[fiction] The Boy Next Door

29Aug08

By: Meggin Cabot (Author of Princess’ Diaries)

This was a really good read especially after all that after-drama sadness and sighing after watching 5cm per Second. That was a really, really depressing anime. But now with this hilarious book we’ve got smiles. It was a little lighthearted and a way to well planned. I loved it all the way. Not only that to my surprise I thought the first page was like one of those dumb things on the beginning that I don’t really care about personally XD. Like some publisher advertising lol.

As the semi title says (barely read on the cover) “there’s nothing average about: The Boy Next Door”. True to it’s word, it’s not about teenagers doing stupid dramatic things, but it’s more on the line of e-mails in co-workers and such. In fact the whole story is about e-mails. Comes to show how many people you can meet in a month just by exchanging mail at work (a.k.a slacking off but George for some reason doesn’t say much until they all gather up in the ladies’ room all at the same time XD. Funny how no one gets fired).

Mel doesn’t appear at work one day because her 80 year old neighbour is knocked out and into a coma. The old woman’s only relative is her son Max Friedlander — a famous fashion photographer. As soon as taking care of the dog’s and cats in Mrs. Friedlander’s while she’s in a coma starts deeply affecting her work-life and such she decides to call up Max and ask him to come take care of them. Max at the moment is having an extended vacation with the supermodel named Vivica. So Max decides to ask his friend John (who owes him for saving him back then and when from a girl) to take care of the dogs and pretend that he himself is “Max”. But soon the fake Max (John) and Mel fall madly in love. How will he tell her he’s not the Max she thought he was?

As you can see I got my hands on the FIRST EDITION. Not that great seeing how the cover looks kinda bad. But it’s interesting. And… well now that I think about (in the library I was thinking the same thing) that I hadn’t actually read a book about “a boy being nextdoor” . So I took it.

It was really interesting. Dramatic nice, well done, crude at points but hey I can live with crude humour any day. (I’m a little like that myself haha). I love how the characters never ever know what anyone else is saying. Heh, loving that cheap laziness with the Zabar’s prepared-food section. XD. It’s hilarious really. The e-mails are the funniest things ever XD. And the way it all wraps up beautiful and turns around in the matter of two simple pages?

If the message of the story was to show how much e-mails can do to someone and run your life? I guess Meggin got that across XD. This was lots of fun to read. Thanks Meg♥. I guess I’m a sucker for humor XD.

Mark: 10/10

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