Meg Cabot

This is a first for me, to review an entire six book series in one go. This smaller sized, young adult series was a hit with me for a light, summer read this year. If you've got time on your hands, you can gobble a book a day easily and I recommend highly that you not read other novels in between this set. Highly satisfying, at times funny, at times teary, this touching but slightly odd ball story will...

I've had the pleasure of reading Meg Cabot's other works, including a previous one in this series and I stand by my earlier statement that she is a good go-to author in between my favorite authors. Meg does a great job of giving us a step-by-step daily job view of working at a college residence in the United States, and the stressors of getting married (both of which Meg herself has experienced!). There are also some nice spots of humor to be found in these pages as well so I tip my hat to her on that. The murder mystery component was a bit...

First let me say, the description above, in my humble reader’s opinion, does not accurately reflect the main focus of the plot in Abandon. Huh, eh? It’s a first for me. So let me tell you what this book is truly focused on: Pierce has some ADD, some notoriety for being a rich man’s daughter and a lot of problems nobody knows about. For instance, the guy she might make her boyfriend? He rules the underworld. Hard to spiff that up and take it home to Mom and Dad! After drowning in...