Boy Meets Girl (Boy, #2)

by Meg Cabot

Meet Kate MacKenzie…idealistic office worker, reluctant deliverer of termination notices and queen of instant messaging. As sweet as sugar.

Meet Mitch Hertzog…ever-smiling corporate lawyer, defender of the downtrodden and king of aborted dinner dates. Good enough to eat.

Meet Ida Lopez…cake, cookie and pastry-maker extraordinaire, purveyor of the dessert trolley and goddess of all things mouth-wateringly yummy. As nice as pie.

Together they must battle tyrants and despots to find truth, justice and the perfect double fudge pudding.

• ISBN10: 0330418874
• ISBN13: 9780330418874
• Publish Date: 6 February 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 26 June 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Pan Books
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

"What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is: Equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave.
So make it short."
(Mitchell Hertzog's voice mail)

The execution and formatting involved in creating Boy Meets Girl is impressive. The Boy Next Door was told only through emails, but Boy Meets Girl is told through emails, IM's, letters, to-do-lists, slips and random pieces of paper, journal entries, depositions and voice mails. To take a whole bunch of different ways of communication and put them in an ordered sequence to create a seamless story is amazing. Because of this, Boy Meets Girl is a more cohesive story than The Boy Next Door.

The personalities of the characters in Boy Meets Girl shine through their written forms of communication. All the characters in Boy Meets Girl, have different ways of talking and acting and this is relayed through what they write. No matter what type of communication method I was reading, I knew exactly which character wrote it.

I enjoyed the cameos from the characters that we met The Boy Next Door. It was nice to catch up on what's going on in their lives.

We also get to meet to some new characters. These characters are stereotypical Meg Cabot characters, but in typical Meg Cabot fashion, they are extremely entertaining. The highlight of Boy Meets Girl is witnessing the dysfunctional family dynamics of the Hertzog siblings. They are hilarious! Also, Stuart is such a jerk.

There is also a side plot apart from the main plot and sub plot that deals with Janice/Sean, one of the Hertzog siblings, coming to terms with her sexual identity. However, Boy Meets Girl is a light-hearted, chick-lit romance, so this side plot isn't fully developed, but I appreciate that it's dealt with humour and heart.

Meg Cabot's book might have a similar formula, the same type of drama and characters who have the same personalities as characters from her other books with different names, but I will never stop loving her chick-lit romances. Her stories are hilarious and entertaining. It's difficult not to enjoy the moments spent reading them.