A review by joradora
Airhead by Meg Cabot
3.0
I make it a point to re-read Meg Cabot books every few months or so. Usually I stick with my favorites, like the Mediator series, the Heather Wells mysteries, or the boy books. This is my first re-read of the Airhead series because, well, I don't know. I enjoyed it the first time around, but lately I've been thinking a lot about conspiracies (what can I say, it's close to NaNoWriMo) and this series keeps coming back to me as a research subject.
While there are hints of conspiracy I the first book, Airhead, I remember that the majority of that is yet to come in the next two books. airhead focuses more on the character development, making the concept of a body exchange plausible, setting the stage, and dropping little hints along the way. In fact, unlike most of Meg's series, this first book cannot stand alone without being continued in the next books, as nothing of importance, no plot, really, occurs after the inciting incident. That's not to say it's not a good read. Meg Cabot, as always, entertains. As a re-reader, I know what comes next and I know I want to get there. The lack of plot works, in this case, by the length of the book, which only took me about 6 hours to get through.
While there are hints of conspiracy I the first book, Airhead, I remember that the majority of that is yet to come in the next two books. airhead focuses more on the character development, making the concept of a body exchange plausible, setting the stage, and dropping little hints along the way. In fact, unlike most of Meg's series, this first book cannot stand alone without being continued in the next books, as nothing of importance, no plot, really, occurs after the inciting incident. That's not to say it's not a good read. Meg Cabot, as always, entertains. As a re-reader, I know what comes next and I know I want to get there. The lack of plot works, in this case, by the length of the book, which only took me about 6 hours to get through.