I got this book back in 2005 when I used to somewhat enjoy reading chick-lit. It’s nineteen years later, so it’s time to dust it off the physical TBR shelf and finally get into it. ………. I kind of wish I just donated it with the other ones, but unfortunately I liked the cover so I wanted to keep it and was deceived by the reviews. This book is 379 pages long and I DNF when I had 80 pages left. Let me tell you why:This book is written in email format, that were being exchanged between the main cha...

This was so much fun. I mean, I saw the ending coming from a mile away and it was mega cheesy, but still, SO FUN. I can't believe I waited so long to start this series. Meg Cabot is my queen

Reread 2020: Such an improvement over the last Cabot book I am bumping it up from a four to five star review though it's probably really a 4.5 star book.This one is really tropey and Cabot really does have signature tropes but I did enjoy it. It is a comfort read through and through. In a lot of ways, it sort of reminds me of a modern remake of one of those old Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies my mom used to make me watch as a kid. To see review of whole series with gifs click here.In a lot of w...

When I'm asked what my favorite book is, this always comes into my head because I was just so entertained. I don't know how Meg Cabot did an all-email book and make it so amazing. She is definitely a talented author!

What I particularly enjoyed about this book is the originality of the writing style. The book is written in a modern epistolary fashion, it develops through the emails the various characters exchange.
The story is witty, there is a little bit of a mystery to solve, which I always enjoy, and the book overall is light and refreshing.

So, this was my first Meg Cabot. Maybe not the best place to start, considering there are more popular books of hers I could have started with but I guess it wasn't a too bad introduction to her work. The Boy Next Door started out pretty awesome, there was hilarity left and right and I just loved it. After I was halfway through, though, the book began to drag quite a bit and I was annoyed with most of the characters. The magic of the cute romance faded for me as well because even if it was cute,...

I wasn't sure I was going to be able to finish this one because, while there were some things I genuinely liked about the email format in which it was written, the format overall left me wanting. The story picked up, however, and I found myself not minding the email format so much. After a little while, I found myself engrossed, wanting desperately to find out who attacked the neighbor and whether or not Mel and John would get together (OK, so admittedly I knew this was an inevitability since it...

This book has earned its place as my new most embarrassing book to read in public to date. I made a special point to fold the pages of this book over, hiding the cheesy cover which seemed to scream the announcement “Yes I read mindless, fluffy chicklit!” I guess I wouldn’t have been so embarrassed to be reading this book if it had not been for the general low quality of the entire concept. The Boy Next Door is a romantic story Mel, young gossip columnist for a New York newspaper, who ends up fal...

Ok - just to warn you - This entire book is in e-mail format. Yup. 379 pages of e-mails. Truth be told - I really liked it! So we have Mel Fuller who writes the page 10 celebrity gossip column for the NY Journal. She is late to work (for about the 50th time) because she found her neighbor lady laying face down with her dog barking like mad. She really likes her neighbor Mrs. Friedlander and feels bad for her 2 cats and dog (a great dane named Paco - who has a Great Dane in NY City?!?!) so Mel ta...

Well it is almost 1 o'clock and I just finished this book. I couldn't put it down. It was just a really fun, easy read which I am all about. It is different from other books I've read, It is written all in e-mails, which you think might not carry the story very well but it did. I kept thinking ok one more e-mail and I'm going to bed. The only thing that irritated me a little is the main character (Mel) calls her mom and dad mommy and daddy, I don't know, something about an adult doing that rubbe...