, yeah, I buy that.

It was a quick read, but not satisfying in any dimension. I'll get the next one out of the library.

I am a real fan of Meg Cabot (though I didn't care as much for the regencies she wrote as Patricia Cabot.) I didn't realize when I pre-ordered this book that it was intended for her younger age group series.

Even though it focused around high school, I found that I still enjoyed the book. I was a bit shocked at the accident, fully expecting that it would be more of a "Freaky Friday" plot. Accepting the consequences was a bit difficult and why I rated it a 4 instead of a 5. I still wish somehow it could come right at the end and knowing that it can't makes it a little less enjoyable for me.

Apart from that, I found the humor to be as enjoyable for someone my age as for a teenager. I will consider buying more from this series.

**SPOILERS BELOW**

Well, I now get what people meant when they said this was 'different' from Meg's other books. I really can't say if that goes under good-different or bad-different. I loved Em (come on, coolest name EVER XD) and Christopher, but the book focused wayyy too little attention on the latter. Instead, most of the attention was given to Nikki's new model friends, which was just...dumb, didn't seem to contribute to the plot, and bored me. I'd hoped that Christopher would make a reappearance much much earlier and was quite saddened when I found out that that wouldn't be the case. I also wanted a bit more resolution--I realize that there'll be a sequel, but even one book does need to tie things up, and this doesn't do that AT ALL, it doesn't feel like a complete novel. Annnd one last nitpicky note, I know Meg would never do this intentionally, but much of what was written seemed to push the ideas that models are more than just selfish & spoiled robots, and you know that got on my nerves. Nevertheless, I can't wait to read more about "Nikki"'s new life, and I really hope we get more geekily-adorable Christopher in the next book. (And here's hoping he grows that gorgeous hair back!)

(THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER FREE)

Airhead by Meg Cabot

Emerson Watts is a high school junior, she is sneered at by the popular crowd and is in love with her best friend Christopher, whom doesn't seem to realize she is in fact a girl. It couldn't get much worse could it. It sure could, like getting stuck taking your little sister to the grand opening of some superstore to see her latest boy band crush. Luckily for Emerson, Christopher tags along. He even says she looks fine, as in okay. And Em is totally excited about her new "fine" status (maybe he does know she is a girl), until Christopher sees super model Nikki Howard. Emerson can't help but notice Christopher's stare and wonders if he would look at her that way if she were a super model. If only. She knows he will only every see her as a video -game playing tomboy, right?

I'm sorry but I left out a huge part of the story in my summary. I just can't make myself tell you what happens! You need to read it and discover it for yourself, because I know you are going to freak out, just like I did. What can I say, Cabot did it again , the lady is a freaggin literary genius. I mean how many books has she written, seriously. I know that this is going to be one of my new favorite series. You are going to love it, as well as fall in love with Emerson. She is my new best friend and she doesn't even know it! I cannot wait to read more about her. If you haven't already decided to get this book, you really should!

Airhead is a book full of adventure and odd ideas! the scientific aspect gives it a unique aura, making it a fun easy read for teen girls. However, other books by Meg Cabot focusing on a teenage girl give the protaganist a similar character; not a distinguishing characteristic I look for in an author.

I'm back. I adored this book. It was amazing. The only problem is that I can't find the SEQUEL! It ends right when things seem to be getting really interesting, and the sequel isn't out?? I am disappointed about the sequel, but I loved the book.

Firstly, the situation in this book made me feel so frustrated that it was stressful! Why? Because the `heroine' is stuck in another body, her best friend, her grandmother, in fact pretty much everyone but her sister and parents, think she's dead! And if she tells anyone she's not the supermodel whose body her brain's been transplanted into, her parents have to pay millions of dollars for the surgery that saved her life!

The premise of the book is totally ridicules - that a girl has to keep the contracts the dead person whose body she got made, and that, if your body's dead, you're legally dead. In America, someone is legally dead when their brain is! So this story could never happen, and was just depressing.

And the heroine is just like all the other girls in the author's books, who are a little obsessed with boys and lack self-confidence.

Ok, so I've read a couple of Meg Cabot's books, and I really like them. I finished reading Airhead last night (or this morning) ;) at 2:00 am. I couldn't stop reading, Emerson/Nikki has an incredible life!

Airhead is about a girl named Emerson Watts who gets in an accident, and a month later wakes up in a supermodel's body. In Airhead she finds out how she became Nikki Howard (the supermodel), what happened to her old self (Emerson Watts), and a lot of other things along the way (her sister tried out for cheerleading?!).

I loved this book. Personally, I've moved around a lot so I know what it's like balancing different lives (Emerson has to take on Nikki's lifestyle, but she misses her old life). I definitely recommend this book to teen girls and their moms. Buy the book!! :) :) :)