Most of what I had to say on this series, I said in answer to Twilight. I love this story; it's an indulgence in comfortable escapism for me. The writing took a lot for me to get over - at least 100 pages of the first book, far more than I would have put up with if a friend hadn't been so fired-up for me to read and love this - but in the end something about the story won out. It's comfortable in the way that cheesy sitcoms and sappy movies are... it's giving up the real world for something that's nice to curl up in for a while.
This was the first book for younger-than-teen-ish kids I'd read of Meg Cabot's, and I wasn't quite sure what I'd think of it. Totally loved it, though! The story was not predictable and the writing was very enjoyable. Good stuff, and I'm looking forward to reading more of the series.
This book didn't grab me right at the start, but it wasn't bad, and it was a fairly solid read. “solid” seems the best word for it. I enjoyed it, and there were quite a few things I took away to think about after I'd read it.
I very much enjoyed this book, but what seemed to me to be inconsistencies in tense (sometimes past, sometimes present) really distracted me. The switches in tense may have been correct for when each bit was set in the time frame of the moment; I lost track, so I'm not sure. Either way, though I found it very distracting from an otherwise quite enjoyable read. Four stars but for the distraction.
