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Airhead
Meg Cabot expands her huge fan base with this slightly darker, more mysterious novel - without losing any of her signature heart and humor.EM WATTS IS GONE. Emerson Watts didn't even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there-along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her,and life as she'd known it, forever?
360 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2008
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Meg Cabot
279 books35.4k followersLibrarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).
Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby--writing novels--for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses.
She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-You? series (on which the television series, Missing, was based), two All-American Girl books, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How to Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, a series of novels written entirely in email format (Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy's Got One), a mystery series (Size 12 Is Not Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble.
Meg is now writing a new children's series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Her new paranormal series, Abandon, debuts in Summer of 2011.
Meg currently divides her time between Key West, Indiana, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn't know he married a fire horse. Please don't tell him.
Series:
* Airhead
* The Princess Diaries
* Mediator
Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby--writing novels--for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses.
She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-You? series (on which the television series, Missing, was based), two All-American Girl books, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How to Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, a series of novels written entirely in email format (Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy's Got One), a mystery series (Size 12 Is Not Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble.
Meg is now writing a new children's series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Her new paranormal series, Abandon, debuts in Summer of 2011.
Meg currently divides her time between Key West, Indiana, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn't know he married a fire horse. Please don't tell him.
Series:
* Airhead
* The Princess Diaries
* Mediator
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May 29, 2021
this book is middle school me's bible.
god this story of a normal girl waking up in the body of a supermodel HIT. it's the dream! she had a hot boyfriend, she had a killer bod, she was rich and famous. she traded all that in for her dumb high school best friend crush. just awesome stuff.
i should reread this. they don't make em like this anymore.
this is part of a series i am doing where i review books i read a long time ago. i have nothing but respect for this one but i can't feasibly give it more than 3.5 stars.
god this story of a normal girl waking up in the body of a supermodel HIT. it's the dream! she had a hot boyfriend, she had a killer bod, she was rich and famous. she traded all that in for her dumb high school best friend crush. just awesome stuff.
i should reread this. they don't make em like this anymore.
this is part of a series i am doing where i review books i read a long time ago. i have nothing but respect for this one but i can't feasibly give it more than 3.5 stars.
May 14, 2008
Em Watts is not herself. Literally.
She never wanted to go to the grand opening of the new Stark Megastore store. That was her sister Frida’s idea. But that day changed her life. In an attempt to save her sister Frida from certain harm, Em tries to push Frida out of the way, getting crushed by a falling television screen in the process.
When Em wakes up in the hospital, she has no idea what happened. She can only recall bits of what happened that day, such as a certain gorgeous British singer and songwriter, Gabriel Luna, who sneaks into the hospital to give her flowers. But that’s not the only strange thing that happens. Her voice sounds funny, and soon her supposed best friend and celebutante Lulu Collins and her supposed boyfriend Brandon Stark kidnap her from the hospital and take her back to her supposed penthouse apartment. And Em has no idea why she’s being whisked off by famous people that’s she’s only heard of from skimming her sister Frida’s magazines. Until, of course, she finds out that she’s stuck in supermodel Nikki Howard’s body.
Airhead could possibly be Meg Cabot’s best novel yet. I have to admit that I have never been a completely devoted fan of Meg Cabot’s works (with the exception of Avalon High), but Airhead was quick to become one of my favorites. Cabot proves herself to be a versatile and extremely ingenious writer. I do not understand where these crazy ideas come from, but I’m glad they do, because Airhead was simply an amazing book.
I don’t want to give away anything too crucial to the plot, so I’ll only say that Meg Cabot does an amazing job of combining the modeling world with that of advanced science. It is very amusing to watch Em’s character as she navigates in and adjusts to her new life. Em is laugh-out-loud funny, and at the same time, she comes off as very intelligent. I really cannot find any faults with this novel. It has both hilarious and meaningful moments, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel.
I recommend this novel first to all Meg Cabot fans; you will not be disappointed! And even if you don’t usually like Meg Cabot’s other novels, you’ll be sure to enjoy Airhead, because it is an incredible read that left me wanting more. I highly suggest you run out immediately to buy this book before it gets sold out, and I know I certainly can’t wait for the continuation of this awesome series.
reposted from http://thebookmuncher.blogspot.com
She never wanted to go to the grand opening of the new Stark Megastore store. That was her sister Frida’s idea. But that day changed her life. In an attempt to save her sister Frida from certain harm, Em tries to push Frida out of the way, getting crushed by a falling television screen in the process.
When Em wakes up in the hospital, she has no idea what happened. She can only recall bits of what happened that day, such as a certain gorgeous British singer and songwriter, Gabriel Luna, who sneaks into the hospital to give her flowers. But that’s not the only strange thing that happens. Her voice sounds funny, and soon her supposed best friend and celebutante Lulu Collins and her supposed boyfriend Brandon Stark kidnap her from the hospital and take her back to her supposed penthouse apartment. And Em has no idea why she’s being whisked off by famous people that’s she’s only heard of from skimming her sister Frida’s magazines. Until, of course, she finds out that she’s stuck in supermodel Nikki Howard’s body.
