A review by tetromino
Airhead by Meg Cabot
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? No
3.0
This book is so fucking funny in a problematic way, it gets three stars for pure entertainment value. I took so many screenshots of this book to send to people while I was reading it. The main girl is transplanted into the body of a supermodel and spends most of the book bemoaning how vapid and lame this dead supermodel girl must have been while also enjoying all the privileges afforded to her now that she's in her body. Proceeds to call the dead supermodel, Nikki, a skank multiple times and yet is also totally down to kiss all of the guys she thought Nikki was a skank for kissing. Incredible. If she ever registers the hypocrisy of this, it's not in THIS book.
Moments so funny/terrible I had to screenshot them to send to people:
- One of Nikki's boyfriends forces himself on her despite her saying 'no' and when he says 'i know you want it' she's like haha so true, I do! What kind of message for kids...
- Calling some dude's vespa the "least cool mode of transportation" and "effeminate", as if a vespa isn't like a total dreamboat vehicle to own!?
- Priding herself as the only girl who is smart enough to recognize that her best friend is a potential hottie despite his long hair, lol
- Baffling kiss scene where she talks about "where her boobs are gonna be later" and I still don't know what she could possibly be talking about. Where are they going? Why are you not "able to stop them from being there."
- Random jab at her friend by implying she looks like a male prostitute she saw once--leave him alone he's just trying to earn a living.
- She poured a drink on a boy with a one-liner and everbody clapped
- Talking way too long about sweatpants
- Being totally excited that her best friend is depressed after her death because it meant he was in love with her and it's "the most romantic thing I'd ever heard!"
Moments so funny/terrible I had to screenshot them to send to people:
- One of Nikki's boyfriends forces himself on her despite her saying 'no' and when he says 'i know you want it' she's like haha so true, I do! What kind of message for kids...
- Calling some dude's vespa the "least cool mode of transportation" and "effeminate", as if a vespa isn't like a total dreamboat vehicle to own!?
- Priding herself as the only girl who is smart enough to recognize that her best friend is a potential hottie despite his long hair, lol
- Baffling kiss scene where she talks about "where her boobs are gonna be later" and I still don't know what she could possibly be talking about. Where are they going? Why are you not "able to stop them from being there."
- Random jab at her friend by implying she looks like a male prostitute she saw once--leave him alone he's just trying to earn a living.
- She poured a drink on a boy with a one-liner and everbody clapped
- Talking way too long about sweatpants
- Being totally excited that her best friend is depressed after her death because it meant he was in love with her and it's "the most romantic thing I'd ever heard!"