I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THESE BOOKS. As a firm believer in anything supernatural, these books really satisfied. Suze, as a teenager, is very believable – but almost too believable to be a hard-core ghostbuster. The voice and style is highly reminiscent of…
Well, pretty much everything else that Ms. Cabot has written. I did notice that she repeats clichés and other figures of speech a few times throughout the series – never in the same book, thankfully, but in adjacent books.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve read almost everything that Ms. Cabot has written (I really liked Avalon High. The Camelot fan in me had a heyday). But she does gear herself more toward tween readers in her Princess Diaries series. She hadn’t quite gotten out of that habit in this series. It appeals to the 13-18 age range, but only superficially. The storyline is a little too young yet to be characterized as a YA series. It’s still a very good story, but not as descriptive as others I’ve read. It’s very whirlwind though, and I love that. (Hence the title of the blog, Harlequin Romance book reviews.)
But hey, all that aside, it’s amazing and I loved every second. I read the sixth book four times, it really was that good. And very attractive. :)
The series inspired my love for Western books and movies, even though I only just read the series a little over three weeks ago. As soon as I checked the last book in to the library, I promptly checked out a Western novel (The Crime of Coy Bell by Sam Brown. I will probably not review it, because it went too fast and it wasn’t very detailed). But literally, all I could think of for the weekend after I read the first three books was, “What was life really like in the West in 1850?” Ms. Cabot really researched all of her information carefully, and got the 1700’s architecture and 1800’s clothing and values spot on.
And for the record, the end of the last book – I nearly cried. It was so…
Happy / almost sad / totally sweet / I’m incredibly jealous / WOW. I love it.
Favorite series.
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Yeah, that's exactly the problem I have with Meg Cabot books..like take the Princess Diaries, I started reading them when I was 11. The books are meant to span four years of her life, and yet by book 10, I still feel like she has the voice of an 11 year old even though she's meant to be 18.
ReplyDeleteI read Jinx last year though, that was definitely a maturation. (I don't even know if that's a word.)
It is a word, in fact.
ReplyDeleteThumbs up for good vocabularies.