Airhead could possibly be Meg Cabot’s best novel yet. I have to admit that I have never been a completely devoted fan of Meg Cabot’s works (with the exception of Avalon High), but Airhead was quick to become one of my favorites. Cabot proves herself to be a versatile and extremely ingenious writer. I do not understand where these crazy ideas come from, but I’m glad they do, because Airhead was simply an amazing book.
I don’t want to give away anything too crucial to the plot, so I’ll only say that Meg Cabot does an amazing job of combining the modeling world with that of advanced science. It is very amusing to watch Em’s character as she navigates in and adjusts to her new life. Em is laugh-out-loud funny, and at the same time, she comes off as very intelligent. I really cannot find any faults with this novel. It has both hilarious and meaningful moments, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel.
I recommend this novel first to all Meg Cabot fans; you will not be disappointed! And even if you don’t usually like Meg Cabot’s other novels, you’ll be sure to enjoy Airhead, because it is an incredible read that left me wanting more. I highly suggest you run out immediately to buy this book before it gets sold out, and I know I certainly can’t wait for the continuation of this awesome series.
reposted from http://thebookmuncher.blogspot.com
February 10, 2020
I am NOT happy with this book. First off, it's part one of a series so the story is incomplete. Second of all, I didn't realize what I was getting in for when I picked it up. Nowhere in the blurb on the inside front cover did it tell me that Horrid concept for a book. It was written okay, but the premise of the book is just way too out there. And it upsets me when you read 340 pages only to not know how the story ends! For those wanting to continue reading the saga... find "Being Nikki". (NOTE: As much as it ticked me off to find out that it was... to be continued.. I'm going to read the next book from the library simply because by now I want to find out what happens. If I'd known it was a series to begin with, I may not have read it.)
EDITED: I downgraded my 2 star rating to 1 star. This series still ticks me off and is probably the worst series this author has written! I hated the second book even more than the first and have never had any desire to read the third book to find out how it all ends because it's THAT BAD!
EDITED: I downgraded my 2 star rating to 1 star. This series still ticks me off and is probably the worst series this author has written! I hated the second book even more than the first and have never had any desire to read the third book to find out how it all ends because it's THAT BAD!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 12, 2018
feel free to call this series trashy but know i'm out here stanning it anyway
January 15, 2008
Okay, so I was having the absolute best time reading my ARC copy of this newest Meg Cabot that doesn't come out until June. I was loving it!!! The smart tomboy's brain gets transplanted into a supermodel's body and chaos ensues. What's not to love? But then, everything started coming together way too easily and things that should have taken a long time to explain or dawn on the characters were blithely wrapped up in just a couple of paragraphs and I was hurtling towards the end of the book with no clear ending that I could see. Oh! Sequel. With hundreds of pages of set-up and then a quick and dirty finale, can I say that I am now totally disgusted? Meg Cabot does not usually do this. I find that her teen books usually hold up on their own really well. So, I would like to vent my frustrations and downgrade the book from 5 to 3 stars based on the last third of the novel. Bummer, you guys!
April 3, 2019
Airhead lives up to its name because this is some pretty serious Young Adult fluff. Which is not always a bad thing, but in this case it's just not great. I'm definitely too old for most Meg Cabot novels, but at best this deserves three stars. I've given it two because I just expect more from fluff; give me cotton candy, not the insides of a mouldy, old pillow.
The protagonist is not great but not awful; Emerson Watts is your typical run of the mill YA female lead that doesn't quite fit in. The plotline is somewhat interesting and original. A bit dark, actually. Imagine a teenager dying from an aneurysm in a light-hearted YA novel! The writing is pretty decent (for the genre), and there are a couple of standout, mildly entertaining supporting characters (why is it so hard to create an interesting protagonist though?).
This book, however, was always going to be part of a trilogy, which is the worst way to write a novel, if you ask me. If, at its inception, you're already thinking about continuing the story in two or more books, the first one will undoubtedly turn out weaker than you meant it to. Unless of course you're actually planning to develop a much larger, more complex over-arching story line. Well written series' have a distinct beginning, middle, and end to each installment. Airhead, does not. It suffers from an incredibly long lead up and then comes to an abrupt halt just as things start to get going.
This is perhaps largely why I have chosen to bestow two stars upon Airhead when normally I would have given something like this three. Ultimately I'm not intrigued enough to pick up the sequel, and so for me Airhead just falls flat.
The protagonist is not great but not awful; Emerson Watts is your typical run of the mill YA female lead that doesn't quite fit in. The plotline is somewhat interesting and original. A bit dark, actually. Imagine a teenager dying from an aneurysm in a light-hearted YA novel! The writing is pretty decent (for the genre), and there are a couple of standout, mildly entertaining supporting characters (why is it so hard to create an interesting protagonist though?).
This book, however, was always going to be part of a trilogy, which is the worst way to write a novel, if you ask me. If, at its inception, you're already thinking about continuing the story in two or more books, the first one will undoubtedly turn out weaker than you meant it to. Unless of course you're actually planning to develop a much larger, more complex over-arching story line. Well written series' have a distinct beginning, middle, and end to each installment. Airhead, does not. It suffers from an incredibly long lead up and then comes to an abrupt halt just as things start to get going.
