Meg Cabot: Airhead
I'm a little late reading Airhead by Meg Cabot, but it took forever to get it from my library (now I'm on the very long waiting list for the sequel).
Synopsis:
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.
If I had to sum this book up in one word, it would be: weird.
I expected to read a frothy, fun book and got a weird mad scientist book. I literally said out loud, "A brain transplant? COME ON!"
It was a frustrating thing to happen to the character Emerson, but it was also a frustrating for me as a reader. I still can't figure out how, only one month after her sister's death and this weird transplant, Frida was just so bubbly and happy about everything. I'd be a wreck if my sister died. I'd be more than a little wigged out by her brain still living on in someone else's body. Celebrity status and teen heartthrobs be damned!
Once I was able to get past all of that and settle into the story, it was interesting-- watching a tomboy struggle with vanity and an everyday person struggle with fame.
I'm curious to see what happens next, but I still find the whole brain transplant angle over the top.
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