Airhead | 
| Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Point
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 9542
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0545040523
EAN: 9780545040525
ASIN: 0545040523
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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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? One bizarre accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. Literally. Now getting her best friend, Christopher, to notice that she’s actually a girl is the least of Em’s problems. But what Em’s pretty sure she’ll never be able to accept might just turn out to be the one thing that’s going to make her dream come true?. NIKKI HOWARD IS HERE TO STAY.
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Great...until the ending July 16, 2008
You wouldn't think that I, who generally looks down on chick lit and romance novels, would be a big fan of Meg Cabot. But I really am, because she has such a funny and engaging style and also makes sure that the main plot of her books is more than a girl in love with a guy. And such is the case with Airhead.
I was actually very excited for this book, so excited that I sat down and listened to the book on tape (the actual book itself being unavailable to me from my local library at the moment) in one day, not being able to stop. Normally this doesn't happen with books on tape, as I use them as "background noise" while completing other tasks. But once I heard Airhead was a SCI-FI chick lit, I had to read it, and I found Em's story a hilarious and fascinating journey.
Until, of course, I got to the end, when I felt like I'd been dropped on my head. I'm very used to the basic layout of a Meg Cabot novel: they nearly always end with the main girl getting together with the guy. *SPOILER* Of course, this one DIDN'T. Rather, it ended with her bringing pizza to her parents, which, while a nice enough ending, wasn't quite what I was expecting. *END SPOILER* I personally liked Em's crush/best friend Christopher far more than any of the other guys in the book (yes, even the English singer-songwriter Gabriel) and I was really rooting for her to finally be able to be with him. Alas, it wasn't to be...at least not in THIS book. Word is, this is actually going to be a series, which is why I'm not giving it a lower rating.
In short, this is a fun book to read, especially if you are a nerd of the sort Em is and can easily identify with her and her new predicament. However, beware: this isn't exactly a stereotypical Meg Cabot novel. I await the next installment of Em's story with great impatience.
 You're telling me this isn't "sci-fi"?? July 15, 2008
At first I thought that Em would wake up in the end to find it all a dream and I knew that it would be a huge disapointment if that was to happen. But I had no idea the author was going to go in the Science Fiction direction. It was comical and cute but so far fetched that it was hard to really feel the character. As for the ending, waking up from a bad dream would have MUCH better than the chosen ending. I listed to the book on CD and when I heard "the end" I thought it was a joke, I couldn't even believe how it ended, with so many loose ends still hanging!
Don't get your hopes up, it's cute and witty but it sci-fi with an ending that makes you feel like you walked smack into a brick wall.
 Enchanting YA Review: Airhead July 4, 2008
AIRHEAD
MEG CABOT
Rating: 5 Enchantments
Sixteen year old Emerson Watts could never imagine that taking her younger sister to the grand opening of the new Stark mega store to see singer and heart throb Gabriel Luna would change her life forever. But when a plasma screen is about to come crashing down on her younger sister who's too busy heading for teenage supermodel Nikki Howard to notice, Em rushes over to push her sister out of the way of the falling object. The next thing she knows, Em's waking up in a hospital bed. And that's when things really start to get odd, because as she'll soon find out, Emerson Watts is dead.
I adored Em right from the start of the book; she's your typical teenager, a bit of an outsider at her high school and sorta crushing on her geeky best friend who doesn't seem to notice she's a girl. But when the craziness starts, Em struggles to deal with the fact she's now become part of something she saw on one of those Discovery channel surgery shows that people said was light years away from actually happening and that the only person outside of her family she cares about, thinks she's dead. She can't exactly tell him the truth either. Plus she has to try and fit into Nikki's life, part of the conditions of her getting the surgery in the first place.
I loved the scene when Em is `kidnapped' from the hospital by Nikki's friends Lulu and Brandon, who think she's really Nikki Howard. As Em tries to adjust to hanging out with people she's only seen in magazines, she's also trying to get them to believe what happened. That she really isn't Nikki Howard, that she's Emerson Watts trapped inside Nikki's body.
AIRHEAD is a fabulous read by Ms. Cabot. Em's predicament makes a humorous, page turning read. AIRHEAD is one of my must read novels of 2008. I can't wait to read the sequel, BECOMING NIKKI. Check out Meg's website at <[...]>
Lisa
Enchanting Reviews
May 2008
Meg Cabot does sci-fi? June 30, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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: A Novel, 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 Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess (Princess Diaries) and Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Queen of Babble) 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.
Best Meg Cabot Book June 23, 2008
This book was great. It was filled with detail and hooked me on every chapter. I would recommend this book to everyone I know,and I would defenatly buy the sequal. GO BUY THIS BOOK!!!
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