This is perhaps largely why I have chosen to bestow two stars upon Airhead when normally I would have given something like this three. Ultimately I'm not intrigued enough to pick up the sequel, and so for me Airhead just falls flat.
April 23, 2009
2nd QUARTER
December 21, 2008
Models. Airheads. Same thing.
By SITI HAJAR MOHD. KHAIRI 901
Airhead
By Meg Cabot
337 pages
2008 New York, NY
Point/Scholastic
Hardcover $16.99
ISBN-10: 0-545-04052-3
(Ages 12 and up)
Models. Airheads. Whatever. They are perfect, fake and live “The Dream” all girls drool about -- to be famous, loaded with cash, and, of course, striking. Airhead by Meg Cabot zooms a little into the future and gives insight on how technology is improving. What if one day you find that you can be someone you would never expect in a million years, literally? From a wallflower to an egocentric from one freak accident? It sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? Emerson Watts finds herself exactly in those -- designer -- stilettos. She is the protagonist who would be considered a “loser beyond repair” by the head of the Clique in the series by Lisi Harrison. Could that really happen in reality? Puh-lease! It’s science fiction stamped all over it! Save paper and don’t cut down trees for this book! These 337 pages are so not worth spending your time one. Like, omigod this book was SO last year!
There’s also the all-too familiar theme: forbidden love. Emerson turns out to be a tom-boyish character who has run out of time to confess her true feelings for her best friend, Christopher, who she as fallen -- really hard -- for. She hopes someday that Christopher would notice how she is a girl like any other. How could she say that now that she’s trapped…in a body that’s not her own? Though, a girl with the name Emerson might come sounding like a guy, no wonder Christopher has not made a “move” yet. Would Emerson really take that risk and jeopardize all those years of friendship? It’s not like she’s alone, there’s bound to be many people -- teenagers -- who are as scared as she was to have her true feelings out in the open. As if it has not been mentioned already in books like Twilight and Romeo & Juliet. Having a common theme that gets mentioned over and over in popular books would be boring! It was so boring I fell asleep reading the book!
Not to mention how the author makes everything seem longer than it should be. There would be a twenty-eight page pause that keeps you hanging as the character, poor Emerson, deals with all the problems that sensational super models have to deal with (like posing and -- keeping still for almost two hours -- in a painful position). I’m sure readers find model-life so interesting that it buries the whole forbidden love situation in the dirt in the mean time. NOT! Cut to the chase already!
Models. The worst role model to look up to. You know them. They’re skinny and had everything perfectly placed and all done for them. Their beauty -- displayed upon pages and pages of magazines, newspapers, ads and billboards -- is shown all over the place. First of all, stop wasting paper! Second, what kind of message would that influence girls all over the world!? Models are only worth as much as any precious girl living in this world. In the way society portrays these skinny ladies, they seem to shine brighter than the average diamond. Which is totally. Not. FAIR! It would totally affect girls -- especially teenage girls -- who are already vulnerable about their self-image.
Airhead by Meg Cabot is a poorly crafted piece of literature, the whole plot is an avalanche of snow that buries all the good things about the book. The most important part of any book: is the plot. If a reader doesn’t like it…then what’s the point? It keeps you captivated at the beginning, keeping you intrigued, feeding you bait. Then, a big leap and it cuts you off leaving a flat and lame finale. Although it kills me to say this about one of my favorite authors, this outlandish idea should be trapped within the cavernous walls of the author’s own spacious brain. It should never have been published. Save yourselves from further disappointment! In addition, an odd and harsh message gets thrown into the air. Your grandma would probably say, “it’s the inside that matters and nothing else.” (You go grandma!) In the world full of glory, lights, camera and action: it’s the outside that counts…the most.
December 21, 2008
Models. Airheads. Same thing.
By SITI HAJAR MOHD. KHAIRI 901
Airhead
By Meg Cabot
337 pages
2008 New York, NY
Point/Scholastic
Hardcover $16.99
ISBN-10: 0-545-04052-3
(Ages 12 and up)
Models. Airheads. Whatever. They are perfect, fake and live “The Dream” all girls drool about -- to be famous, loaded with cash, and, of course, striking. Airhead by Meg Cabot zooms a little into the future and gives insight on how technology is improving. What if one day you find that you can be someone you would never expect in a million years, literally? From a wallflower to an egocentric from one freak accident? It sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? Emerson Watts finds herself exactly in those -- designer -- stilettos. She is the protagonist who would be considered a “loser beyond repair” by the head of the Clique in the series by Lisi Harrison. Could that really happen in reality? Puh-lease! It’s science fiction stamped all over it! Save paper and don’t cut down trees for this book! These 337 pages are so not worth spending your time one. Like, omigod this book was SO last year!
There’s also the all-too familiar theme: forbidden love. Emerson turns out to be a tom-boyish character who has run out of time to confess her true feelings for her best friend, Christopher, who she as fallen -- really hard -- for. She hopes someday that Christopher would notice how she is a girl like any other. How could she say that now that she’s trapped…in a body that’s not her own? Though, a girl with the name Emerson might come sounding like a guy, no wonder Christopher has not made a “move” yet. Would Emerson really take that risk and jeopardize all those years of friendship? It’s not like she’s alone, there’s bound to be many people -- teenagers -- who are as scared as she was to have her true feelings out in the open. As if it has not been mentioned already in books like Twilight and Romeo & Juliet. Having a common theme that gets mentioned over and over in popular books would be boring! It was so boring I fell asleep reading the book!
