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    Every Boy's Got One

    By Meg Cabot

    3.5/5

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    Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, 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 Marches 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061741784
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    Every Boy's Got One
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    Meg Cabot

    MEG CABOT’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

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    • 4/5
      This was a fun, quick read.The main character, Jane Harris, is accompanying her best friend to Italy to be a witness/maid of honor at her elopement. On the way, she meets, Cal Langdon, the best man. The two couldn't be more dissimilar in their views of the world, love and life in general.The trip to Italy and the relationship with Cal is all told via email exchanges and diary entries (Jane's Travel Journal and Cal's PDA). Since this is an elopement -and supposedly secret - the bride and grooms mothers continually send emails re other more suitable life partners...lolOverall Rating: 3.5
    • 4/5
      The Best Man and Maid of Honor accompany the prospective bride and groom who are eloping to Italy. He's a foreign correspondent and she's a cartoonist working for the same paper. He comes across as a bit anal retentive; and she comes across as a bit flaky... This is less about the chemistry of opposites attracting than it is a wedding comedy. Told via journal entries, it's a great way to chase away a couple of rainy afternoon hours; but not as strong as the other books in the Boy series in terms of humor or sexiness.
    • 4/5
      I really liked the format on this one, told using emails and diaries and whatnot. The love story was adorable and the secondary characters always entertaining.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book it was fun the way the book was written out with all the emails.
    • 4/5
      It was cute. Predictable but sweet and funny at times. It is an easy fun read- a proverbial summer read!
    • 4/5
      An interesting story told from emails and journals with lots of humor but kind of low on romance that really didn't get started until near the end. Cartoonist Jane is maid of honor and joining her friend on a trip to Italy for their elopement when she takes an instant dislike to the best man Cal.
    • 5/5
      To: Jane Harris [jane@wondercat.com]
      Fr: Claire Harris [charris2004@freemail.com]
      Re: You

      Hi, honey! It's me, Mom. I know it's a big secret that your friend Holly and her boyfriend Mark are eloping in Italy, and that you and Mark's friend Cal Langdon (the handsome New York Journal reporter with the big book deal) are going, too, as their witnesses. But I just saw Holly's mother at the Kroger Sav-On, and I thought I'd warn you: She doesn't seem to like Mark very much at all. Just wanted to let you know.

      PS I don't understand why you don't like that nice Cal Langdon! He seemed so smart when I saw him being interviewed on Charlie Rose. And so handsome!

      PPS Don't forget to wear a sweater!

      Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, 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 Marches 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.
    • 5/5
      I love Meg Cabot's email books!! I read A LOT, yet this series I count as one of my all-time fav books. Yes, they are fluff, but they are really very clever and original and funny. It is a light read that uplifts you, makes you feel better about the world!! Bad reviews to these books really upset me for some reason (I love Ms - Miss?? Mrs?? - Cabot, and feel the need to defend and protect her princessy, marshmallowy, chock full of heart (yes, it is Every Boy Has a Heart, Not A Penis!) books!!!)!!!! And of course no one in the real world sends an email stopped in mid-sentence, but come on!! For the purpose of the book, just pretend that they do, instead of reading a book that practically screams from the cover 'I Am Pink Fluff!!' yet you picked it up expecting something else??? Then you bag it as rubbish??? That's almost as sinful as eating the entire hot dog then saying 'but I don't like mustard!!' Meg Cabot is the Queen of Romantic Comedy, and I treasure this Email/Boy series. They are my special, comfort, everything is alright books. Expect to get sticky, pink fingers, the series is that sweet. 5 sticky pink stars!!!
    • 3/5
      While this is a better book than Boy Next Door, I still had some massive plotting and characterization issues as I read through it. The overall story is cute—I do really enjoy the main eloping in Italy story, and there are some good moments with Jane—but the romantic story with Cal Langdon is what really bothered me whenever I was reading. The problem with the romance is that it’s set up for such the cliché of “I hate you on sight! Oh, but you secretly have a warm fluffy marshmallow sensitive side, but I still hate you! And you’re hot! I wouldn’t mind sleeping with you!” (Or as I call it, the Bennett/Darcy Hypocrisies.) This is also really bothersome for me, as whenever I read a “battle of the sexes” plot, it always seems like the guy in the relationship has to be a huge jerk throughout the whole story, until his change of heart, and goes “You know what, [love interest]? You were completely right! I’ve seen the error of my manly ways.” (For anyone who is intending a Pride & Prejudice feel: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG. Both Elizabeth and Darcy admit at the end that both of their actions were wrong. /tangent.) Not to mention, there are really glaring double-standards in this. For example, Cal’s whole backstory about how he married a woman after knowing her for a week and her cheating on him broke his heart….and the book ends with a couple getting together permanently having known each other for a week. But it’s okay, since Jane is a normal, average cartoonist and not a modeling harpy! A lot of the book is saved by the side characters, which makes it enjoyable, but massive grating problems with this.
    • 4/5
      A laugh out loud sparkling read
    • 4/5
      Not really sure of the significance of the title. The whole story is told through a very detailed travel journal (initially intended as a wedding present to the couple who are eloping) and emails - a clever device where you have to fill the gaps at times.
    • 4/5
      Loosely connected third in the Boy series, this novel does not disappoint if you are looking for light, romantic reading. The edition I read had an interesting section at the end by the author detailing all the ways in which the novel used real life events of her Italian wedding. On top of all that, I kept being reminded of basic plotlines in "Pride and Prejudice". Two people - each forming an unflattering and unbalanced picture of each other - undeniably attracted to each other none-the-less. The hero saves the day, they each admit they were wrong, happily ever after. Cabot does have a way of making me giggle.
    • 5/5
      Just to start off, I'm pretty sure it's "a heart".Anyway, this story is about Jane, a cat-obsessed cartoonist, who helps her friends Mark and Holly elope in Italy. "Oh wait," you might ask, "where's the boy?" Coming along for the ride is Cal, Mark's friend.Before they even officially meet, Jane and Cal hate each other (wonder where that could end up?). But as you know.. mm... stuff happens. XD. I would have loved a story about Mark and Holly, since they are Jewish and Catholic and their families are having issues about that. That should be interesting. Oh wait, there probably is one The Boy Next Door... that could be it?Anyway, this book, like Boy Meets Girl is told in an untraditional way. It's made up of journal entries, blackberry text messages, emails, signs, menus, programs, notes, etc., which are all very lovely.Also, Cal has a very amusing foot fetish which should have been used as an inside joke somewhere. Oh right they did have an inside joke about him. Ahhhh, I remember now.The book is pure fluff, but fluff is the stuff that I luff, so get over it.
    • 1/5
      didn't enjoy this book and found it boring and too predictable. A couple go off to Italy to elope. Their best man and maid of honor go with them. The two do not hit it off and actually detest each other. See where this is going?
    • 2/5
      Cute and fluffy, but definitely one of Cabot's worst. I still love the modern epistolary style (email, PDA diary, etc), but it didn't work for this context, where all the main characters are almost always together... nobody emails each other when they're sitting next to each other in a car... at least not that much. Also, the love interest made a complete and utter turn-around in the end; it was much too sudden and there was nothing leading up to him changing his ways and thinking so drastically.
    • 2/5
      On the same trip to the library (as when I got Swimming Upstream Slowly), I also picked up (again, randomly, just from perusing the shelves), Meg Cabot's Every Boy's Got One. The component of this book that attracted me to it was that it was made up not of traditional paragraphs but of e-mails and journal entries. I've always had a penchant for that type of writing -- I loved the Baby-Sitters Club books because each chapter started with a hand-written entries and one book I read multiple times as a young person was Norma Fox Mazer's I, Trissy (in which the heroine receives a typewriter for her birthday and the whole book is made up of things she's written on it).But from the first page, the book's heroine, Jane Harris, grated on my nerves. After about 50-pages, when she still hadn't grown on me, I was about to put the book aside for good when I found myself in a situation with nothing else to read. It was only about two-thirds of the way through that Jane became a sympathetic heroine to me.This book was definitely not life altering. It is fluff. Fairly fun fluff (aside from the main character being a little too oblivious about her true emotions and kinda full of herself, and disinterested in politics and world events and pretty much anything of consequence).Even though I love the format of journal entries, I was unable to suspend my disbelief in this case. It seemed implausible that anyone would have that much time to hand write long-winded entries about every detail of their trip to Italy. Or that their hand-writing would be legible when written on drives on narrow roads on the mountainside.One element that was pretty cute and worked well was the character of Peter, the house-keeper's German nephew who was a great fan of Jane's famous cartoon cat and whose posts to a fan site were included in the novel, broken English and all.Another component I liked was the post-script, in which the author included material about how she'd come up for the idea for the book and her own travels to Italy, where she got married herself. I liked that part better than the book itself.And right now, the title of the book strikes me as a complete mystery. Every boy's got what, again? Maybe it was a heart? A soft spot? A romantic bone? I can't quite remember now.So what I get out of this this is that using a different format might draw a reader in, but if the characters and plot don't appeal to the reader, the interest is unikely to be sustained. The format becomes a gimmick. For a novel to really work, it needs more than that.
    • 3/5
      Very, very quick read. Very light weight, but enjoyable as long as lightweight chick lit is what you're looking for.
    • 4/5
      I bought this book at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport for something light to read on the plane to the States, and it was spot on what I wanted. Light, sweet and funny; the perfect book for a long flight, in my opinion.
    • 4/5
      A more adult Meg Cabot. A light romance where Cartoonist Jane Harris is helping her best friend elope with her boyfriend. The best man is causing sparks to fly.Format similar to Cecelia Aherne's Where Rainbows End.