Boy meets Girl 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.

• 383 pages
• published in 2004

This book was definitely different. I picked it up from the library (and mind me, we're in Germany. They only have half a shelf for English books in the Teen section and a whole shelf in the Adult section. I prefer to read in English, simply because sometimes the translations just suck and I don't want to end up hating a perfectly good book just because the translator was too stupid to do their job right.) and it was do different from what I was expecting. It was completely made up of e-mails, diary entries, IM conversations and such things but I loved it! It was easy to follow the story even though you only had snippets from here and there. And it was a really cute and fluffy story, about love but also about doing the right thing. It wasn't completely focused on being a romance novel even though the title proposes that.

This book didn't have a definite point of view. There were emails from everybody so you kind of had the POV of everybody once in a while. And it was so easy to see how the person actually is when they email a person they don't have to impress or a person they are not lying to. It was really interesting to read that. I also liked how the characters were portrayed even though it was a little harder to get to know them. I hoped to have a follow up of them but the third book in the series is about different people. And I didn't know this was the second book of a series, since the books don't actually have anything to do with each other. You don't have to read the first to read this one. It doesn't matter.


I really liked the way this novel was made but that may not be fitting for everybody. So if you are interest in reading this book, you should decide if you are okay with reading mails, chats and diary entries instead of an actual story divided in chapters and views.

I rate it 4 out of 5 stars, it was a quick and cute read for inbetween.