Not to mention how the author makes everything seem longer than it should be. There would be a twenty-eight page pause that keeps you hanging as the character, poor Emerson, deals with all the problems that sensational super models have to deal with (like posing and -- keeping still for almost two hours -- in a painful position). I’m sure readers find model-life so interesting that it buries the whole forbidden love situation in the dirt in the mean time. NOT! Cut to the chase already!
Models. The worst role model to look up to. You know them. They’re skinny and had everything perfectly placed and all done for them. Their beauty -- displayed upon pages and pages of magazines, newspapers, ads and billboards -- is shown all over the place. First of all, stop wasting paper! Second, what kind of message would that influence girls all over the world!? Models are only worth as much as any precious girl living in this world. In the way society portrays these skinny ladies, they seem to shine brighter than the average diamond. Which is totally. Not. FAIR! It would totally affect girls -- especially teenage girls -- who are already vulnerable about their self-image.
Airhead by Meg Cabot is a poorly crafted piece of literature, the whole plot is an avalanche of snow that buries all the good things about the book. The most important part of any book: is the plot. If a reader doesn’t like it…then what’s the point? It keeps you captivated at the beginning, keeping you intrigued, feeding you bait. Then, a big leap and it cuts you off leaving a flat and lame finale. Although it kills me to say this about one of my favorite authors, this outlandish idea should be trapped within the cavernous walls of the author’s own spacious brain. It should never have been published. Save yourselves from further disappointment! In addition, an odd and harsh message gets thrown into the air. Your grandma would probably say, “it’s the inside that matters and nothing else.” (You go grandma!) In the world full of glory, lights, camera and action: it’s the outside that counts…the most.
March 7, 2011
Okay, so Meg Cabot is the Queen of YA literature. I have this image of her in my head sat on a throne of books, all of her own of course, because she has written plenty!! A gaggle of YA authors are sat around her; some feeding her little chocolate cupcakes with raspberry icing, some wafting her with giant bamboo leaves. Others are just sat around soaking in the glory of her presence, listening to the author who has the best accent regale them with stories the Queen herself has written. She also has fabulous shiny big hair and a perfect manicure, JUST like Nikki!! I know, I know, I have a overactive imagination, what of it?!
So, here's the deal. Em is a fantastically amazing nerd. Her idea of a fahhhhabulous night in is sitting around either watching documentries with her best friend Christopher, who she is so totes in love with but DAMMIT, why doesn't he realise! or seeing what level she can get to on Journeyquest, which is like, only the best video game EVER! Frida, her little sister, is turning to the dark side, what with her trying out to be a cheerleader and ACTUALLY knowing what shade of lipgloss suits her. Throw in the opening of a large gonna close down all the shops in your area megastore owned by the shady Stark Enterprises, which her parents make her take Frida to, because it just really isnt enough that she's turning into a clone all by herself. Add a pop star with a British accent, a supermodel called Nikki Howard and a giant plasma TV that only falls off the wall ONTO EM when activists protesting against Stark Enterprises take over the show.....and.......BAM!@!!! Em is no longer Emerson Watts, well, she is....BUT she's only stuck in Nikki Howards body. WHAT THE WHAT RIGHT?! Then crazy hot highjinks ensue, because she has to actually pretend to be Nikki, because Stark Enterprises are blackmailing her mom and dad with the millions of pounds hospital fees and such.
Basically, any book that can combine feminisim, make up, hot boys and being supermodely gorgeous is a book that I am all over like white on rice. Plus it has, wait for it, a BRAIN TRANSPLANT. I know! close your mouth and stop drooling. I really understood Em's confusion and anger when she woke up in Nikki Howard's body, because even though it would be prettttttty cool to wake up and be super duper gorgeous, I would kind of be annoyed that I had to pretend to actually BE Nikki, because that would be like loosing your own identity and would pretty much blow. Plus, the fact that Em has to still honour all of Nikki's modelling contracts because Stark paid for the brain transplant, well, I don't even like having to do my own work let alone someone else's so I get why Em was like HELL NO. But when she come around, I liked that she still had her values and integrity and didn't morph into a mean girl.
Also, if you like sexytimes then oh boy, OH FREAKING BOY DOES SHE BRING IT. I promise, if teenage me was reading this book I probably would have tried to kiss everything that is male and that moved. The swoonizzle between Em and Chistopher was sweet and endearing and just FINE thank you very much. And the hotness between Em in Nikki's body and well, any guy who decided they wanted some was pretty damn off the hotness scale, because even though Em hasn't really kissed anyone before, Nikki's body is like a one woman kissing machine. Like POW.
In conclusion, this book made me want to be a supermodel. HA just kidding. Well only a little. Like with the other Cabot books i've read, this has a verrrrrra special place on my bookshelf. Because Em, I mean Nikki, is a true literary BFF. She can console me when I can't find the perfect shade of lip gloss. She can cry with me when the guy I'm crushing on doesn't even realise because he is stoooopid as most guys are. And most of all, she can make me laugh with her sarcastic comments and general nerd like behavoiur. In one word, Love.
So, here's the deal. Em is a fantastically amazing nerd. Her idea of a fahhhhabulous night in is sitting around either watching documentries with her best friend Christopher, who she is so totes in love with but DAMMIT, why doesn't he realise! or seeing what level she can get to on Journeyquest, which is like, only the best video game EVER! Frida, her little sister, is turning to the dark side, what with her trying out to be a cheerleader and ACTUALLY knowing what shade of lipgloss suits her. Throw in the opening of a large gonna close down all the shops in your area megastore owned by the shady Stark Enterprises, which her parents make her take Frida to, because it just really isnt enough that she's turning into a clone all by herself. Add a pop star with a British accent, a supermodel called Nikki Howard and a giant plasma TV that only falls off the wall ONTO EM when activists protesting against Stark Enterprises take over the show.....and.......BAM!@!!! Em is no longer Emerson Watts, well, she is....BUT she's only stuck in Nikki Howards body. WHAT THE WHAT RIGHT?! Then crazy hot highjinks ensue, because she has to actually pretend to be Nikki, because Stark Enterprises are blackmailing her mom and dad with the millions of pounds hospital fees and such.
Basically, any book that can combine feminisim, make up, hot boys and being supermodely gorgeous is a book that I am all over like white on rice. Plus it has, wait for it, a BRAIN TRANSPLANT. I know! close your mouth and stop drooling. I really understood Em's confusion and anger when she woke up in Nikki Howard's body, because even though it would be prettttttty cool to wake up and be super duper gorgeous, I would kind of be annoyed that I had to pretend to actually BE Nikki, because that would be like loosing your own identity and would pretty much blow. Plus, the fact that Em has to still honour all of Nikki's modelling contracts because Stark paid for the brain transplant, well, I don't even like having to do my own work let alone someone else's so I get why Em was like HELL NO. But when she come around, I liked that she still had her values and integrity and didn't morph into a mean girl.
Also, if you like sexytimes then oh boy, OH FREAKING BOY DOES SHE BRING IT. I promise, if teenage me was reading this book I probably would have tried to kiss everything that is male and that moved. The swoonizzle between Em and Chistopher was sweet and endearing and just FINE thank you very much. And the hotness between Em in Nikki's body and well, any guy who decided they wanted some was pretty damn off the hotness scale, because even though Em hasn't really kissed anyone before, Nikki's body is like a one woman kissing machine. Like POW.
In conclusion, this book made me want to be a supermodel. HA just kidding. Well only a little. Like with the other Cabot books i've read, this has a verrrrrra special place on my bookshelf. Because Em, I mean Nikki, is a true literary BFF. She can console me when I can't find the perfect shade of lip gloss. She can cry with me when the guy I'm crushing on doesn't even realise because he is stoooopid as most guys are. And most of all, she can make me laugh with her sarcastic comments and general nerd like behavoiur. In one word, Love.
March 10, 2009
Whhhhhhyyyyyy do I always get sucked in by Meg Cabot books?! I loved The Mediator series, and Avalon High, but this one and the last I read (Jinx) have left me regretting the hours I spent reading them. UGH...headdesk, headdesk, headdesk!! So obviously I didn't like it. The plot was interesting enough, teen dies in a freak accident and at the same time a teen supermodel falls dead from a brain anureysm. So, what are doctors to do? Brain transplant of course! (yes sarcasm...) Ok really though that had me intrigued, but it just could have been better. I know, I'm no author, but guh...this just ended so badly. And she honestly goes back to her old school as the supermodel trying to reclaim the love of her life? Riiighhhhttt...she's loaded (over 300k in her savings) and goes back to school? Haha, and she's supposed to keep up the contracts of the model or else her parents have to pay 2 million in doctors fees? Uh-huh. I was really miffed at the ending. I kept thinking, wow, like this could get any worse, I waited this whole time for this ending? When...dun dun dun...the second book comes out in May 09 and the third in 2010. So...of course like the sucker I am I will be reading them I'm sure. Because I have to know what happens...yeah cause I'm that big of an idiot.
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February 22, 2025it's been a tough week and i needed the nostalgic comfort. also meg cabot was so ahead of her time with this series.
September 23, 2018
The beginning of the series can be a bit tough sometimes. In this story two girls die at the same time. One is a hot model who is brain dead and the other is an average teenager who has a tv crush her. Yep, I get the symbolism.
Anyway, they transplant the teen’s brain into the model’s body. You kinda have to suspend your logic for this one and just enjoy Meg Cabot’s writing.
Of course the message is not exactly healthy for young girls and their self esteem but you kinda have to let the moral message go, too. Regular teen=one friend who never moves you out of the friendzone and kisses you. Super model teen=hot boys coming out of the woodwork complete with lots of love and kisses. Who has the best life?
So I’m looking forward to the next book. I think its setting up for an adventure.
Anyway, they transplant the teen’s brain into the model’s body. You kinda have to suspend your logic for this one and just enjoy Meg Cabot’s writing.
Of course the message is not exactly healthy for young girls and their self esteem but you kinda have to let the moral message go, too. Regular teen=one friend who never moves you out of the friendzone and kisses you. Super model teen=hot boys coming out of the woodwork complete with lots of love and kisses. Who has the best life?
So I’m looking forward to the next book. I think its setting up for an adventure.
July 10, 2020
It's like my worst dream and my worst nightmare rolled into one: I get into an accident and my body is destroyed, so they transplant my BRAIN . . . dun dun DUN! Into the body of a supermodel! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!
But seriously, I love Meg Cabot! I've had this book on my to-read shelf for years, but just haven't gotten around to it . . . and now there's a global pandemic and I need a distraction, and oh, look! the library's online catalog has the audiobook! Perfect type of book, at the perfect time!
But seriously, I love Meg Cabot! I've had this book on my to-read shelf for years, but just haven't gotten around to it . . . and now there's a global pandemic and I need a distraction, and oh, look! the library's online catalog has the audiobook! Perfect type of book, at the perfect time!
May 12, 2017
2,5*
Είμαι απογοητευμένη!
Το θέμα του βιβλίου μου φάνηκε αρκετά πρωτότυπο, το ότι μπλέκει δηλαδή τον χώρο της μόδας με την επιστημονική φαντασία, αλλά η ροή της ιστορίας με απογοήτευσε.
Μέχρι να φτάσει στο γεγονός, που γύρο από αυτό εκτυλίσσετε όλο το βιβλίο, υπάρχει μπόλικη περιέργεια για που θα καταλήξει η συγγραφέας και μένεις με ανοιχτό το στόμα μετά από τις αποκαλύψεις (αυτό γίνεται στο πρώτο 1/3 του βιβλίου) αλλά μετά δεν υπάρχει κάποια εξέλιξη. Είναι βεβαία ενδιαφέρον ότι δυο άκρως αντίθετοι άνθρωποι, από όλες τις απόψεις, όπως η Εμ Γουάτς και η Νίκι Χάουαρντ καταλήγουν μαζί, αλλά το τέλος είναι τόσο απότομο και χωρίς κάτι συνταρακτικό ώστε να αγωνιάς για το επόμενο βιβλίο.
Είμαι απογοητευμένη!
Το θέμα του βιβλίου μου φάνηκε αρκετά πρωτότυπο, το ότι μπλέκει δηλαδή τον χώρο της μόδας με την επιστημονική φαντασία, αλλά η ροή της ιστορίας με απογοήτευσε.
Μέχρι να φτάσει στο γεγονός, που γύρο από αυτό εκτυλίσσετε όλο το βιβλίο, υπάρχει μπόλικη περιέργεια για που θα καταλήξει η συγγραφέας και μένεις με ανοιχτό το στόμα μετά από τις αποκαλύψεις (αυτό γίνεται στο πρώτο 1/3 του βιβλίου) αλλά μετά δεν υπάρχει κάποια εξέλιξη. Είναι βεβαία ενδιαφέρον ότι δυο άκρως αντίθετοι άνθρωποι, από όλες τις απόψεις, όπως η Εμ Γουάτς και η Νίκι Χάουαρντ καταλήγουν μαζί, αλλά το τέλος είναι τόσο απότομο και χωρίς κάτι συνταρακτικό ώστε να αγωνιάς για το επόμενο βιβλίο.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 21, 2020
The whole point of this book? What happens when you get knocked out by a T.V. and you wake up in a model's body. Yeah I know right. And now all the hottest boys are following you everywhere. EVERYWHERE! Could this book get any better? My answer: NEVER.
PARENT NOTE: Friends of Nikki Howard's getting drunk. Scar on head. Talks about dress slipping off chest accidentally. Intense kissing. Going to a club.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: 13 at youngest.
VIOLENCE: Not any that I remember.
ROMANCE: Intense kissing, but otherwise clean.
SWEARING: Massive. You can't get through a chapter without 2 swear words minimum.
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PARENT NOTE: Friends of Nikki Howard's getting drunk. Scar on head. Talks about dress slipping off chest accidentally. Intense kissing. Going to a club.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: 13 at youngest.
VIOLENCE: Not any that I remember.
ROMANCE: Intense kissing, but otherwise clean.
SWEARING: Massive. You can't get through a chapter without 2 swear words minimum.
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February 20, 2016
Oh my gosh, I loved this book so much! This is my first Meg Cabot book and it was amazing. I loved the main character, she's a lot like me, she was very relatable. This book was so fun. This is definitely one of my favorite books of 2015. I need to read the second book :) Stay tuned for reviews.
January 21, 2024
middle school me was obsessed with this (3.5)
July 11, 2016
DNF @59%
MEHH ...
“Well,' I said. 'I could strip off my clothes and reveal to you that under my jeans and sweatshirt I'm actually wearing a tank top and short-shorts, much like Lara Croft from Tomb Raider...only mine are flame-retardant and covered in glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers.'
No one stirred. Not even Christopher, who actually has a thing for Lara Croft.
'I know what you're thinking,' I went on. 'Glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers are so last year. But I think they add a certain je ne sais quoi to the whole ensemble. It's true, short-shorts are uncomfortable under jeans and hard to get off in the ladies' room, but they make the twin thigh-holsters in which I hold my high-caliber pistols so easy to get to....'
The oven timer dinged.
'Thank you, Em,' Mr. Greer said, yawning. 'That was very persuasive.”
MEHH ...
“Well,' I said. 'I could strip off my clothes and reveal to you that under my jeans and sweatshirt I'm actually wearing a tank top and short-shorts, much like Lara Croft from Tomb Raider...only mine are flame-retardant and covered in glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers.'
No one stirred. Not even Christopher, who actually has a thing for Lara Croft.
'I know what you're thinking,' I went on. 'Glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers are so last year. But I think they add a certain je ne sais quoi to the whole ensemble. It's true, short-shorts are uncomfortable under jeans and hard to get off in the ladies' room, but they make the twin thigh-holsters in which I hold my high-caliber pistols so easy to get to....'
The oven timer dinged.
'Thank you, Em,' Mr. Greer said, yawning. 'That was very persuasive.”
August 16, 2021
i feel like this is the sort of book i would have loved and cherished when i was in middle school: now that i’m older, i can see some of the flaws that it encompasses. for one, almost the entire plot, dialogue, and main character’s thoughts are based entirely on stereotypes. em watts is definitely a “not like the other girls” kind of character - she’s a tomboy who likes video games and detests the popular kids at school, who hate her right back. she pretends not to enjoy celebrity gossip like her little sister, yet somehow finds herself reading all of her teen magazines cover to cover anyways. the rich people are gorgeous yet dumb. somehow, though, i found myself really enjoying the book anyways. perhaps it’s my deeply rooted love for ‘celebrity’ stories. it’s hard to say, but it was a quick and easy read (although i wish i’d known going into it that it was part of a series!)
July 4, 2017
I feel like this had sooo much potential, but it felt a bit all over the place in terms of pacing, and plot. Also, it takes aaages for stuff to happen and then the book abruptly finishes. It's a trilogy, but I don't think I'll be reading the next two.
June 18, 2011
What do you expect when you read a book titled "Airhead"? Something light, a book which you can just breeze through without much complications. That's exactly what you get when you read "Airhead", a book more along the lines of a teen drama flick. In fact after reading this book that's exactly how I felt, I felt like I just finished watching a teen flick. The characters are all stereotypical, the popular girls posse, the not so popular girl who likes to play video games instead of trying on makeup, a wannabe sister and a clueless boy best friend, could it be more cliche. Then comes the terrible accident that changes the protagonists life forever, which turns her from a nobody to a supermodel who is a somebody. I think the whole idea of a brain transplant that led to this particular predicament is pretty far fetched,but you can't expect logic in books with such themes. The protagonist Emerson I found as a bit hypocritical, the way she hated fashion and anyone who chose to love them (whom she interestingly referred to as the Walking dead) changed when she got a first hand experience of what it felt like to be a fashion idol. The opinion she was holding to her entire life changed just like that when people started treating her differently, who knows may be the body also had a part in changing mind's perspective. All the other characters also have there set of flaws but that doesn't hinder the capability of this book to entertain you owing to the brisk story telling pace. Although the hospital scenes dragged and on a 190 page book that's saying something. But I wouldn't write off this book just yet. It is thoroughly entertaining as a one time read and would recommend it to anyone who just wants to pass time in case their TV is not working.
June 16, 2018
Another cute and fun Meg Cabot read.
The characters in this book were interesting to read about. Em is your typical nerdy girl, has 1 best friend, hates the popular kids, and is pretty nice. Nikki is a famous supermodel but used to getting her way and not thankful. I liked seeing Em (in Nikki's body) be nice to people and shock them all. Lulu was way cute and a good best friend. I liked Gabriel the best, she should definitely break up with Brandon. The fact that shes being spied on is very interesting, hopefully there will be more about that next book. This book was a light read and I was happy to read it again.
The characters in this book were interesting to read about. Em is your typical nerdy girl, has 1 best friend, hates the popular kids, and is pretty nice. Nikki is a famous supermodel but used to getting her way and not thankful. I liked seeing Em (in Nikki's body) be nice to people and shock them all. Lulu was way cute and a good best friend. I liked Gabriel the best, she should definitely break up with Brandon. The fact that shes being spied on is very interesting, hopefully there will be more about that next book. This book was a light read and I was happy to read it again.
August 2, 2016
Source: I own this book.
Cost: Unknown
Title: Airhead
Series: Airhead #1
Author: Meg Cabot
Overall Rating: 4 stars
Meg Cabot is one of my favourite authors for her sense of humour and quirky storylines, and I found that this book fit the perfect trope of her writing style. The book is intelligently thought out with the whole spirit transfer thing and I find it so funny how Em and Nikki are very different from one another but how towards the end, Em begins to embrace being Nikki. I really hope that "Nikki" can make Chris like her more though, because he's definitely a character I want to see more from!
Cost: Unknown
Title: Airhead
Series: Airhead #1
Author: Meg Cabot
Overall Rating: 4 stars
Meg Cabot is one of my favourite authors for her sense of humour and quirky storylines, and I found that this book fit the perfect trope of her writing style. The book is intelligently thought out with the whole spirit transfer thing and I find it so funny how Em and Nikki are very different from one another but how towards the end, Em begins to embrace being Nikki. I really hope that "Nikki" can make Chris like her more though, because he's definitely a character I want to see more from!
February 24, 2009
Ekkkhhh. I'm on the last disc, thank goodness. I have thoroughly enjoyed some of Meg Cabot's other books, but this one was written as if it were truly for airheads. (i.e. Simple elements in the plot are explained way too much.)
April 2, 2015
Completely ridiculous and you have to suspend all belief to get through it, but yet somehow I still enjoyed it. Sometimes you just need a book like this.
October 7, 2016
Adorei o livro, foi uma leitura que valeu imenso a pena. Parti para a leitura deste livro sem saber nada, nem mesmo a sinopse, mas como gosto bastante da autora e me apetecia ler um livro dela escolhi este. Foi, sem dúvida, uma ótima escolha. Adorei a premissa do livro, embora não seja muito original. Gostei, também, bastante da construção das personagens. Não são aquelas personagens fortes, são cheias de defeitos, mas acho que é isso que as torna únicas e bastante interessantes.
June 27, 2018
Meg Cabot books are always fun to read!
I wasn't expecting a sci fi kind of book and it totally surprised me! The concept was cool but it was getting a little bit boring toward the middle. I will continue the series to see where this is going!
I wasn't expecting a sci fi kind of book and it totally surprised me! The concept was cool but it was getting a little bit boring toward the middle. I will continue the series to see where this is going!
July 1, 2008
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, 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 Forever Princess and Queen of Babble Gets Hitched 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.
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 Forever Princess and Queen of Babble Gets Hitched 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.
April 21, 2016
Emerson is what you would consider a geek. If you’re into labels that is. Her life is as normal as can be. Straight As, gaming sessions with her best friend Justin, and constant arguments with her sister, how normal can you be? When accompanying her sister to the grand opening of mega-store Stark, her life ends and her new one begins. Because as soon as she wakes up, she’s in Nikki Howard’s body, the teen supermodel that is the face of Stark industries.
I was looking forward to this trilogy. I love Meg Cabot, and her Princess Diaries series, and also her Mediator series so I knew I had to get this one read. Sadly I was disappointed. This had so much potential. I thought the body transfer story would be worthy of a great read, but I was mistaken. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m older and more critical than normal, but I just wasn’t feeling the story-line. It felt highly unrealistic as to what happens to her and I was hoping for something a lot more creative.
It also doesn’t help when the main character tends to annoy me with her constant whining about makeup and clothes like it’s a concept she can’t understand. I also thought there were way too many boy characters and I get how they all come to be, but I just didn’t think they were necessary.
Characters
Good cast of characters.
Pacing/Length
Stop and go and a little slow.
Cover/Design
Nice and it does convey the story.
Plot
Interesting enough to hold my attention.
Overall, a cute story but I wanted more!
I was looking forward to this trilogy. I love Meg Cabot, and her Princess Diaries series, and also her Mediator series so I knew I had to get this one read. Sadly I was disappointed. This had so much potential. I thought the body transfer story would be worthy of a great read, but I was mistaken. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m older and more critical than normal, but I just wasn’t feeling the story-line. It felt highly unrealistic as to what happens to her and I was hoping for something a lot more creative.
It also doesn’t help when the main character tends to annoy me with her constant whining about makeup and clothes like it’s a concept she can’t understand. I also thought there were way too many boy characters and I get how they all come to be, but I just didn’t think they were necessary.
Characters
Good cast of characters.
Pacing/Length
Stop and go and a little slow.
Cover/Design
Nice and it does convey the story.
Plot
Interesting enough to hold my attention.
Overall, a cute story but I wanted more!
January 14, 2012
Meg Cabot is back with her new book Airhead- her first teen book with Scholastic and it's definitely a change from previous novels. While it's not exactly supernatural, you could say the book is a new age science fiction mixed with chick lit. In Airhead, Emerson Watts- Em for short- is forced by her mother to take her fourteen year old sister Frida to the new Stark Megastore opening so she could meet new hit singer-songwriter Gabriel Luna. But disaster hits- literally- and Emerson wakes up to find that she isn't who she thinks she is and finds that she has become model Nikki Howards. With out giving away the whole plot line, we can't tell you what happens but we can say that it surely isn't a spirit transfer no matter how much F.O.N (Friend of Nikki's) LuLu Collins swears that it's true. But now Em has to deal with being a supermodel, juggling boyfriends, and getting her best friend Christopher to realize that she is still Em. This story truly defines what a search-for-self novel really is.
This story is different than any other Meg Cabot book you've read before. If you're a fan of The Mediator or the 1-800 series, then you'll enjoy this book. While- like mentioned before- it isn't supernatural, you're sure to like this especially if you like to read glamour books. Although it isn't like her normal reads, it still has that Meg Cabot touch that you will find familiar. If Airhead is a sign to come then I can't wait for Abandon.
This story is different than any other Meg Cabot book you've read before. If you're a fan of The Mediator or the 1-800 series, then you'll enjoy this book. While- like mentioned before- it isn't supernatural, you're sure to like this especially if you like to read glamour books. Although it isn't like her normal reads, it still has that Meg Cabot touch that you will find familiar. If Airhead is a sign to come then I can't wait for Abandon.
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